Managing design processes: A risk assessment approach

IEEE Transactions on Systems, Man, and Cybernetics Part A:Systems and Humans.

Volumn 26, Issue 6, 1996, Pages 749-759

  Larson, Nick ^b   Kusiak, Andrew ^a,b  

^a IEEE

^b UNIVERSITY OF IOWA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DECISION MAKING; DECISION THEORY; ENGINEERS; INDUSTRIAL MANAGEMENT; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; PARAMETER ESTIMATION; PRODUCT DESIGN; RISK ASSESSMENT; SUPERVISORY PERSONNEL;

CONCURRENT DESIGN PROCESS; MACRO DECISION STRUCTURE;

CONCURRENT ENGINEERING;

EID: 0030283987     PISSN: 10834427     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/3468.541335     Document Type: Article

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