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"Measuring Efficiency in a Garbage Can: Implications for Crisis Management" (PDF file) Author: Kathleen M. Carley Abstract The navy, considered at as a decision-making organization, presents us with a set of interesting and difficult parameters according to which important decisions must be and are made. These parameters are interesting because they are somewhat different from those artificially imposed on theoretical models of decision making; and they are difficult in that they (the parameters) are the result of real-world phenomena and not the simplifying assumptions so often characteristic of science. Let me identify a few of these parameters, suggest how they might be modeled and then examine whether there are any implications for decision making in the navy. | ||