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LOASBY, Brian John was born in 1930 in Kettering, Northamptonshire, England.
(The source selection process for choosing a contractor do...)
The source selection process for choosing a contractor does not incorporate a standardized objective decision analysis tool; therefore, the process is extremely subjective and provides little guidance to distinguish between highly competitive contractors. The Air Force Simplified Acquisition of Base Engineer Requirements (SABER) program selects contractors through a Low Price Technically Acceptable (LPTA) source selection process and encounters the same problem of not being able to objectively distinguish between the competing contractors. The LPTA process rank orders the contractors based on price and evaluates the bidders in order until an exceptional contractor is discovered. However, the SABER source selection committee members wish to evaluate all contractors using all decision criteria with the ability to objectively compare all contractors to one another. Since there are several factors and guidelines to consider when awarding a SABER contract, a value focused thinking approach was used to create a structured decision making model that takes into account all values along with their desired weighting as specified by members of a SABER source selection team. The model was then used to evaluate seven contractors who recently competed for a SABER contract and perform deterministic and sensitivity analysis on the recommended decision outcome. The results of this research illustrate the valuable insight and practicality of applying a quantitative, objective, consistent, and defendable tool for SABER source selections. The value gained from this model will potentially aid the SABER source selection process, as well as other government and private/public source selections.
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(The fundamental principles of the scientific method are e...)
The fundamental principles of the scientific method are essential for enhancing perspective, increasing productivity, and stimulating innovation. These principles include deductive and inductive logic, probability, parsimony and hypothesis testing, as well as science's presuppositions, limitations, ethics and bold claims of rationality and truth. The examples and case studies drawn upon in this book span the physical, biological and social sciences; include applications in agriculture, engineering and medicine; and also explore science's interrelationships with disciplines in the humanities such as philosophy and law. Informed by position papers on science from the American Association for the Advancement of Science, National Academy of Sciences and National Science Foundation, this book aligns with a distinctively mainstream vision of science. It is an ideal resource for anyone undertaking a systematic study of scientific method for the first time, from undergraduates to professionals in both the sciences and the humanities.
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(This two-volume work, first published in 1843, was John S...)
This two-volume work, first published in 1843, was John Stuart Mill's first major book. It reinvented the modern study of logic and laid the foundations for his later work in the areas of political economy, women's rights and representative government. In clear, systematic prose, Mill (1806-73) disentangles syllogistic logic from its origins in Aristotle and scholasticism and grounds it instead in processes of inductive reasoning. An important attempt at integrating empiricism within a more general theory of human knowledge, the work constitutes essential reading for anyone seeking a full understanding of Mill's thought. Volume 1 contains Mill's introduction, which elaborates upon his definition of logic as 'not the science of Belief, but the science of Proof, or Evidence'. It also features discussions of the central components of logical reasoning - propositions and syllogisms - in relation to Mill's theories of inductive reasoning and experimental method.
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(This two-volume work, first published in 1843, was John S...)
This two-volume work, first published in 1843, was John Stuart Mill's first major book. It reinvented the modern study of logic and laid the foundations for his later work in the areas of political economy, women's rights and representative government. In clear, systematic prose, Mill (1806-73) disentangles syllogistic logic from its origins in Aristotle and scholasticism and grounds it instead in processes of inductive reasoning. An important attempt at integrating empiricism within a more general theory of human knowledge, the work constitutes essential reading for anyone seeking a full understanding of Mill's thought. Continuing the discussion of induction, Volume 2 concludes with Book VI, 'On the Logic of the Moral Sciences', in which Mill applies empirical reasoning to human behaviour. A crucial early formulation of his thinking regarding free will and necessity, this book establishes the centrality of 'the social science' to Mill's philosophy.
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LOASBY, Brian John was born in 1930 in Kettering, Northamptonshire, England.
Bachelor, University Cambridge, England, 1952. Master of Letters, University Cambridge, England, 1958. Master of Arts, University Cambridge, 1998.
Doctor (honorary), University Stirling, 1998.
Assistant Political Economics, Bournville Research Fellow, University Aberdeen,
8, 1958-1961. Tutor, Management Studies, University Bristol, 1961-1967. Arthur D. Little Management Fellow, Arthur D. Little Incorporated, Cambridge, Massachusetts, United States of America, 1965-1966.
Lector, Senior Lector, Economics, Professor Management Economics, University Stirling,
8,1968-1971,1971-1984. Visiting Fellow, Oxford Centre Management Studies, 1974. Visiting Professor of Economics, University Stirling, Stirling, Scotland, since 1984.
Advisory Board, Managerial and Decision Economics, since 1980. Advisory Board,/. Economics Studies, since 1984.
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After an excursion into economic history, I investigated the location decisions of firms moving out of Birmingham, and some years later made a more detailed study of a major transfer from London (The Swindon Project). This work convinced me that managerial decisions should be analysed as processes: the identification (possibly incorrect) and the (restricted) search for solutions condition choice, and unexpected outcomes often generate new problems in a continuing cycle. Conventional theories of the firm addressed other questions.
On moving to Stirling I began to work with scientists who had experience of managing innovation, which they envisaged as a cyclic process, and heard of
T. S. Kuhn from a research student who identified the current paradigms of influential groups (within or outside the innovating organisation) as major
barriers to some innovations. A comparable barrier to the acceptance of non-optimising theories of the firm was obvious. Since then my primary twin interests have been in applying theories of the growth of knowledge to the history of economic thought (especially theories of the firm) and to decisionmaking in organisations.
My most recent work (still mostly unpublished) tries to use the concept of research programmes (or construction systems, from the American psychologist George Kelly) as a means of analysing development and the problems of coherence and breakdown within schools of thought, organisations, and economies.
Married Judith Ann Robinson, September 7, 1957. Children: Caroline Ann, Sarah Janet.