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Author: Melvin Dresher
Publisher: RAND
Keywords: applications, theory, strategy, games
Number of Pages: 100
Published: 2007
ISBN-10: 0833042254
ISBN-13: 9780833042255
Games of Strategy: Theory and Applications, originally published by Prentice Hall in 1961, was written by Melvin Dresher, a RAND research mathematician, during the heyday of Game Theory at RAND. This book introduced readers to the basic concepts of game theory and its applications for military, economic, and political problems, as well as its usefulness in decisionmaking in business, operations research, and behavioral science. More than forty years after its first publication as a RAND research study, and to celebrate RAND
Author: Willis H. Ware
Publisher: RAND
Keywords: essays, vignettes, history, evolution, information, rand
Number of Pages: 100
Published: 2008
ISBN-10: 083304513X
ISBN-13: 9780833045133
This professional memoir describes RAND’s contributions to the evolution of computer science, particularly during the first decades following World War II, when digital computers succeeded slide rules, mechanical desk calculators, electric accounting machines, and analog computers. RAND’s accomplishments included important advances not only in hardware and software but also in analytic techniques that exploited the speed and power of computers. From the beginning, RAND researchers were focused on using computers to improve applied studies that addressed complex, real-world problems
Authors:James A. Leftwich, Robert S. Tripp, Amanda B. Gel
Publisher: RAND
Keywords: support, execution, planning, control, combat, architecture, expeditionary, aerospace, forces, operational, supporting
Number of Pages: 100
Published: 2003
ISBN-10: 0833031694
ISBN-13: 9780833031693
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Author: Keith Crane Nathan Chandler
Publisher: RAND
Keywords: opportunities, risks, euro, business, doing
Number of Pages: 100
Published: 2005
ISBN-10: 0833038869
ISBN-13: 9780833038869
On May 18, 2005, the RAND Corporation and the Delegation of the European Commission to the United States held a conference in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, on
Author: Stephen T. Hosmer S. O. Crane
Publisher: RAND
Keywords: april, symposium, counterinsurgency
Number of Pages: 100
Published: 2006
ISBN-10: 0833039830
ISBN-13: 9780833039835
This report is based on the Symposium on Counterinsurgency held at RAND
