Extracting the Essence of Flexibility in System Design

The modest purpose of this paper is to review the concept of flexibility as discussed in various fields of investigations, and to extract its characteristic features. In order to discuss any subject matter clearly, it is necessary to begin with a clear set of definitions. Indeed much can be gained t...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Authors: Saleh, Joseph H., Hastings, Daniel E., Newman, Dava
Format: Working Paper
Language:en_US
Published: Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Engineering Systems Division 2016
Online Access:http://hdl.handle.net/1721.1/102718