Engineering Design Handbook System Analysis and Cost-Effectiveness

Abstract

The purpose of this handbook is to provide a text and reference material in System Analysis and Cost-Effectiveness. It is intended for those technical, scientific, management, and administrative personnel who are responsible for preparing information, making decisions or reviewing decisions made by others regarding life-cycle cost, system effectiveness (availability, dependability, capability), or technical feasibility of a system or equipment at any phase in its life cycle. The handbook consists of four chapters: (1) an introduction to the concept of system analysis and cost-effectiveness; (2) a basic framework, or general methodological approach, for conducting and reviewing cost-effectiveness or system analysis studies; (3) a set of techniques (linear programming, queueing theory, simulation, etc.) that can be used for performing cost-effectiveness and system analysis studies; and (4) a review of the basic mathematical and statistical concepts that underlie the scientific approach in the system analysis/cost-effectiveness process.

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Document Details

Document Type
Technical Report
Publication Date
Apr 01, 1971
Accession Number
AD0884151

Entities

Organizations

  • United States Army Materiel Command

Tags

Communities of Interest

  • C4I
  • Counter WMD
  • Engineered Resilient Systems
  • Ground and Sea Platforms
  • Human Systems
  • Weapons Technologies

DTIC Thesaurus Topics

  • Business Administration
  • Computational Science
  • Computer Programming
  • Data Mining
  • Data Science
  • Databases
  • Game Theory
  • Information Processing
  • Information Science
  • Knowledge Management
  • Mathematical Models
  • Network Science
  • Recreation
  • Servomechanisms
  • Statistical Algorithms
  • Surveys
  • Systems Engineering

Readers

  • Business Analytics
  • Life Cycle Cost Analysis