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An Assessment Of The Decision-Making Units' Efficiency In Service Systems, Maoloud Yakhlif Dabab
An Assessment Of The Decision-Making Units' Efficiency In Service Systems, Maoloud Yakhlif Dabab
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Most tools and models of performance and quality of service management are generic and do not solve complex technical systems. The critical components of the system need such tools to assess their efficiency to make a better decision about them. One of the primary objectives in the service systems is to improve the ability of efficiency, effectiveness, and sustainability of critical assets. One of the challenges with improving critical assets is the amount of major capital spending needed to upgrade a technology infrastructure with a high obsolescence rate. This along with usage and reliability issues, makes evaluating mobile cells to …
Bayesian Inquiry: An Approach To The Use Of Experts, King G. Yee
Bayesian Inquiry: An Approach To The Use Of Experts, King G. Yee
Dissertations and Theses
Subjective information is a valuable resource; however, decisionmakers often ignore it because of difficulties in eliciting it from assessors. This thesis is on Bayesian inquiry and it presents an approach to eliciting subjective information from assessors. Based on the concepts of cascaded inference and Bayesian statistics, the approach is designed to reveal to the decision-maker the way in which the assessor considers his options and the reasons he has for selecting particular alternatives. Unlike previous works on cascaded inferences, the approach here focuses on incoherency. Specifically, it employs the use of additional information to revise and check the estimates. The …