Ebook: Handbook of Systems Engineering and Management

Focus in this book is placed on systems engineering and systems management for building systems of all types. The role of these systems to produce high reliability, and quality services and products is stressed. The role of advanced information technologies in enhancing productivity and quality is also discussed.
Content:
Front Matter
• Preface
• Table of Contents
An Introduction to Systems Engineering and Systems Management
1. Systems Engineering Life Cycles: Life Cycles for Research, Development, Test, and Evaluation; Acquisition; and Planning and Marketing
2. Systems Engineering Management: The Multidisciplinary Discipline
3. Risk Management
4. Discovering System Requirements
5. Configuration Management
6. Cost Management
7. Total Quality Management
8. Reliability, Maintainability, and Availability
9. Concurrent Engineering
10. The Logical Framework in a Project Management System
11. Standards in Systems Engineering
12. System Architectures
13. Systems Design
14. Systems Integration
15. Systematic Measurements
16. Human Supervisory Control
17. Designing for Cognitive Task Performance
18. Organizational and Individual Decision Making
19. Human Error and Its Amelioration
20. Culture, Leadership, and Organizational Change
21. Model-based Design of Human Interaction with Complex Systems
22. Evaluation of Systems
23. Systems Reengineering
24. Issue Formulation
25. Functional Analysis
26. Methods for the Modeling and Analysis of Alternatives
27. Operations Research and Refinement of Courses of Action
28. Decision Analysis
29. Project Planning: Planning for Action
30. Information Technology and Knowledge Management
Index