Decision Line

September/October 1993
Volume 24(5)

President's Letter: by Larry P. Ritzman, Boston College

from the Editor:

  • Case-Based Reasoning and Its Implications on OR, by Uma G. Gupta, East Carolina University
  • How to Get Your PC Programs to Run Four to Five Times Faster Without Buying a New Computer!, by F. Robert Jacobs, Indiana University
  • The Value of a Second Opinion: The Relationship between the Expected Value of Sample Information (EVSI) and the Ahituv-Ronen Model, by Abraham Mehrez, Ben-Gurion University of the Negev and Kent State University, and Amiram Gafni, McMaster University
  • How Additional Information Leads to Superior Decisions for Rational Contestants, by Philip J. Mizzi and Thomas P. McWilliams, Arizona State University West

Information Technology: A Guided Tour of the 1993 SIM Annual Conference, by Lance Eliot, Feature Editor

Information Resources Management: Managing Enterprise Client/Server Systems, by Efraim Turban, California State University at Long Beach

In the Classroom: Random Samples and Confidence Intervals, by Rick Hesse, Feature Editor

Research Issues: Toward Scientific Progress of DSS Research, by Sean B. Eom, Southeast Missouri State University

Production/Operations Management: Measuring Academic Quality: The UK Experience, by Steve New, Manchester School of Management, UMIST

Software Review: The Final Review, by Barry Render, Rollins College

The Universal Specialist: The Lethargic Computer, Home Therapy and the Computer Doctor, by Andrew Vazsonyi, University of San Francisco, McLaren School of Business