Quatrième de couverture
The definitive decision–making text for systems engineering and management, now updated and revised Decision Making in Systems Engineering and Management is a comprehensive textbook that provides logical processes and analytical techniques for fact–based decision making for the most challenging systems engineering and engineering management problems. It is grounded in the systems decisions process (SDP), which leverages multi–objective decision analysis and value–focused thinking to define the problem; identify system functions and measure stakeholder value; design creative and affordable solutions; explore the decision trade–off space in the presence of uncertainty and risk; and structure successful solution implementations. Like its predecessor, this Second Edition provides a multidisciplinary framework for systems thinking, systems engineering, problem solving, and decision support using accepted principles and practices of systems engineering and decision analysis. This new text includes the following features: Increased emphasis on requirements analysis Inclusion of cost analysis in the solution design phase to emphasize affordability Increased emphasis on risk management and assessment in several chapters Improved sensitivity analysis techniques A completely revised solution implementation chapter to emphasize project management techniques Class tested and dependable, this book includes helpful examples and case studies. Providing a foundational coverage of systems thinking, systems engineering, and systems decision making, this text is suitable for students of systems engineering, engineering management, and systems management, as well as for engineering management and systems engineering consultants. Included notes to instructors offer suggestions for using the book in support of undergraduate and graduate engineering programs.
Quatrième de couverture
A multidisciplinary framework for systems decision making using the principles and practices of systems engineering and decision analysis
Decision Making in Systems Engineering and Management is a comprehensive textbook that provides a logical process for fact–based decision making for the most challenging systems problems. Grounded in systems thinking and based on sound systems engineering principles, the systems decision process (SDP) leverages both multiple–objective decision analysis and value–focused thinking to define the problem, measure stakeholder value, design creative solutions, explore the decision trade space, and structure successful solution implementation.
The book is composed of three bedrock elements to improve readers′ understanding and analysis of the most challenging systems problems that exist today:
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Systems thinking, which introduces a powerful mental framework necessary to identify important interconnections between a system and its environment
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Systems engineering, which describes the activities of professional systems engineers and distinguishes the discipline from other engineering fields
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Systems decision making, which provides fact–based information to support major system decisions made at each system life cycle stage
Complemented with examples, exercises, and case studies, this book serves as the foundation of an undergraduate program for systems engineering or engineering management. It is also appropriate as a supplemental text at the graduate level and is a valuable reference for systems engineering and engineering management professionals.
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