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The 24-Hour Knowledge Factory Paradigm: The Evolving Model for Offshoring based on Strategic, Economic, Legal, Health, Technical, and Other Considerations
(Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Engineering Systems Division, 2009-08)The 24-Hour Knowledge Factory paradigm involves 3 (or more) collaborating centers, each located in a different continent. Individuals at each center work from 9 am to 5 pm in that country, and then pass the work-in-progress ... -
Advances in Supply Chain Management Decision Support Systems: Potential for Improving Decision Support Catalysed by Semantic Interoperability between Systems
(Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Engineering Systems Division, 2006-07)Globalization has catapulted ‘cycle time’ as a key indicator of operational efficiency [1] in processes such as supply chain management (SCM). Systems automation holds the promise to augment the ability of supply chain ... -
Advances in Supply Chain Management: Potential to Improve Forecasting Accuracy
(Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Engineering Systems Division, 2016-07)Forecasting is a necessity almost in any operation. However, the tools of forecasting are still primitive in view of the great strides made by research and the increasing abundance of data made possible by automatic ... -
After Action Reports: Lessons on Vaccine Distribution
(Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Engineering Systems Division, 2011-06)The responses of individual states to the 2009 H1N1 Pandemic are documented in their After Action Reports (AARs), written in summer 2010. In an attempt to understand how these responses could improve for future pandemics, ... -
Agile Project Dynamics: A System Dynamics Investigation of Agile Software Development Methods
(Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Engineering Systems Division, 2014-10)While Agile software development has many advocates, acceptance in the government and defense sectors has been limited. To address questions of meanings to the term “Agile,” we examine a range of Agile methods practiced ... -
Aircraft System and Product Development: Teaching the Conceptual Phase
(Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Engineering Systems Division, 2001)This paper reports the first offering of a graduate level subject covering the conceptual phase of aircraft product development. The output of the conceptual phase is a system level specification that usually serves as the ... -
Aircraft System Design Graduate Curriculum: A Lifecycle Focus
(Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Engineering Systems Division, 2007-02)Aircraft system design encompasses technical, social and lifecycle topics, and is suitable for graduate studies at the masters level and beyond. Several degree programs in MIT’s School of Engineering offer opportunities ... -
Airport Congestion Mitigation through Dynamic Control of Runway Configurations and of Arrival and Departure Service Rates under Stochastic Operating Conditions
(Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Engineering Systems Division, 2014-05)The high levels of flight delays require the implementation of airport congestion mitigation tools. In this paper, we optimize the utilization of airport capacity at the tactical level in the face of operational uncertainty. ... -
An Algorithm and Metric for Network Decomposition from Similarity Matrices: Application to Positional Analyses
(Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Engineering Systems Division, 2007-02)We present an algorithm for decomposing a social network into an optimal number of structurally equivalent classes. The k-means method is used to determine the best decomposition of the social network for various numbers ... -
America Disrupted: Dynamics of the Technical Capability Crisis
(Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Engineering Systems Division, 2008-12)This study investigates the cause of the nearly twenty-five year decline in the percentage of U.S. born undergraduates earning degrees in engineering. This dramatic decline has occurred despite incredibly high pay and low ... -
Analogies Between Complex Systems and Phases of Matter
(Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Engineering Systems Division, 2012-03)The behavior of a complex system in a changing environment is strongly affected by the system's architecture. We present an analogy between the major phases of matter (solid, liquid, gas) and three major generic architectures ... -
Analysis of Capacity Pricing and Allocation Mechanisms in Shared Railway Systems: Lessons for the Northeast Corridor
(Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Engineering Systems Division, 2015-03)Recently, governments have started promoting the use of shared railway systems as a way to take advantage of the existing capital-intensive railway infrastructure. Until 1988, all major railways both managed the infrastructure ... -
Analysis of High-Speed Rail Implementation Alternatives in the Northeast Corridor: the Role of Institutional and Technological Flexibility
(Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Engineering Systems Division, 2012-07)In this paper, an engineering systems framework using the CLIOS Process, scenario analysis, and flexibility analysis is used to study the implementation of a high-speed rail corridor in the Northeast Corridor of the United ... -
Analysis of the Malaysian Toll Road Public-Private Partnership Program and Recommendations for Policy Improvements
(Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Engineering Systems Division, 2005-08)Malaysia has relied on toll road public-private partnerships (PPPs) for over twenty years to provide important highway infrastructure. The program has been active with nearly 1800 kilometers either constructed or concessions ... -
Analyzing the Financial Relationship between Railway Industry Players in Shared Railway Systems: The Train Operator’s Perspective
(Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Engineering Systems Division, 2014-08)Capacity pricing and allocation play an important role in efficient management of railway corridors, especially shared ones. This paper analyzes how Train Operators (TOs) would respond to different track-access charges, ... -
The Anatomy of Large Scale Systems
(Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Engineering Systems Division, 2012-05)Many theoretical analyses of systems emphasize their behavior. In this paper we shall emphasize the role of organizational structure in influencing certain aspects of the behavior of systems, rather than the full behavior ... -
Annotated Bibliography of Papers Relevant to High-speed Rail, Regional Economic Development and Related Areas
(Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Engineering Systems Division, 2013-12)With HSR continuing to be the target of investments around the world, and with even the United States elevating the place of HSR on its public agenda, we have developed this annotated bibliography of references on HSR, ... -
Applying STAMP in Accident Analysis
(Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Engineering Systems Division, 2003-06)Accident models play a critical role in accident investigation and analysis. Most traditional models are based on an underlying chain of events. These models, however, have serious limitations when used for complex, ... -
Approach and Preliminary Results for Early Growth Technology Analysis
(Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Engineering Systems Division, 2009-10)Even experts cannot be fully aware of all the promising developments in broad and complex fields of technology, such as renewable energy. Fortunately, there exist many diverse sources of information that report new ... -
An approximate dynamic programming approach for designing train timetables
(Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Engineering Systems Division, 2011-08)Traditional approaches to solving the train timetabling problem—the optimal allocation of when each train arrives and departs each station—have relied on Mixed-Integer Programming (MIP) approaches. We propose an alternative ...