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Surveys the technology of knowledge based systems, or knowledge engineering, to identify potential military applications.
Military satellite communication systems will cost taxpayers billions of dollars. The magnitude of these costs and their distribution in the economy will be directly affected by whether public policymakers choose to lease or to buy these systems.
This Note describes MH, the electronic mail system on Text Processors 1, 2, and 3 that allows users to send and receive messages while logged on to a computer or text processor.
This Note is the final report of an assessment study to determine the applicability of operations research, artificial intelligence, and expert systems to logistics problems for the space station, which must support multiple systems using only on-boa...
This paper endeavors to provide policy-relevant information that may be used in the continuing public debate regarding the "appropriate" government role in the expanding telecommunications industry.
The Rand Strategy Assessment Center's (RSAC) automated wargaming system includes computer programs that act as agents for Red (Soviet Union) and Blue (United States). Both Red and Blue Agent programs consist of hierarchical levels of rule-based model...
Describes a large-scale program melding rule-based modeling and traditional simulation in the problem domain of game-structured military strategic analysis in the RAND Strategy Assessment Center.
Because of the essential nature of information in the affairs of society, governments, and institutions, computer- and communications-based systems are creating new aspects of personal privacy threats. This paper, originally presented as the keynote ...
... tests the contention that the commercial sector consistently manages acquisition programs better than the military.
This report describes how computer-based information technology was introduced into one white-collar work setting, and explores the consequences to employees and the organization.
In the last decade, lighting in the City of San Diego and its suburbs has increased substantially. Astronomers at Palomar Observatory are concerned that the encroaching light will make many of their measurements impossible. San Diego will soon conver...
Assesses the current state of knowledge about the effect of television station group ownership in order to assist the Commission in its deliberations.
Includes bibliographical references....
In this study the authors consider ways to more effectively transfer to potential users the knowledge produced by federally funded research in science and technology. Federal policymakers are concerned that the information created through the billion...
This study empirically documents instructional practice with microcomputers early in the history of the technology's implementation in public schools.
This Note develops an analytic model of the behavior of producers of intellectual property (e.g. books and journals, computer software, pre-recorded videocassettes) when a technology that permits private copying is introduced.
The interference problems faced by nongeostationary satellites may be of major significance. A general discussion indicates the scope of the problems and describes several configurations of importance. Computer programs are described, which are empl...
This paper highlights, for those interested in advanced information science, some recent experience in RAND's Strategy Assessment Center (RSAC), a large-scale Department of Defense program to develop new concepts and techniques combining features ...
The RAND Strategy Assessment Center (RSAC) is a highly ambitious, multiyear research program to develop a system and methodology that combine the systematic reproducibility of analytic modeling/simulation with the behavioral richness of rule-based artificial intelligence technology.
This paper describes patterns of microcomputer use found among teachers nominated as "successful" at elementary and secondary mathematics and science instruction. The study focuses on the integration of microcomputers into the teaching process, and i...
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