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Record Nr.

UNINA9910452585703321

Autore

Bender John

Titolo

Ends of Enlightenment [[electronic resource]]

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Palo Alto, : Stanford University Press, 2012

ISBN

0-8047-8461-2

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (311 p.)

Disciplina

809.3/033

809.3033

Soggetti

Enlightenment - Influence

Enlightenment -- Influence

European fiction - 18th century - History and criticism

European fiction -- 18th century -- History and criticism

Literature - Philosophy

Literature -- Philosophy

Literature and science - Europe - History - 18th century

Literature and science -- Europe -- History -- 18th century

Realism in literature

European fiction - History and criticism - 18th century - Europe

Literature and science - History - 18th century

Realism in literature - Philosophy

Literature - Influence

Enlightenment

Languages & Literatures

Literature - General

Electronic books.

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di contenuto

Contents; Illustrations; Acknowledgments; I. Introduction; Ends of Enlightenment; II. Enlightenment Knowledge; 1. Novel Knowledge: Judgment, Experience, Experiment; 2. Enlightenment Fiction and the Scientific Hypothesis; 3. Matters of Fact: Virtual Witnessing and the Public in Hogarth's Narratives; 4. Hume's Learned and Conversible



Worlds (with Robin Valenza); III. Enlightenment Novels; 5. The Novel as Modern Myth: Robinson Crusoe, Frankenstein, Dracula; 6. Tom Jones and the Public; 7. Prison Reform and the Sentence of Narration in The Vicar of Wakefield

8. Impersonal Violence: The Penetrating Gaze and the Field of Narration in Caleb WilliamsA Postscript on My Gross Anatomy Lab; 9. Rational Choice in Love: Les Liaisons dangereuses; IV. Enlightenment Frameworks; 10. Rhetoricality: On the Modernist Return of Rhetoric (with David E. Wellbery); Notes; Index

Sommario/riassunto

Ends of Enlightenment explores three realms of eighteenth-century European innovation that remain active in the twenty-first century: the realist novel, philosophical thought, and the physical sciences, especially human anatomy. The European Enlightenment was a state of being, a personal stance, and an orientation to the world. Ways of probing experience and knowledge in the novel and in the visual arts were interleaved with methods of experimentation in science and philosophy.  This book's fresh perspective considers the novel as an art but also as a force in thinking. The critica

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Record Nr.

UNINA9910148748503321

Titolo

Trade-off analytics : creating and exploring the system tradespace / / edited by Gregory S. Parnell

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Hoboken, New Jersey : , : Wiley, , 2017

©2017

Edizione

[1st edition]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (635 pages) : illustrations, tables

Collana

Wiley Series in Systems Engineering and Management

Disciplina

620.0068/4

Soggetti

Systems engineering - Decision making

Multiple criteria decision making

Electronic books.

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references at the end of each chapters and index.



Sommario/riassunto

Presents information to create a trade-off analysis framework for use in government and commercial acquisition environments This book presents a decision management process based on decision theory and cost analysis best practices aligned with the ISO/IEC 15288, the Systems Engineering Handbook, and the Systems Engineering Body of Knowledge. It provides a sound trade-off analysis framework to generate the tradespace and evaluate value and risk to support system decision-making throughout the life cycle. Trade-off analysis and risk analysis techniques are examined. The authors present an integrated value trade-off and risk analysis framework based on decision theory. These trade-off analysis concepts are illustrated in the different life cycle stages using multiple examples from defense and commercial domains. Provides techniques to identify and structure stakeholder objectives and creative, doable alternatives Presents the advantages and disadvantages of tradespace creation and exploration techniques for trade-off analysis of concepts, architectures, design, operations, and retirement Covers the sources of uncertainty in the system life cycle and examines how to identify, assess, and model uncertainty using probability Illustrates how to perform a trade-off analysis using the INCOSE Decision Management Process using both deterministic and probabilistic techniques Trade-off Analytics:  Creating and Exploring the System Tradespace is written for upper undergraduate students and graduate students studying systems design, systems engineering, industrial engineering and engineering management. This book also serves as a resource for practicing systems designers, systems engineers, project managers, and engineering managers. Gregory S. Parnell, PhD, is a Research Professor in the Department of Industrial Engineering at the University of Arkansas. He is also a senior principal with Innovative Decisions, Inc., a decision and risk analysis firm and has served as Chairman of the Board. Dr. Parnell has published more than 100 papers and book chapters and was lead editor of Decision Making for Systems Engineering and Management, Wiley Series in Systems Engineering (2nd Ed, Wiley 2011) and lead author of the Handbook of Decision Analysis (Wiley 2013).  He is a fellow of INFORMS, the INCOSE, MORS, and the Society for Decision Professionals.