Engineering Design Handbook - System Analysis and Cost-Effectiveness

This 1971 handbook provides reference material on 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 including an introduction to the concept of system analysis and cost-effectiveness; a basic framework, or general methodological approach, for conducting and reviewing cost-effectiveness or system analysis studies; a set of techniques (linear programming, queueing theory, simulation, etc.) that can be used for performing cost-effectiveness and system analysis studies; and a review of the basic mathematical and statistical concepts that underlie the scientific approach in the system analysis/cost-effectiveness process.
Content:
Front Matter
• List of Tables
• List of Figures
• Table of Contents
1. Introduction
2. General Methodological Approach to Systems Analysis/Cost-Effectiveness Studies
3. Techniques
4. Basic Mathematical and Statistical Concepts
Appendices
Index