Collaborative Research: Organizational and Uncertainty Impacts of Couplings in a System Design Framework

协作研究：系统设计框架中耦合的组织和不确定性影响

• 批准号: 1629752
• 负责人: Ali Abbas
• 金额: $ 21.17万
• 依托单位: University of Southern California
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 项目类别: Standard Grant
• 财政年份: 2015
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2015-06-29 至 2019-07-31
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=1629752&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: Collaborative; Research; Organizational; Uncertainty; Impacts

The research objective of this collaborative project is to investigate three hypotheses focusing on the impact of organizational couplings and physics-based couplings on decision-making under uncertainty in the design of large-scale complex engineered systems. Methods to measure loss in value of a system design due to fixed requirements as well as to organizational incentives are to be developed and tested. Three research objectives are pursued as follows: 1) evaluate the impact of incorporating physics-based coupling information in a system value model to better enable trade-offs; 2) incorporate uncertainties associated with physics-based couplings to determine impact on system value; and 3) evaluate the impact of fixed requirements on the system design. The work will provide foundational theoretical and empirical investigations into the theory of large-scale systems design using a value-based approach. The research will identify the value gap due to organizational and technical couplings and the associated impact on the resulting system design, thereby providing a clear basis for changing present practice.If successful, the results of this research will demonstrate that requirements, organizational structure, and incentive structures can seriously impact the system value and hence, system design. Further, the research will offer alternatives to mitigate this impact, thereby enabling an increase in system value and improved system design. This can have significant impact on industries and federal agencies engaged in the design of complex engineered systems. For these engineered systems, during the detailed design stage, there may be thousands of individuals working in a team environment distributed across multiple organizations, with many of these geographically and temporally distributed, wherein these individuals operate with different preferences, beliefs, organizational structures, and incentive structures. This research can potentially result in improved theory, methods, and processes to continuity across an organization, regardless of structure, to produce the greatest system value. The results will be disseminated through a variety of conference and journal mechanisms, with the most significant outreach effort focused on a website that will also contain a "common language" established to span fields of Multidisciplinary Design Optimization (MDO), Value-Driven Design (VDD), and Decision Analysis (DA). Papers and tools produced will also be on this website. Outreach to students from under-represented groups will be a key effort, using the special emphasis of social sciences challenges being addressed together with technical issues.

本合作项目的研究目标是调查三个假设，重点是组织耦合和基于物理的耦合对决策的影响下的不确定性在大型复杂工程系统的设计。由于固定的要求以及组织的激励措施，系统设计的价值损失的测量方法将被开发和测试。三个研究目标如下：1）评估将基于物理的耦合信息纳入系统价值模型的影响，以更好地实现权衡; 2）纳入与基于物理的耦合相关的不确定性，以确定对系统价值的影响;以及3）评估固定需求对系统设计的影响。这项工作将提供基本的理论和实证研究的大规模系统设计的理论，使用基于价值的方法。研究将确定由于组织和技术耦合的价值差距和相关的系统设计的影响，从而提供了一个明确的基础，改变目前的practice.If成功的，本研究的结果将表明，需求，组织结构和激励结构可以严重影响系统的价值，因此，系统设计。此外，该研究将提供替代方案来减轻这种影响，从而提高系统价值和改进系统设计。这可能对从事复杂工程系统设计的行业和联邦机构产生重大影响。对于这些工程系统，在详细设计阶段，可能有成千上万的个体在分布在多个组织中的团队环境中工作，其中许多个体在地理上和时间上分布，其中这些个体以不同的偏好、信念、组织结构和激励结构进行操作。这项研究可能会导致改进的理论，方法和流程，以在整个组织中保持连续性，无论结构如何，以产生最大的系统价值。研究结果将通过各种会议和期刊机制传播，其中最重要的推广工作集中在一个网站上，该网站还将包含一种跨多学科设计优化（MDO），价值驱动设计（VDD）和决策分析（DA）领域的“共同语言”。制作的文件和工具也将在该网站上公布。与代表性不足群体的学生进行外联将是一项关键工作，特别强调社会科学挑战与技术问题一起解决。