Affiliations: Department of Engineering Management and Systems
Engineering, The George Washington University, Washington, DC, USA
Note: [] Corresponding author: Steven Doskey, Department of Engineering
Management and Systems Engineering, The George Washington University, 1776 G
Street NW, Washington, DC 20052, USA. E-mail: sdoskey@gwu.edu
Abstract: In this paper, the authors describe an innovative means of
identifying patterns present in systems engineering activity when government
organization acquire and build complex information systems. The research uses a
Bayesian belief network to model causal relationships present in government
acquisitions to create a systems engineering relative effectiveness index model
that can be used to identify and analyze systems engineering patterns; and
subsequently forecast possible areas of performance risks within projects and organizations.
Keywords: Systems engineering management, organizational management, knowledge integration, risk management, model-based systems engineering
