Empirical evaluation of procedures to generate flexibility in engineering systems and improve lifecycle performance

Research in Engineering Design

Volumn 24, Issue 3, 2013, Pages 277-295

  Cardin, Michel Alexandre ^a   Kolfschoten, Gwendolyn L ^b   Frey, Daniel D ^c   De Neufville, Richard ^d   De Weck, Olivier L ^c   Geltner, David M ^d  

^a NATIONAL UNIVERSITY OF SINGAPORE   (Singapore)

^b DELFT UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Netherlands)

^c Massachusetts Institute of Technology Cambridge   (United States)

^d MASSACHUSETTS INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

Author keywords

Conceptual design; Design procedures; Empirical evaluation; Flexibility in engineering design; Real options

Indexed keywords

COMMUNICATION INFRASTRUCTURE; CONTROLLED EXPERIMENT; DESIGN AND EVALUATIONS; DESIGN PROCEDURE; EMPIRICAL EVALUATIONS; ENGINEERING DESIGN; LIFE-CYCLE PERFORMANCE; REAL OPTIONS;

BENCHMARKING; CONCEPTUAL DESIGN; LIFE CYCLE;

ENGINEERING;

EID: 84880297686     PISSN: 09349839     EISSN: 14356066     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00163-012-0145-x     Document Type: Article

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