Programmatic risk analysis for critical engineering systems under tight resource constraints

Operations Research

Volumn 51, Issue 3, 2003, Pages 354-370

  Dillon, Robin L ^a   Paté Cornell, M Elisabeth ^b   Guikema, Seth D ^b  

^a GEORGETOWN UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b Stanford University   (United States)

Author keywords

Decision analysis: Risk management; Project management resource constraints; Space program

Indexed keywords

CRITICAL ENGINEERING SYSTEMS; RESOURCE CONSTRAINTS; RISK ANALYSIS; SPACE PROGRAMS;

AEROSPACE ENGINEERING; BUDGET CONTROL; DECISION THEORY; ENGINEERING RESEARCH; ERROR ANALYSIS; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; OPTIMIZATION; PRODUCT DEVELOPMENT; PROJECT MANAGEMENT; RESOURCE ALLOCATION; SPACE FLIGHT;

RISK ASSESSMENT;

EID: 1542605207     PISSN: 0030364X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1287/opre.51.3.354.14961     Document Type: Article

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