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How to do systems analysis [[electronic resource] /] / John E. Gibson, William T. Scherer, William F. Gibson
| How to do systems analysis [[electronic resource] /] / John E. Gibson, William T. Scherer, William F. Gibson |
| Autore | Gibson John E |
| Pubbl/distr/stampa | Hoboken, N.J., : Wiley-Interscience, c2007 |
| Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (364 p.) |
| Disciplina |
004.21
658.4032 |
| Altri autori (Persone) |
SchererWilliam T
GibsonWilliam F |
| Collana | Wiley series in systems engineering and management |
| Soggetto topico | System analysis |
| Soggetto genere / forma | Electronic books. |
| ISBN |
1-280-90112-8
9786610901128 0-470-13059-8 0-470-13058-X |
| Formato | Materiale a stampa  |
| Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
| Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
| Nota di contenuto |
HOW TO DO SYSTEMS ANALYSIS; Contents; Preface; A Personal Note from William T. Scherer; A Personal Note from William F. Gibson; A Personal Note from Scott F. Ferber; Original Preface from Jack Gibson; Acknowledgments; 1 Introduction; 1.1 What Is a System?; 1.2 Terminology Confusion; 1.3 Systems Analysis Equals Operations Research Plus Policy Analysis; 1.4 Attributes of Large-Scale Systems; 1.5 Intelligent Transportation Systems (ITS): An Example of a Large-Scale System; 1.6 Systems Integration; 1.7 What Makes a "Systems Analysis" Different?; 1.8 Distant Roots of Systems Analysis
1.9 Immediate Precursors to Systems Analysis1.10 Development of Systems Analysis As a Distinct Discipline: The Influence of RAND; Historical Case Study: IIASA (A); Exercises; Case Study: Fun at Six Flags?; Historical Case Study: IIASA (B); 2 Six Major Phases of Systems Analysis; 2.1 The Systems Analysis Method: Six Major Phases; 2.2 The Goal-centered or Top-Down Approach; 2.3 The Index of Performance Concept; 2.4 Developing Alternative Scenarios; 2.5 Ranking Alternatives; 2.6 Iteration and the "Error-embracing" Approach; 2.7 The Action Phase: The Life Cycle of a System; Exercises Case Study: Methodologies or Chaos? Part ACase Study: Methodologies or Chaos? Part B; Case Study: Wal-Mart Crisis!; 3 Goal Development; 3.1 Seven Steps in Goal Development; 3.2 On Generalizing the Question; 3.3 The Descriptive Scenario; 3.4 The Normative Scenario; 3.5 The Axiological Component; 3.6 Developing an Objectives Tree; 3.7 Fitch's Goals for an Urbanizing America: An Example of Objectives Tree Construction; 3.8 Content Analysis of Fitch's Goals; 3.9 Validate; 3.10 Iterate; Case Study: Distance Learning in the Future?; Historical Case Study: Goals of 4C, Inc. 4 The Index of Performance4.1 Introduction; 4.2 Desirable Characteristics for an Index of Performance; 4.3 Economic Criteria; 4.4 Compound Interest; 4.5 Four Common Criteria of Economic Efficiency; 4.6 Is There a Problem with Multiple Criteria?; 4.7 What Is Wrong with the B-C Ratio?; 4.8 Can IRR Be Fixed?; 4.9 Expected Monetary Value; 4.10 Nonmonetary Performance Indices; Exercises; Case Study: Sky High Airlines; Case Study: Bridges-Where to Spend the Security Dollars?; Case Study: Measuring the Process and Outcomes of Regional Transportation Collaboration Case Study: Baseball Free Agent Draft5 Develop Alternative Candidate Solutions; 5.1 Introduction; 5.2 The Classical Approach to Creativity; 5.3 Concepts in Creativity; 5.4 Brainstorming; 5.5 Brainwriting; 5.6 Dynamic Confrontation; 5.7 Zwicky's Morphological Box; 5.8 The Options Field/Options Profile Approach; 5.9 Computer Creativity; 5.10 Computer Simulation: a Tool in Option Development; 5.11 Why a Dynamic Simulation for Creating Options?; 5.12 Context-Free Simulation Models?; 5.13 Bottom-Up Simulation or Top-Down?; 5.14 Lessons from the Susquehanna River Basin Model 5.15 The Forrester Urban Model (FUM) and Societal Values |
| Record Nr. | UNINA-9910143680703321 |
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| Hoboken, N.J., : Wiley-Interscience, c2007 | ||
| Materiale a stampa | ||
| Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II | ||
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How to do systems analysis [[electronic resource] /] / John E. Gibson, William T. Scherer, William F. Gibson
| How to do systems analysis [[electronic resource] /] / John E. Gibson, William T. Scherer, William F. Gibson |
| Autore | Gibson John E |
| Pubbl/distr/stampa | Hoboken, N.J., : Wiley-Interscience, c2007 |
| Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (364 p.) |
