System Concepts
The last phase of Civil Systems Development.
What is Systems Termination or End of Life?
Physical, regulatory, institutional, and political barriers that influence your optimal decisions.
What is Constraints?
Another name for "node".
What is vertex ?
A variable that has two possible outcomes.
What is a binary variable?
I have two other aliases: Dis-utility and dis-benefit
What is Cost?
A collection of objects, rules, and/or procedures that interact to achieve a goal.
What is a System?
Probabilistic analysis of CE system outcomes where each input is not fixed but follows a prob. distribution.
What is Monte Carlo simulation?
A special kind of network edge that has distinct start points and end points.
What is "Link"?
What is a feasible region?
I admit that I'm fickle, inconstant, and can take any value.
What is a Random Variable?
A system's physical structure, operational rules, condition, and environment.
What are System Attributes?
Combining weights and scales of evaluation criteria in order to find optimal decision.
What is Amalgamation?
Visiting all nodes in a network, with each node getting only 1 visit.
What is Hamiltonian tour ?
The MCA process that changes criteria measurements from their original units to a common unit.
What is Scaling?
I am truly acyclic, and inclusive of all nodes, but not all links of my parent network.
What is spanning tree.
The 3 key aspects of CE system life cycle diagram.
What are Phases, Tasks, and Tools?
The three broad categories of knowledge needed for a good design.
What is domain knowledge, system engineering tools, and general knowledge?
Two software packages for network analysis in this class.
What is: GraphMagic and GRIN?
MCMDKP
What is multi-choice, multi-dimensional knapsack problem?
I'm all about protecting CE systems from environment impacts. My sister (Sustainability) is all about protecting enviroments from CE system impacts.
What is Resilience?
Publisher of our CE 398 textbook.
Who is Wiley?
Used for hypothesis testing of the significance of an X variable in a regression model.
What is t-statistic ?
A tour that visits all links; each link is visited only once; start & end points are the same.
What is Euler cycle or circuit?
An algorithm inspired by the process of natural selection that belongs to the larger class of evolutionary algorithms.
Genetic Algorithm.
My friends are Joe, Doe, and Poe. Me? ... I'm MOE.
What is Measure of Effectiveness?