Research and development of models and instruments to define, measure, and improve shared information processing with government oversight agencies. An analysis of the literature, August 1990--January 1992

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Professional managers from business and industry, and faculty, graduate students, and undergraduate students from a variety of engineering and other disciplines have participated in the research and development of these tools and techniques. The authors thank them for their good work The pronoun "I" is used throughout to separate all of us using management systems (we) from the authors (I). However, please recognize "I" is more than one contributor. The preparation of this document is funded by U.S. Department of Energy Special Research Grant No. DE-FG05-86DP70033. Management Systems Laboratories thanks the Department of Energy's O f f i c e of Nuclear Materials for providing us a real-world laboratory for the research, development, and testing of state-of-the-art management tools and the frameworks for understanding how to make them successful.