| Disciplina |
004.21
658.4032 |
| Altri autori (Persone) |
SchererWilliam T
GibsonWilliam F |
| Collana | Wiley series in systems engineering and management |
| Soggetto topico | System analysis |
| ISBN |
1-280-90112-8
9786610901128 0-470-13059-8 0-470-13058-X |
| Formato | Materiale a stampa |
| Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
| Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
| Nota di contenuto |
HOW TO DO SYSTEMS ANALYSIS; Contents; Preface; A Personal Note from William T. Scherer; A Personal Note from William F. Gibson; A Personal Note from Scott F. Ferber; Original Preface from Jack Gibson; Acknowledgments; 1 Introduction; 1.1 What Is a System?; 1.2 Terminology Confusion; 1.3 Systems Analysis Equals Operations Research Plus Policy Analysis; 1.4 Attributes of Large-Scale Systems; 1.5 Intelligent Transportation Systems (ITS): An Example of a Large-Scale System; 1.6 Systems Integration; 1.7 What Makes a "Systems Analysis" Different?; 1.8 Distant Roots of Systems Analysis
1.9 Immediate Precursors to Systems Analysis1.10 Development of Systems Analysis As a Distinct Discipline: The Influence of RAND; Historical Case Study: IIASA (A); Exercises; Case Study: Fun at Six Flags?; Historical Case Study: IIASA (B); 2 Six Major Phases of Systems Analysis; 2.1 The Systems Analysis Method: Six Major Phases; 2.2 The Goal-centered or Top-Down Approach; 2.3 The Index of Performance Concept; 2.4 Developing Alternative Scenarios; 2.5 Ranking Alternatives; 2.6 Iteration and the "Error-embracing" Approach; 2.7 The Action Phase: The Life Cycle of a System; Exercises Case Study: Methodologies or Chaos? Part ACase Study: Methodologies or Chaos? Part B; Case Study: Wal-Mart Crisis!; 3 Goal Development; 3.1 Seven Steps in Goal Development; 3.2 On Generalizing the Question; 3.3 The Descriptive Scenario; 3.4 The Normative Scenario; 3.5 The Axiological Component; 3.6 Developing an Objectives Tree; 3.7 Fitch's Goals for an Urbanizing America: An Example of Objectives Tree Construction; 3.8 Content Analysis of Fitch's Goals; 3.9 Validate; 3.10 Iterate; Case Study: Distance Learning in the Future?; Historical Case Study: Goals of 4C, Inc. 4 The Index of Performance4.1 Introduction; 4.2 Desirable Characteristics for an Index of Performance; 4.3 Economic Criteria; 4.4 Compound Interest; 4.5 Four Common Criteria of Economic Efficiency; 4.6 Is There a Problem with Multiple Criteria?; 4.7 What Is Wrong with the B-C Ratio?; 4.8 Can IRR Be Fixed?; 4.9 Expected Monetary Value; 4.10 Nonmonetary Performance Indices; Exercises; Case Study: Sky High Airlines; Case Study: Bridges-Where to Spend the Security Dollars?; Case Study: Measuring the Process and Outcomes of Regional Transportation Collaboration Case Study: Baseball Free Agent Draft5 Develop Alternative Candidate Solutions; 5.1 Introduction; 5.2 The Classical Approach to Creativity; 5.3 Concepts in Creativity; 5.4 Brainstorming; 5.5 Brainwriting; 5.6 Dynamic Confrontation; 5.7 Zwicky's Morphological Box; 5.8 The Options Field/Options Profile Approach; 5.9 Computer Creativity; 5.10 Computer Simulation: a Tool in Option Development; 5.11 Why a Dynamic Simulation for Creating Options?; 5.12 Context-Free Simulation Models?; 5.13 Bottom-Up Simulation or Top-Down?; 5.14 Lessons from the Susquehanna River Basin Model 5.15 The Forrester Urban Model (FUM) and Societal Values |
| Record Nr. | UNINA-9910829812803321 |
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Gibson John E
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| Hoboken, N.J., : Wiley-Interscience, c2007 | ||
| Materiale a stampa | ||
| Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II | ||
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How to do systems analysis / / John E. Gibson, William T. Scherer, William F. Gibson
| How to do systems analysis / / John E. Gibson, William T. Scherer, William F. Gibson |
| Autore | Gibson John E |
| Pubbl/distr/stampa | Hoboken, N.J., : Wiley-Interscience, c2007 |
| Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (364 p.) |
| Disciplina | 658.4/032 |
| Altri autori (Persone) |
SchererWilliam T
GibsonWilliam F |
| Collana | Wiley series in systems engineering and management |
| Soggetto topico | System analysis |
| ISBN |
1-280-90112-8
9786610901128 0-470-13059-8 0-470-13058-X |
| Formato | Materiale a stampa |
| Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
| Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
| Nota di contenuto |
