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Aerospace

• Aircraft System and Product Development: Teaching the Conceptual Phase
  by Earll M. Murman, R. John Hansman, and John-Paul Clark (.pdf ESD-WP-2001-02)
• Aircraft System Design Graduate Curriculum: A Lifecycle Focus
  by Earll M. Murman and Paul A. Lagacé, Department of Aeronautics and Astronautics, and Engineering Systems Division, Massachusetts Institute of Technology (.pdf ESD-WP-2007-11)
• Challenges in the Better, Faster, Cheaper Era of Aeronautical Design, Engineering and Manufacturing
  by Earll Murman, MIT (.html ESD-WP-2000-03, .pdf ESD-WP-2000-03)
• Collaborative Systems Thinking: A survey of literature in search of team-level systems thinking within aerospace teams
  by Caroline Twomey Lamb. LAI (.pdf ESD-WP-2008-16)
• ESD Internal Symposium: Incorporating Uncertainty Into Conceptual Design of Space System Architectures
  by Daniel E. Hastings, Annalisa L. Weigel, Myles A. Walton (.pdf ESD-WP-2003-01.01)
• Evaluating Accident Models Using Recent Aerospace Accidents, Part 1: Event-Based Models
  by Nancy G. Leveson, MIT (.pdf ESD-WP-2002-06)
• Identifying the Dynamics of Technology Transition: ADS-B Adoption in the National Airspace System
  by Norma Campos, MIT, Technology and Policy Program, Robert Holcombe, MIT, Misha Leybovich, Zoe Szajnfarber, Hidigunnur Thorsteinsson, MIT, Technology and Policy Program (.pdf ESD-WP-2007-01)
• Improving the Software Upgrade Value Stream
  by Brian Ippolito and Earll Murman (.pdf ESD-WP-2002-02)
• Initial Top-Level Characterization of the Air Force Sustainment System
  by Dr. Kirk Bozdogan and Prof. Joseph Sussman, in collaboration with Prof. Thomas Allen and Prof. Wesley Harris (.html ESD-WP-2001-03, .pdf ESD-WP-2001-03)
• Lean Aerospace Engineering
  by Earll M. Murman, Ford Professor of Engineering Emeritus, Aeronautics and Astronautics Department and Engineering Systems, Massachusetts Institute of Technology (.pdf ESD-WP-2008-01)
• Lean Transformation in the U.S. Aerospace Industry: Appreciating Interdependent Social and Technical Systems
  by Prof. Joel Cutcher-Gershenfeld, MIT (.pdf ESD-WP-2003-08)
• Managing Complexity with the Department of Defense Architecture Framework: Development of a Dynamic System Architecture Model
  by Matthew G. Richards, MIT; Nirav B. Shah, MIT; Daniel E. Hastings, MIT and Donna H. Rhodes MIT (.pdf ESD-WP-2007-09)
• Metrics Pilot Project for Military Avionics Sustainment: Experimental Design and Implementation Plan
  by Kirkor Bozdogan, Benjamin M. Brandt, and Joseph M. Sussman, MIT (.pdf ESD-WP-2003-03)
• Screening for Real Options “In” an Engineering System: A Step Towards Flexible System Development; PART I: The Use of Design Matrices to Create an End-to-End Representation of a Complex Socio-Technical System
  by Jason E. Bartolomei, Richard de Neufville, Daniel E. Hastings, and Donna H. Rhodes (.pdf ESD-WP-2006-08)
• Taming the Business Cycles in Commercial Aviation: Trade-space analysis of strategic alternatives using simulation modeling
  by Sgouris Sgouridis, Masdar Institute of Science and Technology; Joseph Sussman, MIT; Henry Weil, MIT; and Kirkor Bozdogan, MIT (.pdf ESD-WP-2008-15)

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Building Technology

• Management of Technology Investment Risk with Real Options-Based Design: A case study of an innovative building technology
  by Lara Greden, Richard de Neufville, Leon Glicksman (.pdf ESD-WP-2005-04)

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Defense

• Advances in Supply Chain Management: Potential to Improve Forecasting Accuracy
  by Shoumen Palit Austin Datta, MIT, Clive W. J. Granger, University of California (.pdf ESD-WP-2006-11)
• ESD Internal Symposium: Defining Engineering Systems: Investigating National Missile Defense
  by Brian Zuckerman (.pdf ESD-WP-2003-01.12)
• Experiences and Challenges with using CERT Data to Analyze
  by Stuart Madnick, MIT: Xitong Li, MIT; and Nazli Choucri, MIT (.pdf ESD-WP-2009-17)
• Protecting the Force: Reducing Combat Vehicle Accidents via Improved Organizational Processes (.pdf ESD-WP-2007-20)
  by Nathan A. Minami, MIT and Stuart Madnick, MIT
• Screening for Real Options “In” an Engineering System: A Step Towards Flexible System Development; PART I: The Use of Design Matrices to Create an End-to-End Representation of a Complex Socio-Technical System
  by Jason E. Bartolomei, Richard de Neufville, Daniel E. Hastings, and Donna H. Rhodes (.pdf ESD-WP-2006-08)
• Understanding Complexity: Dynamic Analysis of Combat Vehicle Accidents
  by Maj. Nathan A. Minami, Instructor/Analyst; United States Military Academy; Department of Systems Engineering and Stuart E. Madnick, John Norris Maguire Professor of Information Technologies & Professor of Engineering Systems; Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Sloan School of Management & School of Engineering (.pdf ESD-WP-2008-06)
• Unified Theory of Relativistic Identification of Information in a Systems Age: Proposed Convergence of Unique Identification with Syntax and Semantics through Internet Protocol version 6
  by Shoumen Palit Austin Datta, Research Scientist, Engineering Systems Division, Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering, Research Director & Co-Founder, MIT Forum for Supply Chain Innovation, School of Engineering, Massachusetts Institute of Technology (.pdf ESD-WP-2007-17)

