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Capturing Trust as Organizational Uncertainty in a Value-Based Systems Engineering Framework
Proceedings of the 2017 International Annual Conference of the American Society for Engineering Management (2017, Huntsville, AL)
  • Benjamin J. Kwasa, Missouri University of Science and Technology
  • Hanumanthrao Kannan
  • Brian Mesmer
  • Christina Bloebaum
Abstract

The design of Large-Scale Complex Engineered Systems (LSCESs), in a System Engineering (SE) framework, generally requires multiple organizations, each with numerous decision makers that must exchange information to realize the system. The difference in beliefs between decision-makers affects the design process for LSCESs. The authors' recent research using Value-Drive Design (VDD) and Multidisciplinary Design Optimization (MDO) has demonstrated the potential of a preference-driven SE approach that captures critical physical and modeling interactions by the addition of Organization Design (OD) elements to demonstrate the additional impact decision-makers' interactions on the final system. In this paper, the difference in beliefs on information held by decision-makers is explored to identify the extent to which these differences affect the design process. A complex system will be used as a test-bed to demonstrate effects of varied decision-maker beliefs on a system. The goal of this paper is to introduce a methodology to improve value-based systems engineering frameworks.

Meeting Name
2017 International Annual Conference of the American Society for Engineering Management, ASEM 2017 (2017: Oct. 18-21, Huntsville, AL)
Department(s)
Engineering Management and Systems Engineering
Comments
The authors wish to acknowledge the National Science Foundation (NSF), grants CMMI-1300921 and CMMI-1436285, for partial support of this work.
Keywords and Phrases
  • Multidisciplinary Design Optimization,
  • Organization Design,
  • Systems Engineering,
  • Uncertainty,
  • Value-Driven Design
Document Type
Article - Conference proceedings
Document Version
Citation
File Type
text
Language(s)
English
Rights
© 2017 American Society for Engineering Management (ASEM), All rights reserved.
Publication Date
10-1-2017
Publication Date
01 Oct 2017
Citation Information
Benjamin J. Kwasa, Hanumanthrao Kannan, Brian Mesmer and Christina Bloebaum. "Capturing Trust as Organizational Uncertainty in a Value-Based Systems Engineering Framework" Proceedings of the 2017 International Annual Conference of the American Society for Engineering Management (2017, Huntsville, AL) (2017)
Available at: http://works.bepress.com/benjamin-kwasa/5/