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Sidney I. Firstman — Publications

Sidney I. Firstman — Publications

Telecommunications in Urban Development

1969
Establishing Objectives, Measures, and Criteria for Multi-Phase Complementary Activities.

1965
Current Concepts and Issues of In-Space Support.

1964
Objectives, Measures of Effectiveness, and Criteria for Apollo Prelaunch Operations as They Affect Checkout Activities.

1963
Operations Research Applications in Support Planning for Manned Space Flight.

1963
Operational and human factors in planning automated man-machine checkout systems

1962
Automatic Checkout Equipment: Employment and Design Considerations.

1960
How much automaticity for checkout equipment.

1960
Operational design criteria for missile ground systems: readiness testing.

1960
Optimizing a prelaunch checkout.

1960
Standardization of automatic test and checkout equipment: a preliminary discussion.

1960
A vulnerability model for weapon sites with interdependent elements.

1960
The application of random sampling simulation to reliability estimating.

1959
An approximating algorithm for an optimum aim-points problem.

1959
Ballistic-missile payload allocation.

1959
Optimum search routines for automatic fault location.

1959
Monte Carlo models for estimating reliability: an exploratory analysis.

1958
Reliability Estimating by the Use of Random Sampling Simulation.

1958
A vulnerability model for weapon sites with interdependent elements

1957

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