Journal
EXPERT SYSTEMS WITH APPLICATIONS
Volume 36, Issue 6, Pages 9879-9890Publisher
PERGAMON-ELSEVIER SCIENCE LTD
DOI: 10.1016/j.eswa.2009.02.019
Keywords
New product development; Bayesian network; Probability generation
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- City University of Hong kong [7001971, 7002311]
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New product development (NPD) is a crucial process to keep a company being competitive. However, because of its inherent features, NPD is a process with high risk as well as high uncertainty. To ensure a smooth operation of NPD, the risk involved in the process need to be assessed and the uncertainty should also be addressed properly. Facing these two tasks, in this paper, the critical risk factors in NPD are first analyzed. Since Bayesian network is specialized in dealing With uncertainties. those risk factors are then modeled into a Bayesian network to facilitate the assessing of the risk involved in an NPD process. To generate the probabilities of different kinds of nodes in a Bayesian network. a systematic probability generation approach is proposed with emphasis on generating the conditional probabilities of the nodes with multi-parents. A case Study is also given in the paper to test and validate the critical risk factors as well as the probability generation approach. (C) 2009 Elsevier Ltd. All rights reserved.
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