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GENERAL TOPICS

Architecture

• 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: Architecting/Designing Engineering Systems Using Real Options
  by Richard de Neufville, MIT (.pdf ESD-WP-2003-01.09)
• 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)
• 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)
• 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
• 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)
• 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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Competitiveness

• A Comparison of GDP-Based Productivity in Ambulatory & Inpatient Healthcare: 1998-2005 (.pdf ESD-WP-2008-14)
• 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)
• Financial Development, Gender and Entrepreneurship
  by Fernanda Llussá, Faculdade de Ciências e Tecnologia, Universidade Nova de Lisboa and Visiting Researcher, MIT Portugal, MIT (.pdf ESD-WP-2009-18)
• GDP-Based Productivity in Ambulatory Healthcare: A Comparison with other Industry Segments, 1998-2005
  by David Hartzband, MIT (.pdf ESD-WP-2008-11)
• 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)
• Role of Technology in Manufacturing Competitiveness
  by Professor Thomas Eagar and Christopher Musso, MIT (.pdf ESD-WP-2003-06)
• 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)
• 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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Design

• 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)
• Decision-Making in the Political and Technical Environments (.pdf ESD-WP-2006-20)
  by David André Broniatowski and Prof. Annalisa L. Wiegel
• 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)
• ESD Internal Symposium: Architecting/Designing Engineering Systems Using Real Options
  by Richard de Neufville, MIT (.pdf ESD-WP-2003-01.09)
• ESD Internal Symposium: Isoperformance An Alternative Design Methodology for Engineering Systems
  by Olivier L. de Weck, MIT (.pdf ESD-WP-2003-01.22)
• ESD Internal Symposium: The Link between Cognition and the Complexity of Engineering Systems Design
  by John R. Williams, MIT (.pdf ESD-WP-2003-01.18)
• 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)
• Extracting the Essence of Flexibility in System Design
  by Joseph H. Saleh, Daniel E. Hastings, and Dava J. Newman (.pdf ESD-WP-2001-04)
• 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)
• 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)
• 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)
• 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)
• 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)

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Education

• 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)
• America Disrupted: Dynamics of the Technical Capability Crisis
  by Dan Sturtevant (.pdf ESD-WP-2008-21)
• 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)
• Holistic Trinity of Services Sciences: Management, Social, & Engineering Sciences
  by Richard C. Larson, Massachusetts Institute of Technology (.pdf ESD-WP-2007-18)
• Needs and Possibilities for Engineering Education: One Industrial/ Academic Perspective
  by Professor Christopher L. Magee, MIT (.pdf ESD-WP-2003-04)
• Teaching Systems Thinking to Engineering Undergraduates Using the CLIOS Process
  By Joseph Sussman, Massachusetts Institute of Technology (.pdf ESD-WP-2007-19)
• Toward a New Technology and Policy Program (TPP) Curriculum
  by Rebecca Dodder, Professor Daniel Hastings, Professor Tom Kochan, Professor Richard Lester, Professor David Marks, Professor Ken Oye, Professor Joseph Sussman, Professor Arthur Steinberg, and Dr. Richard Tabors (.pdf ESD-WP-2001-01)

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ESD Symposium

• ESD Internal Conference Extended Abstracts
  by The ESD Colloquium Committee (.pdf ESD-WP-2002-05)

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Industry/ Academic Interactions

• 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: Corporate-University Alliances and Engineering Systems Research
  by George Roth and Chris Magee (.pdf ESD-WP-2003-01.26)
• Needs and Possibilities for Engineering Education: One Industrial/ Academic Perspective
  by Professor Christopher L. Magee, MIT (.pdf ESD-WP-2003-04)

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Networks

• A New Model Of Cascades On Random Networks With A Threshold Rule Fundamentals
  by Daniel E. Whitney, MIT (.pdf ESD-WP-2009-08)
• An Algorithm and Metric for Network Decomposition from Similarity Matrices: Application to Positional Analyses
  by Mo-Han Hsieh, Engineering Systems Division, Massachusetts Institute of Technology and Christopher L. Magee, Engineering Systems Division & Department of Mechanical Engineering, Massachusetts Institute of Technology (.pdf ESD-WP-2007-13)
• 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)
• Connectivity Limits of Mechanical Assemblies Modeled as Networks
  by Daniel E. Whitney (.pdf ESD-WP-2004-07)
• Degree Correlations and Motifs in Technological Networks
  by Daniel E. Whitney (.pdf ESD-WP-2005-10)
• 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)
• Heterogeneity and Network Structure in the Dynamics of Diffusion: Comparing Agent-Based and Differential Equation Models
  by Hazhir Rahmandad and John Sterman (.pdf ESD-WP-2004-05)
• 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 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
• 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)
• 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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Organizational Issues

