Trade-off Analytics (eBook)

Creating and Exploring the System Tradespace

Gregory S. Parnell (Herausgeber)

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2016
John Wiley & Sons (Verlag)
978-1-119-23830-0 (ISBN)

Infos

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.

Gregory S. Parnell, Ph.D, 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, INCOSE, MORS, and the Society for Decision Professionals.

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About the Authors

Gregory S. Parnell is Director, M.S. in Operations Management and Research Professor in the Department of Industrial Engineering at the University of Arkansas. He teaches systems engineering, decision analysis, operations management, and IE design courses. He coedited Decision Making for Systems Engineering and Management, Wiley Series in Systems Engineering, 2nd Ed, Wiley & Sons Inc., 2011, and cowrote the Wiley & Sons Handbook of Decision Analysis, 2013. Dr Parnell has taught at West Point, the United Stated Air Force Academy, Virginia Commonwealth University, and the Air Force Institute of Technology. He is a fellow of the International Committee on Systems Engineering (INCOSE), the Institute for Operations Research & Management Science, Military Operations Research Society, the Society for Decision Professionals, and the Lean Systems Society. During his Air Force career, he served in a variety of R&D positions and operations research positions including at the Pentagon where he led two analysis divisions supporting senior Air Force leadership. He is a retired Colonel in the US Air Force. Dr Parnell received a B.S. in Aerospace Engineering from the University of Buffalo, an M.E. in Industrial & Systems Engineering from the University of Florida, an M.S. in Systems Management from the University of Southern California, and a Ph.D. in Engineering-Economic Systems from Stanford University.

Robert F. Bordley is an adjunct professor of decision analysis and systems engineering at the University of Michigan and a full-time consultant for Booz Allen Hamilton. Bob was formerly technical Fellow at General Motors and a Program Director at the National Science Foundation. His Ph.D., M.S., and MBA in Operations Research are from the University of California, Berkeley with an M.S. in Systems Science, B.S. in Physics, and B.A. in Public Policy from Michigan State University. He is an INCOSE-certified expert systems engineering professional (ESEP), an INFORMS-certified analytic professional (CAP), a professional statistician (PStat), and a certified Project Management Professional (PMP). Bob is a Fellow of the Institute for Operations Research and Management Sciences, a Fellow of the American Statistical Association, and a Fellow of the Society of Decision Professionals. Bob also received the 2004 Best Decision Analysis Publication Award. At the National Science Foundation, he served as Program Director for Decision, Risk and Management Sciences. As Technical Fellow at General Motors, he received GM's Chairman Award, President's Council Award, Research Award of Excellence, GM's Engineering Award of Excellence, and UAW-GM Quality Award. Bob led the mission analysis group in Project Trilby, which helped launch GM's vehicle systems engineering effort as well as its R&D portfolio management group. Bob was also a Technical Director on GM's corporate strategy staff and served as internal consultant to GM's marketing, product planning, and quality engineering staffs. At Booz Allen Hamilton, Bob supports requirements management and concept selection for the Army.

Matthew Cilli received his Ph.D. in Systems Engineering from Stevens Institute of Technology in Hoboken, NJ, and leads an analytics group at the US Army's Armament Research Development and Engineering Center (ARDEC) in Picatinny, NJ. His research interests are focused on improving strategic decision-making through the integrated application of holistic thinking and analytics. Prior to his current position, Dr Cilli accumulated over 20 years of experience developing proposals, securing resources, and leading effective technology development programs for the US Army. Dr Cilli graduated from Villanova University, Villanova, PA, with a Bachelor of Electrical Engineering and a Minor in Mathematics in May 1989. He is also a graduate of the Polytechnic University, Brooklyn, NY, with a Master of Science – Electrical Engineering received in January 1992 and in May 1998, graduated from the University of Pennsylvania, Wharton Business School, Philadelphia, PA, with a Masters of Technology Management.

Simon R. Goerger is the ERDC Director of the Institute for Systems Engineering Research (ISER) at the Information Technology Laboratory (ITL) of the Engineer Research and Development Center (ERDC) in Vicksburg, MS. He has been an Operations Research Analyst with the US Army Corps of Engineers since 2012. Prior to working for the Corps of Engineers, he was a Colonel in the US Army serving as the Director of the Department of Defense Readiness Reporting System (DRRS) Implementation Office (DIO). Simultaneously, he served as Senior Defense Readiness Analyst in the Office of the Undersecretary of Defense (Personnel and Readiness). Simon has served as an Assistant Professor and the Director of the Operations Research Center of Excellence in the Department of Systems Engineering at the United States Military Academy, West Point, NY, before deploying to serve as the Joint Multinational Networks Division Chief, Coalition Forces Land Combatant Command/US Army Central Command, Kuwait. He received his Bachelor of Science from the United States Military Academy, his Master of Science (M.S.) in National Security Strategy from the National War College, and his M.S. in Computer Science and Doctorate of Philosophy in Modeling and Simulations from the Naval Postgraduate School. He is a board member for the Military Operations Research Society. His research interests include decision analysis, systems modeling, tradespace analysis, and combat modeling and simulations.