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Energy

• A Framework for Technology Forecasting and Visualization
  by Wei Lee Woon, Masdar Institute of Science and Technology; Andreas Henschel, Masdar Institute of Science and Technology; and Stuart Madnick, MIT (.pdf ESD-WP-2009-16)
• Approach and Preliminary Results for Early Growth Technology Analysis
  by Blaine Ziegler, MIT; Ayse Kaya Firat, MIT; Stuart Madnick, MIT; Wei Lee Woon, Masdar Institute of Science and Technology; Steven Camina, MIT; Clare Li, MIT Affiliate; and Erik Fogg, MIT Affiliate (.pdf ESD-WP-2009-15)
• COIM: An Object-Process Based Method for Analyzing Architectures of Complex, Interconnected, Large-Scale Socio-Technical Systems
  by Carlos A. Osorio, Universidad Adolfo Ibáñez; Dov Dori, Technion, Israel Institute of Technology and MIT; and Joseph Sussman, MIT(.pdf ESD-WP-2009-12)
• ESD Internal Symposium: A Control Engineering Approach to Making Complex Infrastructures More Efficient and Reliable: A Core Program for ESD
  by Marija D. Ilic, Carnegie Mellon University (.pdf ESD-WP-2003-01.10)
• Holistic Trinity of Services Sciences: Management, Social, & Engineering Sciences
  by Richard C. Larson, Massachusetts Institute of Technology (.pdf ESD-WP-2007-18)
• Strategies to Overcome Network Congestion in Infrastructure Systems
  by Jason W. Black and Richard C. Larson, Center for Engineering Systems Fundamentals, Engineering Systems Division (.pdf ESD-WP-2006-22)
• Technology Forecasting Using Data Mining and Semantics: First Annual Report
  by Wei Lee Woon, Masdar Institute of Science and Technology, Abu Dhabi, United Arab Emirates; Stuart Madnick, Sloan School of Management, MIT; Ayse Firat, Doctoral Candidate, Engineering Systems, MIT; Blaine Ziegler, Doctoral Candidate, Electrical Eng. & Computer Sci., MIT; and Satwik Seshasai, Doctoral Candidate, Engineering Systems, MIT (.pdf ESD-WP-2009-04)
• U.S. response to an Oil Import Disruption Role of the Federal Government in Light Duty Vehicle Transportation
  by Kyle Frazier, Romain Lacombe, Dai Ohama, Faaiza Rashid, Monica Rush, MIT, Technology and Policy Program (.pdf ESD-WP-2007-02)

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Environment

• A Systems Framework for Assessing Air Quality Impacts of ITS: Application to Mexico City
  by Rebecca S. Dodder (.pdf ESD-WP-2004-03)
• ESD Internal Symposium: The Concept of a CLIOS Analysis Illustrated by the Mexico City Case
  by Rebecca Dodder and Joseph M. Sussman, MIT (.pdf ESD-WP-2003-01.07)
• Strategies for Water Reclamation: The Role of Policy and Technology in the Las Vegas Water Supply
  by Anna N. Allen, Christopher W. Evans, Tarek Rached, Hsin Min Wong, MIT, Technology and Policy Program (.pdf ESD-WP-2007-07)
• Superfund: An Assessment of Superfund Site Remedy Selectioin and Implementation
  by Lisa M. Jakobovits, Valerie J. Karplus, Robert E. Love, J. Decker Ringo, Timothy A. Sutherland, MIT, Technology and Policy Program (.pdf ESD-WP-2007-08)
• Technology Forecasting Using Data Mining and Semantics: First Annual Report
  by Wei Lee Woon, Masdar Institute of Science and Technology, Abu Dhabi, United Arab Emirates; Stuart Madnick, Sloan School of Management, MIT; Ayse Firat, Doctoral Candidate, Engineering Systems, MIT; Blaine Ziegler, Doctoral Candidate, Electrical Eng. & Computer Sci., MIT; and Satwik Seshasai, Doctoral Candidate, Engineering Systems, MIT (.pdf ESD-WP-2009-04)

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Health

• A Comparison of GDP-Based Productivity in Ambulatory & Inpatient Healthcare: 1998-2005 (.pdf ESD-WP-2008-14)
• A Proposal to Improve the Health Care Systems for the Urban Poor in the Squatter Settlements of the Developing Countries
  by Prof. Richard Larson and Nebibe Varol, MIT (.pdf ESD-WP-2003-07)
• Avian Influenza Pre-Pandemic Procurement: Recommendations for the US Federal Government
  by Sarah Bird, Timothy Heidel, Meghan McGuinness, Junjay Tan, MIT, Technology and Policy Program and Katsunobu Sasanuma, MIT (.pdf ESD-WP-2007-03)
• Engineering Responses to Pandemics
  by Richard Larson, MIT and Karima R. Nigmatulina, MIT (.pdf ESD-WP-2009-14)
• ESD and Health Care Systems: some strategic considerations
  by Alain de Weck, M.D., University of Bern, Switzerland and University of Navarra, Pamplona, Spain (.pdf ESD-WP-2009-13)
• GDP-Based Productivity in Ambulatory Healthcare: A Comparison with other Industry Segments, 1998-2005
  by David Hartzband, MIT (.pdf ESD-WP-2008-11)
• Pandemic Flu: Yes, We Can Do Something About It!
  by Richard C. Larson, Center for Engineering Systems Fundamentals, Massachusetts Institute of Technology (.pdf ESD-WP-2007-22)
• Planning for a Flu Pandemic: Policies to Empower Individuals and Families
  by Shiva Prakash, MIT; Stan Finkelstein, MIT; Richard Larson, MIT (.pdf ESD-WP-2008-13)
• Revisiting R0, the Basic Reproductive Number for Pandemic Influenza
  by Richard C. Larson, MIT (.pdf ESD-WP-2008-10)
• Simple Models of Influenza Progression within a Heterogeneous Population
  by Richard C. Larson, Center for Engineering Systems Fundamentals, Engineering Systems Division, and Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering, MIT (ESD-WP-2006-23)
• Stopping Pandemic Flu: Government and Community Interventions in a Multi-Community Model
  by Karima R. Nigmatulina, MIT Operations Research Center, and
  Richard C. Larson, MIT Engineering Systems and Civil and Environmental Engineering, Engineering Systems Division (ESD-WP-2007-28)
• Unified Theory of Relativistic Identification of Information in a Systems Age: Proposed Convergence of Unique Identification with Syntax and Semantics through Internet Protocol version 6
  by Shoumen Palit Austin Datta, Research Scientist, Engineering Systems Division, Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering, Research Director & Co-Founder, MIT Forum for Supply Chain Innovation, School of Engineering, Massachusetts Institute of Technology (.pdf ESD-WP-2007-17)
• White Papter on Novel H1N1: Prepared for the MIT Center for Engineering Systems Fundamentals
  by John M. Barry, Distinguished Scholar, Tulane University Center for Bioenvironmental Research; Member, Advisory Board, MIT CESF (.pdf ESD-WP-2009-07-092709)
• Will Nano-Butlers Work for Micro-Payments? Innovation in Business Services Model may Reduce Cost of Delivering Global Healthcare Services
  by Shoumen Palit Austin Datta, MIT (.pdf ESD-WP-2007-17)

