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IS design today is driven primarily by technical and functional requirements, and the economic implications for design are not yet well understood. This study argues that system design and architecture must reflect assessments of economic trade-offs besides satisfying technical/functional requirements. Modeling the economic performance structure behind IS design can highlight these trade-offs a...

Control chart is the most well-known chart to monitor the number of nonconformities per inspection unit where each sample consists of constant size. Generally, the design of a control chart requires determination of sample size, sampling interval, and control limits width. Optimally selecting these parameters depends on several process parameters, which have been considered from statistical and...