Cost-value technique for evaluation of computer system proposals
Edward O. Joslin, Martin J. Mullin · 1964
The Cost-Value Technique of computer evaluation evolves from the computer evaluation and selection techniques used during the last twenty years. The Cost-Value Technique has benefited by the frustrations, errors, and weaknesses of countless selections; however, each selection has added some knowledge to the growing problems of computer acquisition. Each forward step was accompanied by a technique that was more realistic and meaningful. I consider the Cost-Value Technique a natural consequence of evolution, the successor to the Weighted Factors Selection Method, or any other known existing evaluation technique.