• 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)
• Combating System-Level Quality Problems in Complex Product Development
  by Daniel E. Whitney, Massachusetts Institute of Technology (.pdf ESD-WP-2007-12)
• 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: Learning from Organizational Experience
  by John S. Carroll, MIT, Jenny W. Rudolph, Boston College Carroll School of Management, and Sachi Hatakenaka, MIT (.pdf ESD-WP-2003-01.11)
• 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)
• 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)
• 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
• Technology-Enabled Strategy Development Alternatives for Surface Transportation
  By Travis P. Dunn and Joseph Sussman, MIT (.pdf ESD-WP-2008-19)
• 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)
• 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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Public Policy Regarding 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)
• America Disrupted: Dynamics of the Technical Capability Crisis
  by Dan Sturtevant (.pdf ESD-WP-2008-21)
• 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)
• Decision-Making in the Political and Technical Environments (.pdf ESD-WP-2006-20)
  by David André Broniatowski and Prof. Annalisa L. Wiegel
• 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)
• 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)
• 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)
• 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)
• 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)
• 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)
• 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)
• 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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Sociotechnical Issues

• 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
• 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)
• Engineering Responses to Pandemics
  by Richard Larson, MIT and Karima R. Nigmatulina, MIT (.pdf ESD-WP-2009-14)
• 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)
• 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)
• 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)
• Measuring Systems Engineering Success: Insights from Baseball
  by Craig Blackburn, MIT Lean Advancement Initiative and
  Ricardo Valerdi, MIT Lean Advancement Initiative (ESD-WP-2007-26)
• 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
• 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)
• 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)
• 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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System definitions/classifications/epistemology

• 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)
• Epistemology in Engineering Systems
  by Prof. Daniel D. Frey, MIT (.pdf ESD-WP-2003-10)
• ESD Internal Symposium: An Attempt at Complex System Classification
  by C. L. Magee and O. L. de Weck (.pdf ESD-WP-2003-01.02)
• ESD Internal Symposium: Bodies, Ideas, and Dynamics: Historical Perspectives on Systems Thinking in Engineering
  by David A. Mindell, MIT (.pdf ESD-WP-2003-01.23)
• ESD Internal Symposium: Defining Engineering Systems: Investigating National Missile Defense
  by Brian Zuckerman (.pdf ESD-WP-2003-01.12)
• ESD Internal Symposium: ESD Symposium Comittee Overview: Engineering Systems Research and Practie
  by ESD Symposium Committee (.pdf ESD-WP-2003-01.20)
• ESD Internal Symposium: The Anatomy of Large Scale Systems
  by Joel Moses, MIT (.pdf ESD-WP-2003-01.25)
• 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)
• ESD Terms and Definitions (Version 12)
  by ESD Symposium Committee: Tom Allen and Joel Moses, co-chairs, ESD Symposium Committee, Dan Hastings, Seth Lloyd, John Little, Don McGowan, Chris Magee, Fred Moavenzadeh, Debbie Nightingale, Dan Roos, Dan Whitney (.pdf ESD-WP-2002-01)
• 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)
• 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)
• 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 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)
• Toward Engineering Systems as a Discipline
  by Joseph M. Sussman, MIT (.html ESD-WP-2000-01, .pdf ESD-WP-2000-01)

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Systems Thinking

• 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)
• 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)
• 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: Bodies, Ideas, and Dynamics: Historical Perspectives on Systems Thinking in Engineering
  by David A. Mindell, MIT (.pdf ESD-WP-2003-01.23)
• ESD Internal Symposium: System Dynamics: Systems Thinking and Modeling for a Complex World
  by Joseph M. Sussman, MIT (.pdf ESD-WP-2003-01.13)
• 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)
• 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)
• 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)
• Teaching Systems Thinking to Engineering Undergraduates Using the CLIOS Process
  By Joseph Sussman, Massachusetts Institute of Technology (.pdf ESD-WP-2007-19)
• 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)
• 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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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)
• Degree Correlations and Motifs in Technological Networks
  by Daniel E. Whitney (.pdf ESD-WP-2005-10)
• ESD Internal Symposium: Nano-technology: a Disruptive Technology?
  by James M. Utterback and Happy J. Acee (.pdf ESD-WP-2003-01.15)
• 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)
• Role of Technology in Manufacturing Competitiveness
  by Professor Thomas Eagar and Christopher Musso, MIT (.pdf ESD-WP-2003-06)
• 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)
• 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)
• 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)
• 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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Transformation/Change

• 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)
• 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)
• 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)
• 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)
• 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)
• Measuring Systems Engineering Success: Insights from Baseball
  by Craig Blackburn, MIT Lean Advancement Initiative and
  Ricardo Valerdi, MIT Lean Advancement Initiative (ESD-WP-2007-26)
• 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)
• 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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