1. Decision Analysis Working Group

2. Decision Analysis Working Group
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3. INCOSE Connect address
WORKING GROUP NAME
Chairs/co-chairs
INCOSE Connect address
Frank Salvatore
Number of Members
INCOSE Web page 59
IW Participants
Other Web page
None
TBD
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4. Charter 1
Purpose
Advance the state of the practices, education and theory of Decision Analysis and its relationship to other systems engineering disciplines. 2
Goal
Expand and promote the body of knowledge of Decision Analysis and its benefits within the Systems Engineering community. 3
Scope
This technical working group will cover activities that are generically applicable to current and future Decision Analysis practices thru the product development and project life cycle for any and all domains and industries.
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5. Published Products
Updated INCOSE Decision Management Section of SE Handbook, and SeBoK
Tradeoff Study Cascading Mistakes of Omission and Commission, IS 2014 (Best Paper)
Tutorial on Decision Analysis and Trade Studies
Book “Trade-off Analytics: Creating and Exploring the System Tradespace”
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6. 2017 IW Outcomes Announce and promote book published
Decision Analysis Panel Discussion on use of models to support decision analysis
DOD/Decision Analysis Digital Thread Workshop
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7. Planned Work for 2017
ID Data, Models, Documents used and generated as part of the Decision Analysis Process.
Promote and advertise Book
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8. Open Discussion
Have a discussion on how models support decision analysis. 
How descriptive models are being used to support decisions. 
How do we use models to help us communicate, to inform the math models we build, to capture knowledge, to connect data and models together. 
How do we use models to organize goals and criteria used in a decision analysis effort? 
How do we use models to describe solution alternatives
How do we handle changes that are being made on the project in real time and
How are models used to help inform a decision analysis effort of those changes? 
How do we establish traceability to the decisions that are being made on a project?
Please let me know if you will be able to present work that you may have done or are doing in this area. 
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