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Collaborative Research: Delegated Decision Making in Value-Driven Systems Engineering

协作研究：价值驱动系统工程中的委托决策

基本信息

批准号：
1333454
负责人：
Daniel McAdams
金额：
$ 14.46万
依托单位：
Texas A&M Engineering Experiment Station
依托单位国家：
美国
项目类别：
Standard Grant
财政年份：
2013
资助国家：
美国
起止时间：
2013-08-01 至 2017-05-31
项目状态：
已结题

来源：
https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=1333454&HistoricalAwards=false
关键词：
Collaborative Research Delegated Decision Making

项目摘要

The research objective of this collaborative award is to delineate the benefits and limitations of value-driven decision authority delegation in large systems engineering projects as compared to the more traditional approach of delegating authority through a requirements flow-down process. A new and practical value-driven decision delegation approach will be defined based on the mathematical foundations of probability theory, decision theory, and game theory. Using rigorous mathematical analysis, the investigation will characterize this new approach and compare it to a requirements-driven approach. New methods will be derived (1) by which subsystem engineers can communicate their beliefs about technical capabilities to systems engineers and (2) by which systems engineers can incentivize subsystem engineers to seek designs that maximize system-level expected utility. The investigation will start by examining the case of a single subsystem and will culminate with the analysis of decision delegation in the general case of concurrent subsystem design.If successful, this research will have a significant impact on the development of large-scale complex engineered systems of interest to private industry, the government, and the public at large. An improved understanding of decision delegation will enable engineers to structure engineering projects in a more efficient and effective matter, resulting in better systems, at lower cost, and within less time. Furthermore, fundamental insights discovered in this research will provide direction to future computational and empirical studies. Finally, the discoveries made in this research will be incorporated into new systems engineering curricula, which will lead to a better-prepared next generation of systems engineers.

这个协作性奖项的研究目标是描述在大型系统工程项目中，与通过需求向下流程授权的更传统方法相比，价值驱动的决策授权授权的好处和局限性。基于概率论、决策论和博弈论的数学基础，定义了一种新的、实用的价值驱动的决策授权方法。使用严格的数学分析，调查将描述这种新方法的特征，并将其与需求驱动的方法进行比较。新的方法将被派生出来(1)通过这些方法，子系统工程师可以向系统工程师传达他们对技术能力的信念，以及(2)通过这些方法，系统工程师可以激励子系统工程师寻求最大化系统级预期效用的设计。调查将从单个子系统的案例开始，并将在并发子系统设计的一般情况下分析决策授权。如果成功，这项研究将对私营行业、政府和广大公众感兴趣的大型复杂工程系统的开发产生重大影响。提高对决策授权的理解将使工程师能够在更高效和更有效的事项中构建工程项目，从而以更低的成本和更少的时间产生更好的系统。此外，这项研究中发现的基本见解将为未来的计算和实证研究提供方向。最后，这项研究的发现将被纳入新的系统工程课程，这将导致更好地准备下一代系统工程师。