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Information Technology

• A Framework for Technology Forecasting and Visualization
  by Wei Lee Woon, Masdar Institute of Science and Technology; Andreas Henschel, Masdar Institute of Science and Technology; and Stuart Madnick, MIT (.pdf ESD-WP-2009-16)
• Approach and Preliminary Results for Early Growth Technology Analysis
  by Blaine Ziegler, MIT; Ayse Kaya Firat, MIT; Stuart Madnick, MIT; Wei Lee Woon, Masdar Institute of Science and Technology; Steven Camina, MIT; Clare Li, MIT Affiliate; and Erik Fogg, MIT Affiliate (.pdf ESD-WP-2009-15)
• Auto ID Paradigm Shifts from Internet of Things to Unique Identification of Individual Decisions in System of Systems
  by Shoumen Palit Austin Datta, MIT (.pdf ESD-WP-2008-09)
• Context Mediation Demonstration of Counter-Terrorism Intelligence (CTI) Integration
  by Stuart E. Madnick, Allen Moulton, Michael D. Siegel, MIT Sloan School of Management (.pdf ESD-WP-2006-05)
• Distance Learning as a Tool for Poverty Reduction and Economic Development: A Focus on Two Countries, China and Mexico
  by Richard C. Larson and M. Elizabeth Murray (.pdf ESD-WP-2006-09)
• Enabling Global Price Comparison with Semantic Integration of Web Data
  by Hongwei Zhu, College of Business and Public Administration, Old Dominion University; Stuart E. Madnick, Sloan School of Management, MIT and Michael Siegel, Sloan School of Management, MIT (.pdf ESD-WP-2008-03)
• Evaluating and Aggregating Data Believability across Quality Sub-Dimensions and Data Lineage
  by Nicolas Pratt, ESSEC Business School and Stuart E. Madnick, Sloan School of Management, MIT (.pdf ESD-WP-2008-05)
• Experiences and Challenges with using CERT Data to Analyze
  by Stuart Madnick, MIT: Xitong Li, MIT; and Nazli Choucri, MIT (.pdf ESD-WP-2009-17)
• Framework for the Analysis of the Adaptability, Extensibility, and Scalability of Semantic Information Integration and the Context Mediation Approach
  by Thomas Gannon, MITRE Corporation; Stuart Madnick, Sloan School of Management, MIT; Allen Moulton, Sloan School of Management, MIT; Michael Siegel, Sloan School of Management, MIT; Marwan Sabbouh, MITRE Corporation; and Hongwei Zhu, Old Dominion University (.pdf ESD-WP-2009-05)
• House of Security: Locale, Roles and Resources for Ensuring Information Security Research-in-Progress
  by Wee Horng Ang, MIT, Yang W. Lee, Northeastern University, Stuart E. Madnick, MIT, Dinsha Mistress, MIT, Michael Siegel, MIT, Diane M. Strong, Worcester Polytechnic Institute, Richard Y. Wang, MIT, and Chrisy Yao, Suffolk University (.pdf ESD-WP-2006-018)
• Managing Shared Access to a Spectrum Commons
  by William Lehr, MIT and Jon Crowcroft, Cambridge University (.pdf ESD-WP-2006-02)
• Measuring Broadband's Economic Impact
  by William H. Lehr, Carlos A. Osorio, Sharon E. Gillett, Marvin A. Sirbu (.pdf ESD-WP-2006-01)
• Measuring Data Believability: A Provenance Approach
  by Nicolas Pratt, ESSEC Business School and Stuart E. Madnick, Sloan School of Management, MIT (.pdf ESD-WP-2008-04)
• Policy for the Protection and Reuse of Non-Copyrightable Database Contents
  by Hongwei Zhu, Stuart Madnick, Michael Siegel, MIT Sloan School of Management (.pdf ESD-WP-2006-03)
• Reconciliation of temporal semantic heterogeneity in evolving information systems
  by Hongwei Zhu, College Business and Public Administration, Old Dominion University and Stuart Madnick, Sloan School of Management, MIT (.pdf ESD-WP-2009-03)
• Reutilization and Legal Protection of Non-Copyrightable Database Contents
  by Hongwei Zhu and Stuart Madnick, MIT Sloan School of Management (.pdf ESD-WP-2006-17)
• Semantic Information Integration in the Large: Adaptability, Extensibility, and Scalability of the Context Mediation Approach
  by Thomas Gannon, Stuart Madnick, Allen Moulton, Michael Siegel, Marwan Sabbouh, Hongwei Zhu (.html ESD-WP-2005-02)
• Semantic Integration Approach to Efficient Business Data Supply Chain: Integration Approach to Interoperable XBRL
  by Hongwei Zhu, College of Business and Public Administration, Old Dominion University and Stuart E. Madnick, Sloan School of Management, MIT (.pdf ESD-WP-2008-02)
• The 24-Hour Knowledge Factory Paradigm: The Evolving Model for Offshoring based on Strategic, Economic, Legal, Health, Technical, and Other Considerations
  by Amar Gupta, University of Arizona and MIT (.pdf ESD-WP-2009-10)
• The Use of Information Systems in Collocated and Distributed Teams: A Test of the 24-Hour Knowledge Factory
  by Satwik Seshasai, Doctoral Candidate, Engineering Systems, MIT;
  Alan J. Malter, Assistant Professor, Department of Marketing
  Eller College of Management, University of Arizona; and
  Amar Gupta, Thomas R. Brown Professor of Management and Technology, Eller College of Management, University of Arizona (.pdf ESD-WP-2007-16)
• Towards quantification of the Role of Materials Innovation in overall Technological Development
  by Christopher L. Magee, MIT (.pdf ESD-WP-2009-09)
• Unified Theory of Relativistic Identification of Information in a Systems Age: Proposed Convergence of Unique Identification with Syntax and Semantics through Internet Protocol version 6
  by Shoumen Palit Austin Datta, Research Scientist, Engineering Systems Division, Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering, Research Director & Co-Founder, MIT Forum for Supply Chain Innovation, School of Engineering, Massachusetts Institute of Technology (.pdf ESD-WP-2007-17)
• Use of Collaborative Technologies and Knowledge Sharing in Co-located and Distributed Teams: Towards the 24-Hour Knowledge Factory
  by Amar Gupta, University of Arizona and MIT; Elisa Mattarelli, University of Modena and Reggio Emilia; Satwik Seshasai, MIT and IBM; and Joseph Broschak, University of Arizona (.pdf ESD-WP-2009-11)

