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(Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2012)This thesis explores the strategies, methodologies and tools for an optimal management of Reusable Transport Items, such as containers or chassis, in an extensive multi-depots network. We use an ocean shipping company ...
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(Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2009)Energy storage has the potential to dramatically change the operation of photovoltaics by allowing for a delay between generation and use. This flexibility has the potential to impact both the revenue from generating ...
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Tragedy of the routing table : an analysis of collective action amongst Internet network operators (Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2011)This thesis analyzes and discusses the effectiveness of social efforts to achieve collective action amongst Internet network operators in order to manage the growth of the Internet routing table. The size and rate of growth ...
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(Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2011)The focus of Bank of America's change management initiatives has shifted away from acquiring and integrating new businesses, a process it calls transition, and towards internal enterprise transformation through a process ...
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Transforming the DoD test and evaluation enterprise to enable unmanned autonomous systems of systems (Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2011)Many US Department of Defense (DoD) systems operate within a systems of systems construct, which present many challenges and will be ever increasing for test and evaluation of unmanned autonomous systems of systems. ...
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(Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2007)As organizations collect and store more information, data integration is becoming increasingly problematic. For example, nearly 70% of respondents to a recent global survey of IT workers and business users called data ...
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(Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2012)This thesis is a study on the adoption of cloud computing in healthcare information technology industry. It provides a guideline for people who are trying to bring cloud computing into healthcare information systems through ...
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(Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2004)The objective of this thesis is to find an appropriate analytical method for scheduling the daily driver tasks in the grocery industry. The goal is to maximize driver utilization. A "Bin-packing" approach is employed to ...
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(Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2003)Auction is a mechanism of selling distinct assets that can be both physical objects and virtual objects. Examples of virtual objects are the rights to use assets like airport time slots and FCC spectrum, or to service ...
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(Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2008)This thesis examines the tradeoffs between carbon footprint, cost, time and risk across three case studies of United States' perishable or consumer packaged goods firms and their transportation partners. Building upon ...
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(Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2009)Cars sold in the United States have steadily become more fuel-efficient since the 1970s, and assessments of emerging technologies demonstrate a significant potential for continued evolutionary improvements. However, historic ...
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(Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2011)Quantitative environmental performance evaluation methods are desired given the growing certification and labeling landscape for consumer goods. Challenges associated with existing methods, such as life cycle assessment ...
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(Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2004)(cont.) boundary and leave more demand uncertainty to the pull part of the system.
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(Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2009)The need to address climate change has gained political momentum, and Carbon Capture and Storage (CCS) is a technology that is seen as being feasible for the mitigation of carbon dioxide emissions. However, there is ...
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(Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2004)Every climate change policy issue is inherently limited by two questions: what are exactly the consequences of climate change for our lives? How much will it cost to deal with them? Almost twelve years after the parties ...
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(Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2006)This research demonstrates that sustainable development is a multidimensional concept that should be approached in a transdisciplinary manner. Its objective has been to synthesize and integrate disparate and currently ...
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(Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2009)Today, the design of business enterprises is much more art than science. The complex structure and behavior of enterprises makes it difficult to untangle cause and effect amidst its components and their relationships. In ...
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(Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2009)Development of new aerostructure designs frequently occurs through a complex process that is difficult to understand and control. Tight requirements for weight, cost, strength, and aerodynamic behavior create many ...
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(Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2007)Today, stakeholders expect organizations to be able to endure external shocks. Hence, the real potential of an avian flu pandemic has many corporations developing business continuity plans for the disruptions that a pandemic ...
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