Abstract :
THREE of the four technical papers in this issue involve quantitative methods for decision making in Research, Development, and Engineering (RD&E). These techniques are not easy to use in day-to-day decision making and they do not, at the present state of the art, guarantee feasible as well as mathematically “optimal” or “good” decisions. Why bother developing and publishing them, then, especially in a journal intended to help engineering managers do their jobs better?