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Infrastructure

• A Methodology for the Identification of Critical Locations in Infrastructures
  by Douglas M. Lemon and George E. Apostolakis (ESD-WP-2004-01)
• Decision Support and Systems Interoperability in Global Business Management
  by Shoumen Palit Austin Datta, Engineering Systems Division, MIT and MIT Forum for Supply Chain Innovation;
  JrJung Lyu and Ping-Shun Chen, Department of Industrial and Information Management, National Cheng Kung University (.pdf ESD-WP-2007-24)
• Enabling Global Price Comparison with Semantic Integration of Web Data
  by Hongwei Zhu, College of Business and Public Administration, Old Dominion University; Stuart E. Madnick, Sloan School of Management, MIT and Michael Siegel, Sloan School of Management, MIT (.pdf ESD-WP-2008-03)
• ESD Internal Symposium: Large Scale Infrastructure Systems
  by Fred Moavenzadeh, MIT (.pdf ESD-WP-2003-01.24)
• Holistic Trinity of Services Sciences: Management, Social, & Engineering Sciences
  by Richard C. Larson, Massachusetts Institute of Technology (.pdf ESD-WP-2007-18)
• Ranking the Risks from Multiple Hazards in a Small Community
  by Hua Li, MIT; George E. Apostolakis, MIT; Joseph Gifun, MIT; William VanSchalkwyk, MIT; Susan Leite, MIT; David Barber, MIT (ESD-WP-2007-25)
• Semantic Integration Approach to Efficient Business Data Supply Chain: Integration Approach to Interoperable XBRL
  by Hongwei Zhu, College of Business and Public Administration, Old Dominion University and Stuart E. Madnick, Sloan School of Management, MIT (.pdf ESD-WP-2008-02)
• Strategies to Overcome Network Congestion in Infrastructure Systems
  by Jason W. Black and Richard C. Larson, Center for Engineering Systems Fundamentals, Engineering Systems Division (.pdf ESD-WP-2006-22)
• The 24-Hour Knowledge Factory Paradigm: The Evolving Model for Offshoring based on Strategic, Economic, Legal, Health, Technical, and Other Considerations
  by Amar Gupta, University of Arizona and MIT (.pdf ESD-WP-2009-10)
• The Progress in Wireless Data Transport and its Role in the Evolving Internet
  By Mario A. Amaya and Christopher L. Magee, Engineering Systems Division, MIT (.pdf ESD-WP-2008-20)
• Use of Collaborative Technologies and Knowledge Sharing in Co-located and Distributed Teams: Towards the 24-Hour Knowledge Factory
  by Amar Gupta, University of Arizona and MIT; Elisa Mattarelli, University of Modena and Reggio Emilia; Satwik Seshasai, MIT and IBM; and Joseph Broschak, University of Arizona (.pdf ESD-WP-2009-11)

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Intelligent Transportation Systems (ITS)

• Design and Management of Flexible Transportation Networks Through the use of Intelligent Transportation Systems (ITS)
  by Joshua McConnell, McKinsey & Co., Sydney Australia and Josesph Sussman, MIT (.pdf ESD-WP-2008-08)
• Technology-Enabled Strategy Development Alternatives for Surface Transportation
  By Travis P. Dunn and Joseph Sussman, MIT (.pdf ESD-WP-2008-19)

