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Record Nr.

UNINA9910254926703321

Autore

Bahill A. Terry

Titolo

Tradeoff Decisions in System Design / / by A. Terry Bahill, Azad M. Madni

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Cham : , : Springer International Publishing : , : Imprint : Springer, , 2017

ISBN

3-319-43712-7

Edizione

[1st ed. 2017.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (XXIV, 698 p. 189 illus., 103 illus. in color.)

Disciplina

658.40301

Soggetti

Operations research

Decision making

Industrial engineering

Production engineering

Control engineering

Operations Research/Decision Theory

Industrial and Production Engineering

Control and Systems Theory

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Includes index.

Nota di contenuto

System Design and the Design Process -- Decisions and Mistakes -- Common Methods and Processes -- Discovering System Requirements -- Tradeoff Studies -- Risk Analysis and Management -- Comparing Four Processes.

Sommario/riassunto

This textbook is about three key aspects of system design: decision making under uncertainty, trade-off studies and formal risk analyses. Recognizing that the mathematical treatment of these topics is similar, the authors generalize existing mathematical techniques to cover all three areas. Common to these topics are importance weights, combining functions, scoring functions, quantitative metrics, prioritization and sensitivity analyses. Furthermore, human decision-making activities and problems use these same tools. Therefore, these problems are also treated uniformly and modeled using prospect theory. Aimed at both engineering and business practitioners and students interested in systems engineering, risk analysis, operational



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