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Atlanta, GA | Posted: May 8, 2015
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The Journal of Engineering Design identified Saleh's 2009 article, "Flexibility: a Multi-disciplinary Literature Review and a Research Agenda for Designing Flexible Engineering Systems" as the fourth most read and cited in the journal's archives.
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Dr. Joseph SalehThe scholarship of Dr. Joseph H. Saleh is not only widely-read, but well-respected too.
Those are the conclusions that the Journal of Engineering Design delivered, recently, when it identified Saleh's 2009 article, "Flexibility: a Multi-disciplinary Literature Review and a Research Agenda for Designing Flexible Engineering Systems" as the fourth most read and the fourth most cited in the journal's archives.
Saleh's co-authors on the paper are Gregory Mark and Nicole C. Jordan, who contributed while still attending GT-AE.
All told, the paper has been viewed more than 1,400 times and cited in conference papers, articles, and reviews 90 times, according to theJournal's website.
Noting that flexibility is popular "yet not academically mature," the article explores the concept in different academic contexts, highlighting the major themes, challenges and limitations of each perspective.
"We analyze flexibility in the context of decision theory, real options, manufacturing systems, and engineering design," Saleh writes.
"We also provide a critical assessment of the use and abuse of the word flexibility in the technical literature. Finally, we propose a series of research questions that can help transform flexibility into a quantifiable engineering attribute and grow this concept to the level of maturity of optimization and robustness in system design."
This is not the first time that Saleh has been recognized for his scholarship. A year earlier, another paper co-authored by Saleh and former AE doctoral student Dr. Joy Brathwaite, was identified by Elsevier Publishers as one of the top five most popular published in Acta Astronautica.
That paper, "Bayesian Framework for Assessing the Value of Scientific Space Systems: Value of Information Approach with Application to Earth Science Spacecraft' was first published in 2013. Brathwaite earned her doctorate at GT-AE in 2012 and now works with the Institute for Defense Analyses in Washington, D.C.
