Sources — Compute Budgeting

Primary references supporting the historical foundations, operational structures, systems perspectives, and computational resource management context associated with compute budgeting.

Budgeting and Decision Foundations

Herbert A. Simon
Administrative Behavior (1947)
https://archive.org/details/administrativebe0000simo_f3b1
Peter F. Drucker
The Practice of Management (1954)
https://archive.org/details/practiceofmanage00drucrich/page/n5/mode/2up

Resource Allocation and Operations

C. West Churchman, Russell L. Ackoff & E. Leonard Arnoff
Introduction to Operations Research (1957)
https://archive.org/details/introductiontoo00chur/page/n7/mode/2up

Systems and State Perspectives

Ludwig von Bertalanffy
General System Theory (1968)
https://archive.org/details/generalsystemthe0000bert_f7s2

Computational Resource Management

Abraham Silberschatz, Peter B. Galvin & Greg Gagne
Operating System Concepts (1982)
https://archive.org/details/operatingsystemc0000silb_f8a0

Structural Interpretation

The historical logic of compute budgeting extends from classical budgeting, decision-making, and resource allocation toward computational resource management.

Budgeting emerges as a governance mechanism for handling scarcity, priority, allocation, commitment, execution, and observable resource states.

Compute budgeting applies this logic to computational resources, where resource availability, budget policies, allocation decisions, resource commitments, execution, and budget states form a recurring operational cycle.

This reference treats compute budgeting as a structural model for computational resource governance rather than a vendor-specific, hardware-specific, or implementation-specific practice.