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This handbook focuses on systems engineering and systems management for building systems of all types, especially systems that are information technology and software intensive. It concentrates on the macro-level and systems management approaches rather than just analytical and theoretical tools.
List of contents
An Introduction to Systems Engineering and Systems Management (A. Sage & W. Rouse).
Systems Engineering Life Cycles: Life Cycles for Research, Development, Test, and Evaluation; Acquisition; and Planning and Marketing (F. Patterson).
Systems Engineering Management: The Multidisciplinary Discipline (A. Shenhar).
Risk Management (Y. Haimes).
Discovering System Requirements (A. Bahill & F. Dean).
Configuration Management (P. Brouse).
Cost Management (B. Blanchard).
Total Quality Management (J. Melsa).
Reliability, Maintainability, and Availability (M. Pecht).
Concurrent Engineering (A. Kusiak & N. Larson).
The Logical Framework in a Project Management System (J. Ben-Dak).
Standards in Systems Engineering (S. Lowell).
System Architectures (A. Levis).
Systems Design (K. White).
Systems Integration (J. Palmer).
Systematic Measurements (A. Sage & A. Jensen).
Human Supervisory Control (T. Sheridan).
Designing for Cognitive Task Performance (J. Orasanu & M. Shafto).
Organizational and Individual Decision Making (K. Carley & D. Behrens).
Human Error and Its Amelioration (P. Jones).
Culture, Leadership, and Organizational Change (J. Shields, et al.).
Model-Based Design of Human Interaction with Complex Systems (C. Mitchell).
Evaluation of Systems (J. Tien).
Systems Reengineering (A. Sage).
Issue Formulation (J. Armstrong).
Functional Analysis (D. Buede).
Methods for the Modeling and Analysis of Alternatives (C. van Daalen, et al.).
Operations Research and Refinement of Courses of Action (K. Hipel, et al.).
Decision Analysis (C. Kirkwood).
Project Planning: Planning for Action (R. Buys).
Information Technology and Knowledge Management (W. Rouse & A. Sage).
Index.
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