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ESD Working Paper Series 2000
     
 

2000 Papers:
(listed in reverse chronological order for 2000)

ESD-WP-2000-04: Surviving and Thriving in the New World of Web Aggregators
by Stuart Madnick, Michael Siegel, Mary Alice Frontini, Saraubh Khemka, Steven Chan, Howard Pan

This paper examines the development of aggregators, entities that collect information from a wide range of sources, with or without prior arrangements, and add value through post-aggregation services.

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ESD-WP-2000-03: Challenges in the Better, Faster, Cheaper Era of Aeronautical Design, Engineering and Manufacturing
by Professor Earll Murman

The purpose of this paper is to examine some of the underlying reasons for BFC and offer some thoughts on to help frame the thinking and action of aerospace industry professionals in this new era.

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ESD-WP-2000-02: Ideas on Complexity in Systems – Twenty Views

by Professor Joseph Sussman

The purpose of this paper is to catalogue the ideas of a number of systems thinkers in the area of complexity. I have either quoted directly or done my best to properly paraphrase these ideas. I hope that this note will be useful as we begin to think through the "discipline" of engineering systems to be developed by the ESD faculty.

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ESD-WP-2000-01: Toward Engineering Systems as a Discipline
by Professor Joseph Sussman

The purpose of this paper is to work toward a definition of the discipline of engineering systems and is primarily intended to stimulate discussion on this topic.

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