HOW TO DO SYSTEMS ANALYSIS; Contents; Preface; A Personal Note from William T. Scherer; A Personal Note from William F. Gibson; A Personal Note from Scott F. Ferber; Original Preface from Jack Gibson; Acknowledgments; 1 Introduction; 1.1 What Is a System?; 1.2 Terminology Confusion; 1.3 Systems Analysis Equals Operations Research Plus Policy Analysis; 1.4 Attributes of Large-Scale Systems; 1.5 Intelligent Transportation Systems (ITS): An Example of a Large-Scale System; 1.6 Systems Integration; 1.7 What Makes a "Systems Analysis" Different?; 1.8 Distant Roots of Systems Analysis
1.9 Immediate Precursors to Systems Analysis1.10 Development of Systems Analysis As a Distinct Discipline: The Influence of RAND; Historical Case Study: IIASA (A); Exercises; Case Study: Fun at Six Flags?; Historical Case Study: IIASA (B); 2 Six Major Phases of Systems Analysis; 2.1 The Systems Analysis Method: Six Major Phases; 2.2 The Goal-centered or Top-Down Approach; 2.3 The Index of Performance Concept; 2.4 Developing Alternative Scenarios; 2.5 Ranking Alternatives; 2.6 Iteration and the "Error-embracing" Approach; 2.7 The Action Phase: The Life Cycle of a System; Exercises Case Study: Methodologies or Chaos? Part ACase Study: Methodologies or Chaos? Part B; Case Study: Wal-Mart Crisis!; 3 Goal Development; 3.1 Seven Steps in Goal Development; 3.2 On Generalizing the Question; 3.3 The Descriptive Scenario; 3.4 The Normative Scenario; 3.5 The Axiological Component; 3.6 Developing an Objectives Tree; 3.7 Fitch's Goals for an Urbanizing America: An Example of Objectives Tree Construction; 3.8 Content Analysis of Fitch's Goals; 3.9 Validate; 3.10 Iterate; Case Study: Distance Learning in the Future?; Historical Case Study: Goals of 4C, Inc. 4 The Index of Performance4.1 Introduction; 4.2 Desirable Characteristics for an Index of Performance; 4.3 Economic Criteria; 4.4 Compound Interest; 4.5 Four Common Criteria of Economic Efficiency; 4.6 Is There a Problem with Multiple Criteria?; 4.7 What Is Wrong with the B-C Ratio?; 4.8 Can IRR Be Fixed?; 4.9 Expected Monetary Value; 4.10 Nonmonetary Performance Indices; Exercises; Case Study: Sky High Airlines; Case Study: Bridges-Where to Spend the Security Dollars?; Case Study: Measuring the Process and Outcomes of Regional Transportation Collaboration Case Study: Baseball Free Agent Draft5 Develop Alternative Candidate Solutions; 5.1 Introduction; 5.2 The Classical Approach to Creativity; 5.3 Concepts in Creativity; 5.4 Brainstorming; 5.5 Brainwriting; 5.6 Dynamic Confrontation; 5.7 Zwicky's Morphological Box; 5.8 The Options Field/Options Profile Approach; 5.9 Computer Creativity; 5.10 Computer Simulation: a Tool in Option Development; 5.11 Why a Dynamic Simulation for Creating Options?; 5.12 Context-Free Simulation Models?; 5.13 Bottom-Up Simulation or Top-Down?; 5.14 Lessons from the Susquehanna River Basin Model 5.15 The Forrester Urban Model (FUM) and Societal Values |
| Record Nr. | UNINA-9910876652503321 |
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Gibson John E
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| Hoboken, N.J., : Wiley-Interscience, c2007 | ||
| Materiale a stampa | ||
| Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II | ||
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Systems Engineering in Context : Proceedings of the 16th Annual Conference on Systems Engineering Research / / edited by Stephen Adams, Peter A. Beling, James H. Lambert, William T. Scherer, Cody H. Fleming
| Systems Engineering in Context : Proceedings of the 16th Annual Conference on Systems Engineering Research / / edited by Stephen Adams, Peter A. Beling, James H. Lambert, William T. Scherer, Cody H. Fleming |
| Edizione | [1st ed. 2019.] |
| Pubbl/distr/stampa | Cham : , : Springer International Publishing : , : Imprint : Springer, , 2019 |
| Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (713 pages) |
| Disciplina |
620.7
620.001171 |
| Soggetto topico |
Control engineering
Quality control Reliability Industrial safety Computer engineering System theory Manufactures Architecture, Computer Control and Systems Theory Quality Control, Reliability, Safety and Risk Computer Engineering Systems Theory, Control Manufacturing, Machines, Tools, Processes Computer System Implementation |
| ISBN | 3-030-00114-8 |
| Formato | Materiale a stampa |
| Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
| Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