Dr Gina Guillaume-Joseph is an Information Systems Engineer at The MITRE Corporation in McLean, Virginia. In her current role, she acts as a trusted advisor to senior leadership in Federal Agencies by partnering with them to design enhancements to their work systems. Dr Guillaume-Joseph's work has led to improvements that allow the systems and processes to operate more efficiently and effectively in fulfillment of specific functions. Her various roles have included project manager, software developer, test engineer, and quality assurance engineer within the private, government consulting, nonprofit, and telecommunications arenas. Dr Guillaume-Joseph is President of the INCOSE Washington Metro Area (WMA) Chapter. Dr Guillaume-Joseph has a strong record of success based on direct personal contributions. She leads and develops teams that are adaptive, flexible, and highly responsive in the exceptionally dynamic environment of Government support. Her accomplishments and successes are based on strong program performance, leadership discipline, a commitment to developing relevant, innovative and adaptive solutions, and a vigilant focus on best value solutions for her clients. Dr Guillaume-Joseph has advanced knowledge of software development lifecycle activities, such as agile, waterfall, iterative, incremental, and associated processes including planning, requirements management, design and development, testing, and deployment. Her strong communication skills make her adept at conveying specialized technical information to nontechnical audiences. Dr Guillaume-Joseph received her B.A. in Computer Science from Boston College and M.S. in Information Technology Systems from the University of Maryland. She obtained her Ph.D. in Systems Engineering from George Washington University with a topic focused on Predicting Software Project Failure Outcomes using Predictive Analytics and Modeling.

C. Robert Kenley is an Associate Professor of Engineering Practice in Purdue's School of Industrial Engineering in West Lafayette, IN. He teaches courses in systems engineering at Purdue and has over 30 years of experience in industry, academia, and government as a practitioner, consultant, and researcher in systems engineering. He has published papers on systems requirements, technology readiness assessment and forecasting, Bayes nets, applied meteorology, the impacts of nuclear power plants on employment, agent-based simulation, and model-based systems engineering. Professor Kenley holds a Bachelor of Science in Management from Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), a Master of Science in Statistics from Purdue University, and a Doctor of Philosophy in Engineering-Economic Systems from Stanford University.

Azad M. Madni is a Professor of Astronautical Engineering and the Technical Director of the multidisciplinary Systems Architecting and Engineering (SAE) Program at the University of Southern California's Viterbi School of Engineering. He is also a Professor of USC's Keck School of Medicine and Rossier School of Education. Dr Madni is the founder and Chairman of Intelligent Systems Technology, Inc., a high-tech company specializing in modeling, simulation, and gaming technologies for education and training. His research has been sponsored by several prominent government agencies including DARPA, DHS S&T, MDA, DTRA, ONR, AFOSR, AFRL, ARI, RDECOM, NIST, DOE, and NASA, as well as major aerospace companies including Boeing, Northrop Grumman, and Raytheon. He is the Co-Editor-in-Chief of Engineered Resilient Systems: Challenges and Opportunities in the 21st Century, Procedia Computer Science, 2014. His recent awards include the 2011 INCOSE Pioneer Award and the 2014 Lifetime Achievement Award from INCOSE-LA. He is a Fellow of AAAS, AIAA, IEEE, INCOSE, SDPS, and IETE. He is the Strategic Advisor of the INCOSE Systems Engineering Journal. He received his B.S., M.S., and Ph.D. degrees from the University of California, Los Angeles. He is also a graduate of AEA/Stanford Executive Institute for senior executives.

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Produkt-Details

• Erscheint lt. Verlag: 25.10.2016
• Reihe/Serie: Wiley Series in Systems Engineering and Management
• Reihe/Serie: Wiley Series in Systems Engineering and Management
• Reihe/Serie: Wiley Series in Systems Engineering and Management
• Sprache: englisch
• Themenwelt: Technik ► Elektrotechnik / Energietechnik
• Themenwelt: Wirtschaft ► Betriebswirtschaft / Management ► Logistik / Produktion
• Schlagworte: Affordability Analysis • Business & Management • Concept Trade-offs • Decision Analysis • decision management • Decision Sciences • Electrical & Electronics Engineering • Elektrotechnik u. Elektronik • Human Factors & Risk Assessment • Integrated Decision Models • <p>Systems Engineering • Menschliche Faktoren u. Risikobewertung • Probability Distribution • risk assessment • System Acceptance Decisions</p> • Systems Engineering & Management • Systemtechnik • Systemtechnik u. -management • Theorie der Entscheidungsfindung • trade-off analysis • Wirtschaft u. Management
• ISBN-10: 1-119-23830-7 / 1119238307
• ISBN-13: 978-1-119-23830-0 / 9781119238300