Advanced Risk Analysis in Engineering Enterprise Systems

Contents

Preface

Acknowledgments

Authors

1.    Engineering Risk Management

1.1      Introduction

1.1.1      Boston’s Central Artery/Tunnel Project

1.2      Objectives and Practices

1.3      New Challenges

Questions and Exercises

2.    Perspectives on Theories of Systems and Risk

2.1      Introduction

2.2      General Systems Theory

2.2.1      Complex Systems, Systems-of-Systems, and Enterprise Systems

2.3      Risk and Decision Theory

2.4      Engineering Risk Management

Questions and Exercises

3.    Foundations of Risk and Decision Theory

3.1      Introduction

3.2      Elements of Probability Theory

3.3      The Value Function

3.4      Risk and Utility Functions

3.4.1      vNM Utility Theory

3.4.2      Utility Functions

3.5      Multiattribute ...