| Nota di contenuto | Towards Achieving Architecture Alignment of Business and IT: A Portfolio Decision Analysis Approach -- Emergent network of systems implication for system design -- Using system engineering ilities to better understand resiliency -- Military enterprise wireless communications architecture power analysis -- Grand Challenges in Systems Engineering education -- The joint optimization of critical interdependent infrastructure of an electricity-water-gas system -- Architecture models for coordination of unmanned air and ground vehicles conducting humanitarian assistance and disaster relief -- A Dynamic Model of Military Suicide for Improved Understanding of Effects and Integration of Interventions -- Foundational and precautionary considerations for value-driven tradespace exploration and analysis -- Designing Engineered Resilient Systems Using Set-Based Design -- Candidate Architecture for an Active Orbital Space Debris Removal System -- How do Knowledge Domains come together in Systems? -- Review and Constructive Definitions for Mathematically Engineered Systems as Categorical Interpretation -- Systems Engineering Grand Challenges in Security and Safety -- Application of the Rayleigh Model to Predict Information Technology Program Cost and Schedule Performance -- Integrating set-based design into cost analysis -- A proposed application of systems engineering principles to healthcare decision-making: evaluating patient decision regret in the treatment of oropharyngeal cancer -- How frustrations about oversight can lead to inefficiencies in contractor work -- A method to use the SoS Explorer application with fuzzy-genetic algorithms to support military veterans within higher education -- DisplayText cannot span more than one -- The Data-Ontology-Rule Footing: A Building Block for Knowledge-based -- Why not Teaching systems Architecture as a Studio Art Class? -- A Research Plan to Discover Patterns of Unknown Vulnerabilities Associated with Adopting SysML -- Optimizing Fleet Life Cycle Management Decisions Through Graphical Dominance Analysis -- Comparing Frequentist and Bayesian Approaches for Forecasting Binary Inference Performance -- The Danger of Using Ratio Performance Metrics in System Evaluations -- Uncertain Requirements in the Design Selection Problem -- Uncertain Requirements in the Design Selection Problem -- A Pilot Study on Ranking the Critical Components of a System -- A Method for Robust Requirements Definition -- Identifying Barriers to Agile Technology Roadmapping -- A system of Knowledge Briefs to support decision-making and knowledge reuse in product development -- Ontology Driven Requirements Engineering in the Responsive and Formal Design Process -- A Review of Value Modeling in the NASA Systems Engineering Research Consortium -- Risk Analysis and Prognostics and Health Management for Smart Manufacturing -- Technology maturity in NASA’s Small Business Innovation Research Program -- Visualizing Communication Patterns in Design Teams Over Time -- A Value-Centric Tradespace Approach to Target System Modularization -- Framework for Design Exploration of Secure Embedded System Development -- Engineering Elegant Systems: Postulates, Principles, and Hypotheses of Systems Engineering -- Exergy Efficiency of Interplanetary Transfer Vehicles -- Information Theory Applied to Decision Making Structures -- Using MBSE in satellite architecture trade studies: a practical example -- Systems of Systems Thinking -- Information Entropy Based Complexity Measurement for Systems Engineering and Trade-off Analysis -- Capturing the Information Dependencies of Verification Activities with Bayesian Networks -- Shape Inspection Using N-View Error Accumulation On Low-fidelity Point Clouds -- Investigating approaches to achieve modularity benefits in the acquisition ecosystem -- A Domain Engineering Framework Based on Probabilistic Ontologies for Automated Selection of Features to Reuse -- Rapid Prototyping Insider Threat Inference Enterprise Model Workflows Using Ontology-Template Approach -- Synthesizing Inference Enterprises from Redacted Data -- Cyber-Physical Systems Modeling for Security Using SysML -- How Will Humans Cut through Automated Vehicle Platoons in Mixed Traffic Environments? A Simulation Study of Drivers' Gaze Behaviors based on the Dynamic Areas-of-Interest. |
| Record Nr. | UNINA-9910483850303321 |
| Cham : , : Springer International Publishing : , : Imprint : Springer, , 2019 | ||
| Materiale a stampa | ||
| Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II | ||
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