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Tradeoff Decisions in System Design

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The methods and processes presented in this chapter are those that are commonly used in requirements discovery, trade-off studies, and risk analyses. We replaced synonyms and then found that these seemingly disparate processes turned out to be the same.

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    A. Terry Bahill

  2. Astronautical Engineering Department, University of Southern California, Los Angeles, CA, USA

    Azad M. Madni

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Bahill, A.T., Madni, A.M. (2017). Common Methods and Processes. In: Tradeoff Decisions in System Design. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-43712-5_3

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