Systems Lifecycle Cost-Effectiveness

Massimo Pica graduated in Chemical Engineering at 'Sapienza' University in Rome, Italy. He retired from active service with the rank of Brigadier General in the Corps of Professional Engineers of the Italian Army. Throughout his career Gen. Pica built up significant experience in Project Management, and especially Project Cost Management, as he participated in a number of NATO and international programs for the design, development and production of advanced defence systems. His current activities are in the area of specialist training on Project Management and Economic Engineering. He is a member of European Council of Construction Economics and of International Cost Estimating and Analysis Association.

Part 1 Basic Concepts; Chapter 1 Systems Design and the Characterization of Systems Requirements; Chapter 2 The Life Cycle of Systems; Chapter 3 Economic Principles and Applications of Life Cycle Cost Concepts, Life Cycle Cost, System Effectiveness and Figures of Merit; Chapter 4 Fundamentals of Life Cycle Cost Analysis; Chapter 5 Fundamentals of LCC Estimation; Chapter 6 Selection of Computer-based Models for Cost Calculations; Chapter 7 Conditions of Uncertainty and Risk in Life Cycle Cost Analysis; Part 2 Detailed Approach – Selected Applications; Chapter 8 Criteria and Methodologies for Life Cycle Cost Estimation; Chapter 9 LCC Evaluation for System Software; Chapter 10 Applications of ‘Activity Based Costing’ Concepts; Chapter 11 Economic Aspects of ‘System-of-Systems Engineering’;