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CrowdConcept : assessing the crowd's creative capacity
(Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2014)
Crowdsourcing creative work - the process of outsourcing a creative task to a large online community or crowd - has grown in popularity over the last decade and is now considered a serious design strategy. However, there ...
Serious games for improved defense contracting
(Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2014)
Gaming has been explored as a research technique in complex systems to explore human interactions within technical domains. These so-called "serious games" are designed for purposes outside of pure entertainment and are ...
Strategy for international cooperation in planning the Chinese Space Station
(Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2014)
After ten years of planning and pre-development, the Chinese government approved the space station project on September 25, 2010. In October 2010, the People's Republic of China (PRC) officially announced its independent ...
Interdependency of electricity and natural gas markets in the United States : a dynamic computational model
(Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2014)
Due to high storage costs and limited storage availability, natural gas is generally used as a just-in- time resource that needs to be delivered as it is consumed. With the shale gas revolution, coal retirements and ...
Used nuclear fuel storage options including implications of small modular reactors
(Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2014)
This work addresses two aspects of the nuclear fuel cycle system with significant policy implications. The first is the preferred option for used fuel storage based on economics: local, regional or national storage. The ...
Value chain dynamics and evolving consumer demographics in the American television industry
(Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2014)
The American television industry has always been one of very fast 'clockspeed,' characterized by the rapid pace of innovation and the emergence of new business models. This has never been truer than now. The entrance of ...
Cross-border barriers to the development of HSR projects : analysis of the Singapore- Kuala Lumpur high speed rail link/
(Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2014)
It is widely recognized that the benefits of High Speed Rail (HSR) such as a driving force of the economy, helps us to reshape the activities of people and business. These benefits were brought to light for its reliability, ...
Environmental and economic tradeoffs in building materials production in India
(Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2014)
The current and projected growth of India's economy and population will continue to lead to increased demand for buildings and infrastructure, and there is a real need to consider what this increase means in terms of natural ...
Water management in hydraulic fracturing-a planning and decision optimization platform
(Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2014)
Recent developments in hydraulic fracturing technology have enabled cost-effective production of unconventional resources, particularly shale gas in the U.S. The process of hydraulic fracturing is water intensive, requiring ...
Data-driven resource allocation decisions : FEMA's disaster recovery centers
(Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2014)
Resource allocation decisions in post-disaster operations are challenging because of situational dynamics, insufficient information, organizational culture, political context, and urgency. We propose a methodology to create ...