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Complexities in educational management, inherent in the strategic planning of multiple alternatives as well as the tactical control of limited resources, encourage a continued restructuring and export of industrial engineering methods for the educational domain. Such engineering methods, defined broadly as operations research or mathematical modeling techniques, provide a valuable diversity of technical approaches to organizing, analyzing, and interpreting the vast amounts of data stored in electronic management information systems. Given the availability of technology in the forms of high-speed personal computers and low-cost decision modeling software, competing alternative decisions may readily be simulated in order to measure each alternative’s impact upon the operating policy in an educational governance system.
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Wholeben, B.E. (1995). Interactive simulation for planning, coordination and control: Mathematical decision support systems in education. In: Barta, BZ., Telem, M., Gev, Y. (eds) Information Technology in Educational Management. ITEM 1994. IFIP Advances in Information and Communication Technology. Springer, Boston, MA. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-0-387-34839-1_22
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