The characteristics of large, sometimes giga-sized investments of complex engineering systems often require a multidisciplinary decision-making process. The investment parameters on which the decision-making is based, the optimality criteria underlying this process and the identification of the...

Real options theory is the newest expansion of standard investment evaluation methods and one that is at the same time suitable for eliminating most of their inadequacies. Similarly to financial options, the possession of real options –rights not obligations – means that operational or...