OPTIMUM ALLOCATION OF COMPUTER RESOURCES THROUGH GOAL PROGRAMMING

Allocation of computer resources is becoming an increasing problem both within and outside of computer centre, with budgets fixed and demands increasing system analyst and designers are looking for ways to more effectively and efficiently utilize existing hardware and to design better system. Goal programming model was designed to allow optimization of multi-criteria as needed in this process. This paper deals with application of goal programming to system analysis and design phase of computer implementations and usage

CAPITAL BUDGETING DECISION – A FUZZY GOAL PROGRAMMING APPROACH

This paper  has provided a critical review of the Capital Budgeting and an attempt to re counsel it with the reality that faces the financial executive efficiencies of model for capital budgeting which can be justified only in relation to the earning for objectives and goals. If the objective is given the top priority by management it minimizes the next year’s earnings per share, it may be fool hardy indeed to drop a capital budgeting technique that attempts to minimize the net present value of stream of future cash flows. Because of the inherent differences between accounting income and incremental cash flow would be only by coincidence that an optimal decision would result. The responsibility vests heavily on the shoulders of top management to refine clearly and specifically, what the objectives of the capital budgeting system should be without definition of measure of its effectiveness and one model appears just as acceptable as the other one

BED ALLOCATION IN HOSPITALS – A CASE STUDY

Due to increase of patient inflows and types of medical services demanded over a time period, the hospital administration is faced with the problem of assigning bed for various medical services in a hospital. The objective of this study was to allocate the number of beds in hospital wards compatible with the service level desired by the hospital administration