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Human and modeling approaches for humanitarian transportation planning
(Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2012)
Recent disasters have highlighted the need for more effective supply chain management during emergency response. Planning and prioritizing the use of trucks and helicopters to transport humanitarian aid to affected communities ...
Measuring supply chain carbon efficiency : a carbon label framework
(Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2012)
In the near term, efficiency improvements represent a key option for reducing the impacts of climate change. The growing awareness of climate change has increased the attention regarding the carbon emissions "embedded" in ...
Predictive models of procedural human supervisory control behavior
(Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2011)
Human supervisory control systems are characterized by the computer-mediated nature of the interactions between one or more operators and a given task. Nuclear power plants, air traffic management and unmanned vehicles ...
Hierarchy in industry architecture : transaction strategy under technological constraints
(Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2010)
Motivation -- Industrial firms survive, sustain and co-evolve by participating in the sector of innovation and production through industrial transactions with each other. However, it is difficult for specialized firms to ...
A multi-domain process design and improvement framework
(Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2010)
Processes in manufacturing, services, and healthcare are complex socio-technical systems composed of intricately sequenced activities supported by elements drawn from multiple domains. While many of these processes offer ...
The road to the successful clean development mechanism : lessons from the past
(Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2010)
The Clean Development Mechanism (CDM) has evolved at a surprising speed since 2003 and is considered to have made positive contributions to the development of greenhouse-gas-reducing projects in developing countries. Taking ...
Building technological capability within satellite programs in developing countries
(Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2012)
Global participation in space activity is growing as satellite technology matures and spreads. Countries in Africa, Asia and Latin America are creating or reinvigorating national satellite programs. These countries are ...
Using prediction to facilitate patient flow in a health care delivery chain
(Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2013)
A health care delivery chain is a series of treatment steps through which patients flow. The Emergency Department (ED)/Inpatient Unit (IU) chain is an example chain, common to many hospitals. Recent literature has suggested ...
A method for analysis of expert committee decision-making applied to FDA medical device panels
(Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2010)
Committees of experts are critical for decision-making in engineering systems. This is because the complexity of these systems requires that information is pooled from across multiple specialties and domains of knowledge. ...
Essays on the dynamics of alternative fuel vehicle adoption : insights from the market for hybrid-electric vehicles in the United States
(Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2012)
Despite growing energy security and environmental concerns about dependence on oil as a transportation fuel, gasoline remains the overwhelmingly dominant fuel used by the US automotive fleet. Numerous previous efforts to ...