Overview
- Facilitates student understanding of decisions under uncertainty, a methodology common to a variety of courses including Systems Engineering, Operational Management, Decision Science, and Risk Analysis
- Covers in a single volume three distinct but related areas in engineering decision making, namely requirements discovery, tradeoff studies and risk analysis. These areas share common mathematical underpinnings; this insight allows readers to develop a sound understanding of techniques and their interpretation in each area
- Employs a visually orientated approach that requires only a modest background in probability and statistics
- Illuminates and summarizes key concepts with dozens of slides for each chapter, supplemented with 400 detailed figures and tables
- Reinforces understanding with specific homework examples
- Employs UML and SysML graphical modeling languages
- Includes supplementary material: sn.pub/extras
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Keywords
- Decision Making under Uncertainty
- Decision Science
- Human Decision Making
- Multiobjective Decision-Making/Multicriteria Decision-Making
- Operational Management
- Optimal Decision Making
- Prospect Theory
- Risk Management Analysis, Assessment, and Communication
- System Design
- Tradeoff Studies/Tradeoff Analyses
Table of contents (7 chapters)
Authors and Affiliations
About the authors
Dr. Terry Bahill is Professor Emeritus of Systems and Industrial Engineering at the University of Arizona, Tucson and the author of six engineering books and 250 papers. Dr. Bahill has worked with dozens of technical companies presenting seminars on systems engineering and advising system development teams on description of their systems engineering processes. An elected Fellow of the IEEE, the International Council on Systems Engineering (INCOSE)and of the AAAS, his research interests are in the fields of system design, modeling physiological systems, eye-hand-head coordination, human decision making, and systems engineering application and theory.
Dr. Azad M. Madni is a Professor of Astronautical Engineering and the Technical Director of Systems Architecting and Engineering at University of Southern California. He is the founder and Chairman of Intelligent Systems Technology, Inc., a company specializing in game-based educational simulations, methods, processes, and tools for complex systems engineering. An elected Fellow of the AAAS, the American Institute for Aeronautics and Astronautics, the IEEE, and the International Council on Systems Engineering (INCOSE), his recent awards include the 2014 Lifetime Achievement Award from INCOSE-LA and the 2013 Innovation in Curriculum Award from the Institute of Industrial Engineers. His research interests include formal and probabilistic methods in systems engineering, model-based architecting and engineering, engineered resilient systems, and exploiting disciplinary and technology convergence to enhance systems engineering.
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Tradeoff Decisions in System Design
Authors: A. Terry Bahill, Azad M. Madni
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-43712-5
Publisher: Springer Cham
eBook Packages: Business and Management, Business and Management (R0)
Copyright Information: Springer International Publishing Switzerland 2017
Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-319-43710-1Published: 30 December 2016
Softcover ISBN: 978-3-319-82892-3Published: 07 July 2018
eBook ISBN: 978-3-319-43712-5Published: 14 December 2016
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XXIV, 698
Number of Illustrations: 86 b/w illustrations, 103 illustrations in colour
Topics: Operations Research/Decision Theory, Industrial and Production Engineering, Control and Systems Theory