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IT/Knowledge Management

• Advances in Supply Chain Management Decision Support Systems: Potential for Improving Decision Support Catalysed by Semantic Interoperability between Systems
  by Shoumen Palit Austin Datta, MIT (.pdf ESD-WP-2006-10)
• ESD Internal Symposium: The Effect of e-Business on Supply Chain Strategy
  by David Simchi-Levi and Edith Simchi-Levi (.pdf ESD-WP-2003-01.04)
• Evaluating and Aggregating Data Believability across Quality Sub-Dimensions and Data Lineage
  by Nicolas Pratt, ESSEC Business School and Stuart E. Madnick, Sloan School of Management, MIT (.pdf ESD-WP-2008-05)
• Experiences and Challenges with using CERT Data to Analyze
  by Stuart Madnick, MIT: Xitong Li, MIT; and Nazli Choucri, MIT (.pdf ESD-WP-2009-17)
• Global Comparison Aggregation Services
  by Hongwei Zhu, Stuart E. Madnick and Michael D. Siegel (.pdf ESD-WP-2002-08)
• Global Outsourcing of Professional Services
  by Satwik Seshasai, MIT and IBM and Amar Gupta, MIT and University of Arizona (.pdf ESD-WP-2006-16)
• Improving the Software Upgrade Value Stream
  by Brian Ippolito and Earll Murman (.pdf ESD-WP-2002-02)
• Improving UccNet-Compliant B2B Supply-Chain Applications Using a Context Interchange Framework
  by Steven Yi-Cheng Tu, Stuart Madnick and Luis Chin-Jung Wu (.pdf ESD-WP-2004-06)
• Managing the Global knowledge-creation Network: A Sense Making Perspective
  by Susan Albers Mohrman, Janice A. Klein, David Finegold (.pdf ESD-WP-2001-05)
• Measuring Data Believability: A Provenance Approach
  by Nicolas Pratt, ESSEC Business School and Stuart E. Madnick, Sloan School of Management, MIT (.pdf ESD-WP-2008-04)
• Offshoring: The Transition From Economic Drivers Toward Strategic Global Partnership and 24-Hour Knowledge Factory
  by Amar Gupta, University of Arizona; Satwik Seshasai, Massachusetts Institute of Technology; Sourav Mukherji, IIM Bangalore; and Auroop Ganguly, Government of the United States of America (.pdf ESD-WP-2006-21)
• Surviving and Thriving in the New World of Web Aggregators
  by Stuart Madnick, Michael Siegel, Mary Alice Frontini, Saraubh Khemka, Steven Chan, Howard Pan (.pdf ESD-WP-2000-04)
• The 24-Hour Knowledge Factory Paradigm: The Evolving Model for Offshoring based on Strategic, Economic, Legal, Health, Technical, and Other Considerations
  by Amar Gupta, University of Arizona and MIT (.pdf ESD-WP-2009-10)
• The Interplay of Web Aggregation and Regulation
  by Hongwei Zhu, Stuart E. Madnick and Michael D. Siegel (.pdf ESD-WP-2002-07)
• Toward the 24-Hour Knowledge Factory
  by Amar Gupta, MIT and University of Arizona and Satwik Seshasai, MIT and IBM (.pdf ESD-WP-2006-14)
• Toward the 24-Hour Knowledge Factory in Software Development
  by Satwik Seshasai, MIT and IBM and Amar Gupta, MIT and University of Arizona (.pdf ESD-WP-2006-15)
• Use of Collaborative Technologies and Knowledge Sharing in Co-located and Distributed Teams: Towards the 24-Hour Knowledge Factory
  by Amar Gupta, University of Arizona and MIT; Elisa Mattarelli, University of Modena and Reggio Emilia; Satwik Seshasai, MIT and IBM; and Joseph Broschak, University of Arizona (.pdf ESD-WP-2009-11)
• Will Nano-Butlers Work for Micro-Payments? Innovation in Business Services Model may Reduce Cost of Delivering Global Healthcare Services
  by Shoumen Palit Austin Datta, MIT (.pdf ESD-WP-2007-17)

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Lean (Applications)

• ESD Internal Symposium: Lean Enterprises – A Systems Perspective
  by Deborah J. Nightingale, MIT (.pdf ESD-WP-2003-01.14)
• Lean Aerospace Engineering
  by Earll M. Murman, Ford Professor of Engineering Emeritus, Aeronautics and Astronautics Department and Engineering Systems, Massachusetts Institute of Technology (.pdf ESD-WP-2008-01)

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Manufacturing

• Challenges in the Better, Faster, Cheaper Era of Aeronautical Design, Engineering and Manufacturing
  by Earll Murman, MIT (.html ESD-WP-2000-03, .pdf ESD-WP-2000-03)
• Do-It-Right-Fisrt-Time (DRFT) Approach to DSF Restructuring
  by Ali A. Yassine, Daniel E. Whitney, Jerry Lavine, and Tony Zambito (.pdf ESD-WP-2002-04)
• Measuring and Understanding Hierarchy as an Architectural Element in Industry Sectors (.pdf ESD-WP-2009-06)
  by Jianxi Luo, MIT; Daniel E. Whitney, MIT; Carliss Y. Baldwin HBS; and Christopher L. Magee, MIT
• Role of Technology in Manufacturing Competitiveness
  by Professor Thomas Eagar and Christopher Musso, MIT (.pdf ESD-WP-2003-06)

