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1.2. Systems Engineers 2 --
1.3. Systems Point of View 5 --
1.4. Definitions of Systems Engineering 8 --
1.5. History of Technological Development 14 --
1.6. Systems Engineering Knowledge 17 --
1.7. Challenges and Pitfalls in Systems Engineering 20 --
1.8. Systems Engineering Education 26 --
1.9. Other Systems Engineering, and Related Systems Theory, Studies 36 --
2 Methodological Frameworks and Systems Engineering Processes 46 --
2.2. Methodological Frameworks for Systems Acquisition or Production 48 --
2.3. Other Specific Life-Cycle Methodologies for Systems Acquisition, Production, or Procurement 67 --
2.4. Life Cycles Patterned After the Waterfall Model 78 --
3 Formulation of Issues 86 --
3.2. Situation Assessment 87 --
3.3. Approaches to Situation Assessment 91 --
3.4. Problem or Issue Identification 97 --
3.5. Value System Design 104 --
3.6. Formulation of Issues Example 113 --
3.7. Relationships Between Issue Formulation and Design and Development Efforts 127 --
3.8. Systems Engineering Requirements Statement 141 --
3.9. Generation of Alternatives or System Synthesis 148 --
3.10. Feasibility Studies 167 --
4 Analysis of Alternatives 179 --
4.2. Analysis of Systems with Uncertain and Imperfect Information 186 --
4.3. Structural Modeling: Trees, Causal Loops, and Influence Diagrams 213 --
4.4. System Dynamics Models and Extensions 231 --
4.5. Economic Models and Economic Systems Analysis 271 --
4.6. Reliability, Availability, Maintainability, and Supportability Models 292 --
4.7. Discrete Event Models, Networks, and Graphs 307 --
4.8. Evaluation of Large-Scale Models 343 --
5 Interpretation of Alternative Courses of Action and Decision Making 359 --
5.1. Introduction: Types of Decisions 360 --
5.2. Formal Decisions 379 --
5.3. Group Decision Making and Voting 424 --
6 Systems Engineering and Systems Engineering Management 455 --
6.2. Systems Engineering Organizational Structures 470 --
6.3. Pragmatics of Systems Management 480 --
6.4. Systems Engineering Methods for Systems Engineering Management 485 --
6.5. Human and Cognitive Factors in Systems Engineering and Systems Management 502.