Mitigating contextual uncertainties with valuable changeability analysis in the multi-epoch domain

SysCon 2012 - 2012 IEEE International Systems Conference, Proceedings

Volumn , Issue , 2012, Pages 281-288

  Fitzgerald, Matthew E ^a   Ross, Adam M ^a  

^a Massachusetts Institute of Technology Cambridge   (United States)

Author keywords

changeability; flexibility; metrics; robustness; strategy; tradespace exploration; valuation

Indexed keywords

CHANGE MECHANISMS; CHANGEABILITY; FLEXIBILITY; METRICS; PERFORMANCE OF SYSTEMS; SPACE TUGS; STRATEGY; TIME-DEPENDENT; TOTAL VALUES; VALUE SYSTEMS;

DESIGN; RESOURCE VALUATION; ROBUSTNESS (CONTROL SYSTEMS);

UNCERTAINTY ANALYSIS;

EID: 84861302599     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/SysCon.2012.6189466     Document Type: Conference Paper

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