This paper presents a Quantitative Method of estimating manpower resources for large programming jobs which represents a simple, feasible guideline. The method combines program structural data with historical data on the productivity of programming groups. This data is then adjusted to cover non-programming resource requirements. This is not a precise method and, in fact, it is not as good as a...

As part of its ongoing effort to encourage rapid prototyping within NATO, the Allied Command Transformation Modelling and Simulation Section is actively involved in modelling and simulating at the multinational political/military level. Experimentation with multinational political concepts and at the military strategic level is inherently complicated and sensitive. Simulation can be used to not...

In 2006 the NATO Military Committee (MC) provided guidance to the two NATO Strategic Commands on key aspects of Effects Based Approach to Operations (EBAO). Whilst Allied Command Transformation (ACT) had already started work on EBAO in its experimental program in 2003, this guidance proved a starting point for EBAO thinking and development throughout ACT and Allied Command Operations (ACO). EBA...

Methods The North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO) summit was held in Chicago, IL, May 19-21, 2012. During the NATO summit, the Chicago Department of Public Health (CDPH) was charged with collecting and analyzing syndromic surveillance data from emergency department (ED) visits that may indicate a man-made or naturally occurring infectious disease threat. Ten days prior to the NATO summit su...