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COIM: An Object-Process Based Method for Analyzing Architectures of Complex, Interconnected, Large-Scale Socio-Technical Systems
(Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Engineering Systems Division, 2009-08)There is growing evidence of the relevance of human behavioral factors in the success of development of new products, processes and services. The evidence is even clearer when the forces affecting the development and ... -
Collaborative Systems Thinking: A survey of literature in search of team-level systems thinking within aerospace teams
(Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Engineering Systems Division, 2008-06)This literature review was prepared in support of research investigating team-level systems thinking. Three critical constructs were identified-team, process, and culture-and the pertinent literature is explored in this ... -
Collected Views on Complexity in Systems
(Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Engineering Systems Division, 2002-05)The term complexity is used in many different ways in the systems domain. The different uses of this term may depend upon the kind of system being characterized, or perhaps the disciplinary perspective being brought to ... -
Combating System-Level Quality Problems in Complex Product Development
(Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Engineering Systems Division, 2007-02)As products become more complex and their development involves more technologies, people, and companies, it is no longer sufficient to ensure that each part, component, or subsystem is designed and made correctly. Problems ... -
The Coming Hangover: Magnified Effects of Sequestration on Research Enterprises
(Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Engineering Systems Division, 2013-03)As of March 1, 2013 the US government is taking an $85 billion budget cut. Also referred as the “sequestration”, this automatic spending cut policy might continue for several upcoming years and potentially affect many ... -
Comparative Analysis of Cybersecurity Metrics to Develop New Hypotheses
(Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Engineering Systems Division, 2012-01)Few Internet security organizations provide comprehensive, detailed, and reliable quantitative metrics, especially in the international perspective across multiple countries, multiple years, and multiple categories. As ... -
Comparative Study of High-Speed Passenger Rail Deployment in Megaregion Corridors: Current Experiences and Future Opportunities
(Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Engineering Systems Division, 2010-12)Deployment of high-speed passenger rail services has occurred around the world in densely-populated corridors, often with the effect of either creating or enhancing a unified economic “megaregion” agglomeration. This paper ... -
A Comparison of GDP-Based Productivity in Ambulatory & Inpatient Healthcare: 1998-2005
(Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Engineering Systems Division, 2008-04)A comparison of GDP-based productivity in the ambulatory and inpatient (hospitals and residential treatment centers) healthcare segments shows that labor productivity, measured as GDP dollar contribution per compensation ... -
Complex Socio-technical Problems for Engineers: Pedagogical Motivation and Experience at the Undergraduate Level
(Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Engineering Systems Division, 2012-03)Engineering courses, focused on complex, large-scale, sociotechnical systems, at the undergraduate level, have been rare. Traditionally, most students develop a deep technical understanding in a specific engineering ... -
Complex systems: a review
(Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Engineering Systems Division, 2002-05)Engineers have worked on complex systems ever since engineering began. But the sciences of complexity have come in to their own in the last few decades. Hoping to find common threads that weave their disciplines together, ... -
The Concept of a CLIOS Analysis Illustrated by the Mexico City Case
(Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Engineering Systems Division, 2002-05)The term CLIOS (Complex, Large-scale, Integrated, Open Systems) was conceived as way to capture the salient characteristics of a class of systems that are of growing interest to researchers, decisionmakers, policy makers ... -
Concepts and Mechanics of Evaluating Infrastructure Public-Private Partnerships: A discussion of key practical issues, illustrated through a case example
(Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Engineering Systems Division, 2014-05)This text presents and illustrates crucially important concepts about how to perform a proper economic evaluation of an infrastructure public-private partnership (PPP) and appreciate the contractual value implications for ... -
Concepts in Uncertainty—Four brief teaching notes
(Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Engineering Systems Division, 2011-07)In Spring 2010 I taught—for the first time—an undergraduate required subject in project evaluation (1.011). In the course of that teaching, I wrote and distributed several teaching notes, which were intended to illustrate ... -
Congestion Mitigation through Schedule Coordination at JFK: An Integrated Approach
(Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Engineering Systems Division, 2013-08)Most flight delays are created by large temporary or long-term imbalances between demand and capacity at the busiest airports. Absent large increases in capacity, airport congestion can only be mitigated through improvements ... -
Congestion Pricing: A Parking Queue Model
(Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Engineering Systems Division, 2007-08)Congestion pricing imposes a usage fee on a public resource during times of high demand. Road pricing involves cordoning off a section of the city and imposing a fee on vehicles that enter it. Parking pricing increases the ... -
Connectivity Limits of Mechanical Assemblies Modeled as Networks
(Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Engineering Systems Division, 2004-11)This paper applies network connectivity analysis to mechanical assemblies. Assemblies have extensive intentional structure while simultaneously displaying some of the properties of previously analyzed networks. Fundamental ... -
Context Mediation Demonstration of Counter-Terrorism Intelligence (CTI) Integration
(Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Engineering Systems Division, 2006-02)Examination of intelligence failures prior to the 9/11/01 attacks made clear it that lack of effective information exchange among government agencies hindered the capability of identifying potential threats and preventing ... -
A Control Engineering Approach to Making Complex Infrastructures More Efficient and Reliable: A Core Program for ESD
(Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Engineering Systems Division, 2002-05)Many of our national infrastructures, such as electric power, gas pipeline, transportation and information/communication systems suffer from common design, planning and operating problems. As a consequence of these problems, ... -
Controlling Change Within Complex Systems Through Pliability
(Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Engineering Systems Division, 2012-03)As systems become larger, more complex, and operate for longer periods of time, some change within the system often becomes inevitable. Particularly in systems of systems, with diverse stakeholders, evolutionary development ... -
Corporate-University Alliances and Engineering Systems Research
(Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Engineering Systems Division, 2002-05)This symposium is focused on the possibilities for deeper, more fundamental understanding of engineering systems. Many of the papers address characteristics of engineering systems. As noted by others, engineering systems ...
