Management applications

摘要

This session presents four papers dealing with models for use by upper management. The first evaluation of simulation as a tool for corporate financial planning, and includes a discussion optimization models. This is followed by a description of a general university simulation program for the study of resource allocation and utilization problems. The final two papers are concerned with gas utilities. One deals with the relationships between rate, revenue, and cost of service; the other with the investment problems facing gas pipeline companies.