Rationality in systems engineering: Beyond calculation or political action

Systems Engineering

Volumn 11, Issue 4, 2008, Pages 309-328

  Clausing, Don P ^a,c   Katsikopoulos, Konstantinos V ^a,b  

^a MASSACHUSETTS INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

^b MAX PLANCK INSTITUTE FOR HUMAN DEVELOPMENT   (Germany)

^c NONE   (United States)

Author keywords

Internal coherence; Management; Processes; Psychological insights; QCD; Rational; Reasoning; Systems engineering methods

Indexed keywords

INTERNAL COHERENCE; PROCESSES; PSYCHOLOGICAL INSIGHTS; QCD; RATIONAL; REASONING; SYSTEMS-ENGINEERING METHODS;

DYNAMIC PROGRAMMING; PROBLEM SOLVING; SYSTEMS ENGINEERING;

ENGINEERING;

EID: 56749087909     PISSN: 10981241     EISSN: 15206858     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/sys.20102     Document Type: Article

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