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National Security

• Advances in Supply Chain Management: Potential to Improve Forecasting Accuracy
  by Shoumen Palit Austin Datta, MIT, Clive W. J. Granger, University of California (.pdf ESD-WP-2006-11)
• Context Mediation Demonstration of Counter-Terrorism Intelligence (CTI) Integration
  by Stuart E. Madnick, Allen Moulton, Michael D. Siegel, MIT Sloan School of Management (.pdf ESD-WP-2006-05)
• Experiences and Challenges with using CERT Data to Analyze
  by Stuart Madnick, MIT: Xitong Li, MIT; and Nazli Choucri, MIT (.pdf ESD-WP-2009-17)
• Holistic Trinity of Services Sciences: Management, Social, & Engineering Sciences
  by Richard C. Larson, Massachusetts Institute of Technology (.pdf ESD-WP-2007-18)
• Pandemic Flu: Yes, We Can Do Something About It!
  by Richard C. Larson, Center for Engineering Systems Fundamentals, Massachusetts Institute of Technology (.pdf ESD-WP-2007-22)
• Revisiting R0, the Basic Reproductive Number for Pandemic Influenza
  by Richard C. Larson, MIT (.pdf ESD-WP-2008-10)
• Screening for Real Options “In” an Engineering System: A Step Towards Flexible System Development; PART I: The Use of Design Matrices to Create an End-to-End Representation of a Complex Socio-Technical System
  by Jason E. Bartolomei, Richard de Neufville, Daniel E. Hastings, and Donna H. Rhodes (.pdf ESD-WP-2006-08)
• Stopping Pandemic Flu: Government and Community Interventions in a Multi-Community Model
  by Karima R. Nigmatulina, MIT Operations Research Center, and
  Richard C. Larson, MIT Engineering Systems and Civil and Environmental Engineering, Engineering Systems Division (ESD-WP-2007-28)
• Framework for the Analysis of the Adaptability, Extensibility, and Scalability of Semantic Information Integration and the Context Mediation Approach
  by Thomas Gannon, MITRE Corporation; Stuart Madnick, Sloan School of Management, MIT; Allen Moulton, Sloan School of Management, MIT; Michael Siegel, Sloan School of Management, MIT; Marwan Sabbouh, MITRE Corporation; and Hongwei Zhu, Old Dominion University (.pdf ESD-WP-2009-05)
• Unified Theory of Relativistic Identification of Information in a Systems Age: Proposed Convergence of Unique Identification with Syntax and Semantics through Internet Protocol version 6
  by Shoumen Palit Austin Datta, Research Scientist, Engineering Systems Division, Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering, Research Director & Co-Founder, MIT Forum for Supply Chain Innovation, School of Engineering, Massachusetts Institute of Technology (.pdf ESD-WP-2007-17)
• White Papter on Novel H1N1: Prepared for the MIT Center for Engineering Systems Fundamentals
  by John M. Barry, Distinguished Scholar, Tulane University Center for Bioenvironmental Research; Member, Advisory Board, MIT CESF (.pdf ESD-WP-2009-07-092709)

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Product Development

• Aircraft System and Product Development: Teaching the Conceptual Phase
  by Earll M. Murman, R. John Hansman, and John-Paul Clark (.pdf ESD-WP-2001-02)
• Combating System-Level Quality Problems in Complex Product Development
  by Daniel E. Whitney, Massachusetts Institute of Technology (.pdf ESD-WP-2007-12)
• Connectivity Limits of Mechanical Assemblies Modeled as Networks
  by Daniel E. Whitney and Steven D. Eppinger (.pdf ESD-WP-2004-07)
• Designing a Requirement Driven Product Development Process
  by Qi Dong and Daniel E. Whitney (.pdf ESD-WP-2002-03)
• Do-It-Right-Fisrt-Time (DRFT) Approach to DSF Restructuring
  by Ali A. Yassine, Daniel E. Whitney, Jerry Lavine, and Tony Zambito (.pdf ESD-WP-2002-04)
• Does Geographic Clustering Still Benefit High Tech New Ventures? The Case of the Cambridge/Boston Biotech Cluster
  by Thomas J. Allen, Ornit Raz, and Peter Gloor (.pdf ESD-WP-2009-01)
• ESD Internal Symposium: Patterns of Product Development Interactions (.pdf ESD-WP-2003-01.05)
• Lean Aerospace Engineering
  by Earll M. Murman, Ford Professor of Engineering Emeritus, Aeronautics and Astronautics Department and Engineering Systems, Massachusetts Institute of Technology (.pdf ESD-WP-2008-01)
• Three Perspectives on Modularity – A Literature Review of a Product Concept for Assembled Hardware Products
  by Sebastian Fixson (.pdf ESD-WP-2001-06)

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Public Systems

• Congestion Pricing: A Parking Queue Model
  by Richard C. Larson, Center for Engineering Systems Fundamentals, MIT, and Katsunobu Sasanuma, MIT (.pdf ESD-WP-2007-23)
• Decision-Making in the Political and Technical Environments (.pdf ESD-WP-2006-20)
  by David André Broniatowski and Prof. Annalisa L. Wiegel
• ESD Internal Symposium: The Evolving Role of Systems Analysis in Process and Methods in Large-Scale Public Socio-Technical Systems
  by David H. Marks, MIT (.pdf ESD-WP-2003-01.08)
• White Papter on Novel H1N1: Prepared for the MIT Center for Engineering Systems Fundamentals
  by John M. Barry, Distinguished Scholar, Tulane University Center for Bioenvironmental Research; Member, Advisory Board, MIT CESF (.pdf ESD-WP-2009-07-092709)

