Defining changeability: Reconciling flexibility, adaptability, scalability, modifiability, and robustness for maintaining system lifecycle value

Systems Engineering

Volumn 11, Issue 3, 2008, Pages 246-262

  Ross, Adam M ^a   Rhodes, Donna H ^a   Hastings, Daniel E ^a  

^a MASSACHUSETTS INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

Author keywords

Adaptability; Change taxonomy; Changeability; Flexibility; Value robustness

Indexed keywords

ADAPTABILITY; BEFORE AND AFTER; CHANGE AGENTS; CHANGE MECHANISMS; CHANGE TAXONOMY; CHANGEABILITY; DECISION MAKERS; EXTERNAL-; FLEXIBILITY; IMPROVED SYSTEM; MODIFIABILITY; OUTDEGREE; PARAMETER CHANGES; ROBUST SY STEMS; SYSTEM BOUNDARIES; SYSTEM LIFE-CYCLE; SYSTEM PARAMETERS; VALUE ROBUSTNESS;

AGENTS; MECHANISMS; SCALABILITY;

MACHINE DESIGN;

EID: 52649139490     PISSN: 10981241     EISSN: 15206858     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/sys.20098     Document Type: Article

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