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Learning and flexibility for water supply infrastructure planning under diverse uncertainties
(Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2018)
Water supply infrastructure planning faces many uncertainties. Uncertainty in short-term in rainfall and runoff, groundwater storage, and long-term climate change impacts water supply forecasts. Population and economic ...
A systems architecture-based approach to assess candidate upgrades to complex systems
(Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2012)
The Compatibility Assessment Method (CAM), a new structured process for assessing compatibility between parent systems and child subsystems is proposed and applied to several cases where subsystems are being replaced in ...
Stakeholder salience influence on bureaucratic program enterprise value creation
(Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2011)
In 2009, the Government Accountability Office reported that two-thirds of major weapon systems acquisition programs were required to report budget overruns and were almost two years behind schedule for delivery of capability ...
User-centered system design in an aging society : an integrated study on technology adoption
(Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2014)
The aging of the population is an important global phenomenon that is bringing changes and challenges to various areas of society. Technology has been explored as one way to cope with the complexities and uncertainties ...
Rate design for the 21st Century : improving economic efficiency and distributional equity in electricity rate
(Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2019)
Electricity tariffs typically charge residential users a volumetric (that is, per-unit of electricity consumed) price that recovers the bulk of the costs of generating, transmitting, and distributing electrical energy. ...
Coupled natural gas and electric power systems
(Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2015)
Scarce pipeline capacity in regions that rely on natural gas technologies for electricity generation has created volatile prices and reliability concerns. Gas-fired generation firms uniquely operate as large consumers in ...
Electricity generation and emissions reduction decisions under uncertainty : a general equilibrium analysis
(Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2013)
The electric power sector, which accounts for approximately 40% of U.S. carbon dioxide emissions, will be a critical component of any policy the U.S. government pursues to confront climate change. In the context of uncertainty ...
Integrated allocation and utilization of airport capacity to mitigate air traffic congestion
(Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2015)
The combination of air traffic growth and airport capacity limitations has resulted in significant congestion throughout the US National Airspace System, which imposes large costs on the airlines, passengers and society. ...
Improving product availability in hospitals : the role of inventory inaccuracies
(Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2010)
All players in the healthcare industry face increasing public and political pressure to improve quality of care and control costs. Hospitals, on the frontline of this challenge, face nursing shortages and financial ...
A methodology to capture, evaluate and reformulate a firm's supply chain strategy as a conceptual system
(Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2010)
A variety of events inside a firm and in its environment can motivate managers to rethink their supply chain strategy. However, the evaluation and reformulation of a firm's supply chain strategy is not a trivial problem, ...