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aVoilà : optimizing and evaluating procurement paths across the commercial aviation product life cycle
(Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2012)
Spirit AeroSystems is engaged in an unprecedented collaboration to supply a composite fuselage section for a new aircraft program. In most cases, Spirit cannot effectively leverage its composite sourcing experience with ...
Collective intelligence in financial markets : does consumer sentiment influence valuation of financial products?
(Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2012)
This paper examines the relationship between the public mood associated with the economies of Italy, Spain and Greece, and prices of Credit Default Swaps on sovereign bonds of aforementioned countries. The effect of the ...
Automated information distribution in low bandwidth environments
(Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 1999)
The role of organizational culture in creating secure and resilient supply chains
(Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2005)
This thesis aims to understand the role that organizational culture plays in creating secure and resilient supply chains. The terrorist attacks of September 11, 2001, and the government's subsequent response, propelled ...
The evaluation of regional water balances using different hydrometeorological datasets
(Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2003)
The iLab service broker : a software infrastructure providing common services in support of Internet accessible laboratories
(Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2004)
Remote laboratories that are accessible via the Internet are becoming a common phenomenon in higher education institutions. This thesis describes the iLab Service Broker architecture, a software infrastructure that supports ...
A multiple secretary problem with switch costs
(Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2007)
In this thesis, we utilize probabilistic reasoning and simulation methods to determine the optimal selection rule for the secretary problem with switch costs, in which a known number of applicants appear sequentially in a ...
Capacity provisioning, failure recovery and throughput analysis for low earth orbit satellite constellations
(Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2002)
We investigate the capacity needed to build a restorable satellite network and design routing schemes to achieve high throughput. Specifically, the first part of this thesis considers the link capacity requirement for a ...
Establishing a positional information assay for brain ventricle mutants and investigating the choroid plexuses in zebrafish
(Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2004)
The process by which the neural tube expands into three brain ventricles can be understood through genetic mutant analysis. Within the framework of a characterization of zebrafish mutants with brain ventricle phenotypes, ...
Studies of symbiotically important Rhizobium meliloti exopolysaccharides EPSII and succinoglycan
(Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 1999)