Communicating strategic intent with systemigrams: Application to the network-enabled challenge

Systems Engineering

Volumn 10, Issue 4, 2007, Pages 309-322

  Blair, Charles D ^a   Boardman, John T ^a   Sauser, Brian J ^a  

^a STEVENS INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

Author keywords

BSSM; Multimethodology; NEC; SoS; SSM; Systemigram

Indexed keywords

BSSM; MULTIMETHODOLOGY; NETWORK ENABLED CAPABILITY (NEC); SOS; SSM; SYSTEMIGRAM;

COMPUTATIONAL COMPLEXITY; COMPUTER PROGRAMMING LANGUAGES; LEARNING SYSTEMS; MATHEMATICAL MODELS;

SYSTEMS ENGINEERING;

EID: 36849076265     PISSN: 10981241     EISSN: 15206858     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/sys.20079     Document Type: Article

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