ch. 1. Overview of systems life cycle costing -- ch. 2. Introduction to engineering economy -- ch. 3. Advanced economic analysis of alternatives -- ch. 4. Life cycle framework and techniques -- ch. 5. Simulation-based costing -- ch. 6. Costing of complex systems -- ch. 7. Software-intensive systems -- ch. 8. Parametric cost estimating -- ch. 9. Cost as an independent variable -- ch. 10. Costing and managing off-the-shelf systems -- ch. 11. Cost of quality -- ch. 12. Project management's role in life cycle costing.