Selected references on PERT and related techniques

Abstract

In the process of collecting literature for a study of the network-type management control systems, it was found that such literature was both plentiful and diverse. To facilitate a systematic analysis of the content, the documents were organized by author, title, author's organization, chronology, and a file number. In the belief that this compilation might be of help to other researchers contemplating similar studies, it was decided to publish the results of this effort in the form of a bibliography. This bibliography comprises two listings which were considered to be of greatest general interest and usefulness, one indexed by author and one indexed by title. A RAND Cost Analysis Department file number is included as a part of each item for the purpose of facilitating identification for any corrections or discussions. The material will be updated on a continuing basis, and the bibliography may be reissued if there is a sufficient amount of new material and interest to warrant it. The author will appreciate receiving any new material that is appropriate for inclusion in this bibliography and any corrections to existing items. The fifty items selected for the excerpt were chosen more to demonstrate the scope of the material covered than to indicate significance. Inclusion or omission from the excerpt should not be construed to represent in any way the author's evaluation of the material. In an excerpt like this, one might expect the items in the author listing to be duplicated in the title listing. This could have been done easily, but in the interest of putting the most information in the least space with the minimum redundancy, items for the title listing were purposely selected from those not included in the author listing.