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Safety/Security

• Applying STAMP in Accident Analysis
  by Nancy Leveson, Mirna Daouk, Nicolas Dulac, and Karen Marais, MIT (.pdf ESD-WP-2003-02)
• Barriers to the Success of 100% Maritime Cargo Container Scanning
  by R. Cirincione, A. Cosmas, MIT, Technology and Policy Program
  C. Low, MIT, J. Peck, and J. Wilds, MIT, Technology and Policy Program (.pdf ESD-WP-2007-05)
• Bulk Power Grid Risk Analysis: Ranking Infrastructure Elements According to their Risk Significance
  by A. M. Koonce, G. E. Apostolakis, and B. K. Cook (.pdf ESD-WP-2006-19)
• Combating System-Level Quality Problems in Complex Product Development
  by Daniel E. Whitney, Massachusetts Institute of Technology (.pdf ESD-WP-2007-12)
• ESD Internal Symposium: Supply Chain Management under the Threat of International Terrorism
  by Yossi Sheffi, MIT (.pdf ESD-WP-2003-01.27)
• Evaluating Accident Models Using Recent Aerospace Accidents, Part 1: Event-Based Models
  by Nancy G. Leveson, MIT (.pdf ESD-WP-2002-06)
• Experiences and Challenges with using CERT Data to Analyze
  by Stuart Madnick, MIT: Xitong Li, MIT; and Nazli Choucri, MIT (.pdf ESD-WP-2009-17)
• House of Security: Locale, Roles and Resources for Ensuring Information Security Research-in-Progress
  by Wee Horng Ang, MIT, Yang W. Lee, Northeastern University, Stuart E. Madnick, MIT, Dinsha Mistress, MIT, Michael Siegel, MIT, Diane M. Strong, Worcester Polytechnic Institute, Richard Y. Wang, MIT, and Chrisy Yao, Suffolk University (.pdf ESD-WP-2006-018)
• Model-Based Analysis of Socio-Technical Risk1
  by Nancy G. Leveson (.pdf ESD-WP-2004-08)
• Preventing Accidents and Building a Culture of Safety: Insights from a Simulation Model
  by John Lyneis Sloan School of Management, MIT and Stuart Madnick Sloan School of Management, MIT (.pdf ESD-WP-2009-02)
• Protecting the Force: Reducing Combat Vehicle Accidents via Improved Organizational Processes (.pdf ESD-WP-2007-20)
  by Nathan A. Minami, MIT and Stuart Madnick, MIT
• Ranking the Risks from Multiple Hazards in a Small Community
  by Hua Li, MIT; George E. Apostolakis, MIT; Joseph Gifun, MIT; William VanSchalkwyk, MIT; Susan Leite, MIT; David Barber, MIT (ESD-WP-2007-25)
• Simple Models of Influenza Progression within a Heterogeneous Population
  by Richard C. Larson, Center for Engineering Systems Fundamentals, Engineering Systems Division, and Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering, MIT (ESD-WP-2006-23)
• Understanding Complexity: Dynamic Analysis of Combat Vehicle Accidents
  by Maj. Nathan A. Minami, Instructor/Analyst; United States Military Academy; Department of Systems Engineering and Stuart E. Madnick, John Norris Maguire Professor of Information Technologies & Professor of Engineering Systems; Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Sloan School of Management & School of Engineering (.pdf ESD-WP-2008-06)

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Strategy Development

• A Framework for Technology Forecasting and Visualization
  by Wei Lee Woon, Masdar Institute of Science and Technology; Andreas Henschel, Masdar Institute of Science and Technology; and Stuart Madnick, MIT (.pdf ESD-WP-2009-16)
• Approach and Preliminary Results for Early Growth Technology Analysis
  by Blaine Ziegler, MIT; Ayse Kaya Firat, MIT; Stuart Madnick, MIT; Wei Lee Woon, Masdar Institute of Science and Technology; Steven Camina, MIT; Clare Li, MIT Affiliate; and Erik Fogg, MIT Affiliate (.pdf ESD-WP-2009-15)
• Linking Historical Roots and Current Methodologies of Engineering Systems
  by Nidhi Santen, PhD Student, MIT Engineering Systems Division and Danielle Wood, PhD Student, MIT Engineering Systems Division (.pdf ESD-WP-2008-22)
• Measuring and Understanding Hierarchy as an Architectural Element in Industry Sectors
  by Jianxi Luo, MIT; Daniel E. Whitney, MIT; Carliss Y. Baldwin HBS; and Christopher L. Magee, MIT (.pdf ESD-WP-2009-06)
• Towards quantification of the Role of Materials Innovation in overall Technological Development
  by Christopher L. Magee, MIT (.pdf ESD-WP-2009-09)

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Supply Chain Management

• A Portfolio Approach for Purchasing Systems: Impact of Switching Point
  by Olli-Pekka Hilmola, Lappeenranta University of Technology; Hongze Ma, Accenture (Finland); and Shoumen Palit Austin Datta,
  Massachusetts Institute of Technology (.pdf ESD-WP-2008-07)
• Advances in Supply Chain Management Decision Support Systems: Potential for Improving Decision Support Catalysed by Semantic Interoperability between Systems
  by Shoumen Palit Austin Datta, MIT (.pdf ESD-WP-2006-10)
• Advances in Supply Chain Management: Potential to Improve Forecasting Accuracy
  by Shoumen Palit Austin Datta, MIT, Clive W. J. Granger, University of California (.pdf ESD-WP-2006-11)
• Aircraft System and Product Development: Teaching the Conceptual Phase
  by Rachel Croson, Karen Donohue, Elena Katok and John Sterman (.pdf ESD-WP-2001-02)
• Auto ID Paradigm Shifts from Internet of Things to Unique Identification of Individual Decisions in System of Systems
  by Shoumen Palit Austin Datta, MIT (.pdf ESD-WP-2008-09)
• Decision Support and Systems Interoperability in Global Business Management
  by Shoumen Palit Austin Datta, Engineering Systems Division, MIT and MIT Forum for Supply Chain Innovation;
  JrJung Lyu and Ping-Shun Chen, Department of Industrial and Information Management, National Cheng Kung University (.pdf ESD-WP-2007-24)
• ESD Internal Symposium: A New Accident Model for Engineering Safer Systems
  by Nancy G. Leveson, MIT (.pdf ESD-WP-2003-01.19)
• ESD Internal Symposium: Supply Chain Management under the Threat of International Terrorism
  by Yossi Sheffi, MIT (.pdf ESD-WP-2003-01.27)
• ESD Internal Symposium: The Effect of e-Business on Supply Chain Strategy
  by David Simchi-Levi and Edith Simchi-Levi (.pdf ESD-WP-2003-01.04)
• Semantic Integration Approach to Efficient Business Data Supply Chain: Integration Approach to Interoperable XBRL
  by Hongwei Zhu, College of Business and Public Administration, Old Dominion University and Stuart E. Madnick, Sloan School of Management, MIT (.pdf ESD-WP-2008-02)
• Unified Theory of Relativistic Identification of Information in a Systems Age: Proposed Convergence of Unique Identification with Syntax and Semantics through Internet Protocol version 6
  by Shoumen Palit Austin Datta, Research Scientist, Engineering Systems Division, Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering, Research Director & Co-Founder, MIT Forum for Supply Chain Innovation, School of Engineering, Massachusetts Institute of Technology (.pdf ESD-WP-2007-17)

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Telecommunications

• COIM: An Object-Process Based Method for Analyzing Architectures of Complex, Interconnected, Large-Scale Socio-Technical Systems
  by Carlos A. Osorio, Universidad Adolfo Ibáñez; Dov Dori, Technion, Israel Institute of Technology and MIT; and Joseph Sussman, MIT(.pdf ESD-WP-2009-12)
• Distance Learning as a Tool for Poverty Reduction and Economic Development: A Focus on Two Countries, China and Mexico
  by Richard C. Larson and M. Elizabeth Murray (.pdf ESD-WP-2006-09)
• Managing Shared Access to a Spectrum Commons
  by William Lehr, MIT and Jon Crowcroft, Cambridge University (.pdf ESD-WP-2006-02)
• Measuring Broadband's Economic Impact
  by William H. Lehr, Carlos A. Osorio, Sharon E. Gillett, Marvin A. Sirbu (.pdf ESD-WP-2006-01)
• Pathways to a Trusted Electronic Voting System
  by Jeremiah Connolly, Romain Lévy, Johnathan Lindsey, Judith Maro, Juan Martin, MIT, Technology and Policy Program (.pdf ESD-WP-2007-04)
• The Progress in Wireless Data Transport and its Role in the Evolving Internet
  By Mario A. Amaya and Christopher L. Magee, Engineering Systems Division, MIT (.pdf ESD-WP-2008-20)

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Transportation

• A Systems Framework for Assessing Air Quality Impacts of ITS: Application to Mexico City
  by Rebecca S. Dodder (.pdf ESD-WP-2004-03)
• Analysis of the Malaysian Toll Road Public-Private Partnership Program and Recommendations for Policy Improvements
  by John L. Ward and Joseph M. Sussman (.pdf ESD-WP-2005-09)
• Characterizing Three Engineering Systems Methods for Supporting Regional Strategic Transportation Planning Applied to Freight Systems
  by Sgouris P. Sgouridis, Joseph M. Sussman, and Christopher Glazner (.pdf ESD-WP-2005-07)
• Congestion Pricing: A Parking Queue Model
  by Richard C. Larson, Center for Engineering Systems Fundamentals, MIT, and Katsunobu Sasanuma, MIT (.pdf ESD-WP-2007-23)
• Design and Management of Flexible Transportation Networks Through the use of Intelligent Transportation Systems (ITS)
  by Joshua McConnell, McKinsey & Co., Sydney Australia and Josesph Sussman, MIT (.pdf ESD-WP-2008-08)
• Design of Ground Delay Programs Considering the Stakeholder Perspective
  by Michael Hanowsky and Josesph Sussman, MIT (.pdf ESD-WP-2008-18)
• ESD Internal Symposium: The Concept of a CLIOS Analysis Illustrated the Mexico City Case
  by Rebecca Dodder and Joseph M. Sussman, MIT (.pdf ESD-WP-2003-01.07)
• ITS: What We Know Now that We Wish We Knew Then: A Retrospective on the ITS 1992 Strategic Plan
  by Prof. Joseph M. Sussman, MIT (.pdf ESD-WP-2003-09)
• Low-Cost Airports for Low-Cost Airlines: Flexible Design to Manage the Risks
  by Richard de Neufville, Massachusetts Institute of Technology (.pdf ESD-WP-2007-15)
• Multi-Airport Systems in the Era of No-Frills Airlines
  by Richard de Neufville (.pdf ESD-WP-2005-06)
• Policy Issues in Implementing Smart Cards in Urban Public Transit Systems
  by Makoto Eguchi, Susan Fredholm, Shan Liu, Paulina Ponce de León Baridó, MIT, Technology and Policy Program and Jacqueline Ye, MIT (.pdf ESD-WP-2007-06)
• Promoting the Concept of Sustainable Transportation within the Federal System - The Need to Reinvent the U.S. DOT
  by Ralph P. Hall and Joseph M. Sussman (.pdf ESD-WP-2006-13)
• Strategies to Overcome Network Congestion in Infrastructure Systems
  by Jason W. Black and Richard C. Larson, Center for Engineering Systems Fundamentals, Engineering Systems Division (.pdf ESD-WP-2006-22)
• Taming the Business Cycles in Commercial Aviation: Trade-space analysis of strategic alternatives using simulation modeling (.pdf ESD-WP-2008-15)
  by Sgouris Sgouridis, Masdar Institute of Science and Technology; Joseph Sussman, MIT; Henry Weil, MIT; and Kirkor Bozdogan, MIT
• Technology-Enabled Strategy Development Alternatives for Surface Transportation
  By Travis P. Dunn and Joseph Sussman, MIT (.pdf ESD-WP-2008-19)
• Using Design Structure Matrices to Improve Decentralized Urban Transportation Systems
  by Travis P. Dunn and Joseph M. Sussman (.pdf ESD-WP-2005-08)
• Using Design Structure Matrices to Improve Decentralized Urban Transportation Systems (.pdf ESD-WP-2005-08)

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