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METHODS/ PROCESSES

Agent-based Modeling

• 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)
• 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)
• 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)
• 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)
• 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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CLIOS Process

• 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: 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)
• Teaching Systems Thinking to Engineering Undergraduates Using the CLIOS Process
  By Joseph Sussman, Massachusetts Institute of Technology (.pdf ESD-WP-2007-19)

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Control engineering

• 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)

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Data Mining

• 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)
• 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)

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Design Structure Matrices

• 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)
• 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)
• Using Design Structure Matrices to Improve Decentralized Urban Transportation Systems
  by Travis P. Dunn and Joseph M. Sussman(.pdf ESD-WP-2005-08)

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Differential Equations

• 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)

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Economic Modeling

• A Comparison of GDP-Based Productivity in Ambulatory & Inpatient Healthcare: 1998-2005 (.pdf ESD-WP-2008-14)
• 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)
• 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)
• 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)
• GDP-Based Productivity in Ambulatory Healthcare: A Comparison with other Industry Segments, 1998-2005
  by David Hartzband, MIT (.pdf ESD-WP-2008-11)
• 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)
• 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)

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General (Methods/Process)

• 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)
• 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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Lean (Methods/Process)

• 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)
• 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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Modeling

• America Disrupted: Dynamics of the Technical Capability Crisis
  by Dan Sturtevant (.pdf ESD-WP-2008-21)
• 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)
• Engineering Responses to Pandemics
  by Richard Larson, MIT and Karima R. Nigmatulina, MIT (.pdf ESD-WP-2009-14)
• ESD Internal Symposium: Bits and Bucks: Modeling complex systems by information flow
  by Seth Llyod, MIT and Thomas Lloyd, McKinsey Los Angeles (.pdf ESD-WP-2003-01.17)
• 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)
• Global Outsourcing of Professional Services
  by Satwik Seshasai, MIT and IBM and Amar Gupta, MIT and University of Arizona (.pdf ESD-WP-2006-16)
• Holistic Trinity of Services Sciences: Management, Social, & Engineering Sciences
  by Richard C. Larson, Massachusetts Institute of Technology (.pdf ESD-WP-2007-18)
• 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)
• 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)
• 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)
• 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)
• 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)
• 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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Object Process Methodolgy (OPM)

• 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)

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Optimization

• 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)
• 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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Real Options

• A Classification of Uncertainty for Early Product and System Design
  by Olivier de Weck, Massachusetts Institute of Technology and Claudia Eckert, University of Cambridge (.pdf ESD-WP-2007-10)
• Building Real Options into Physical Systems with Stochastic Mixed-Integer Programming
  by Tao Wang and Richard de Neufville (.pdf ESD-WP-2005-05)
• 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)
• ESD Internal Symposium: Architecting/Designing Engineering Systems Using Real Options
  by Richard de Neufville, MIT (.pdf ESD-WP-2003-01.09)
• 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)
• 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)
• 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)
• Value-at-RiskAnalysis for Real Options in Complex Engineered Systems
  by Rania Hassan, Richard de Neufville, Olivier de Weck, Daniel Hastings, Douglas McKinnon (.pdf ESD-WP-2005-03)

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Risk Assessment

• A Methodology for the Identification of Critical Locations in Infrastructures
  by Douglas M. Lemon and George E. Apostolakis (ESD-WP-2004-01)
• 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)
• 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)
• How Useful is Quantitative Risk Assessment?
  by Professor George E. Apostolakis, MIT (ESD-WP-2003-05)
• Model-Based Analysis of Socio-Technical Risk1
  by Nancy G. Leveson, MIT (.pdf ESD-WP-2004-08)
• 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)
• 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)

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Scenario Planning

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Simulation

• 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)
• 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)
• Protecting the Force: Reducing Combat Vehicle Accidents via Improved Organizational Processes
  by Nathan A. Minami, MIT and Stuart Madnick, MIT (.pdf ESD-WP-2007-20)
• 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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STAMP

• Applying STAMP in Accident Analysis
  by Nancy Leveson, Mirna Daouk, Nicolas Dulac, and Karen Marais, MIT (.pdf ESD-WP-2003-02)

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Systems Analysis

• 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)
• 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)
• 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)
• 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)
• 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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System Dynamics

• Aircraft System and Product Development: Teaching the Conceptual Phase
  by Rachel Croson, Karen Donohue, Elena Katok and John Sterman (.pdf ESD-WP-2001-02)
• America Disrupted: Dynamics of the Technical Capability Crisis
  by Dan Sturtevant (.pdf ESD-WP-2008-21)
• 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)
• ESD Internal Symposium: System Dynamics: Systems Thinking and Modeling for a Complex World
  by Joseph M. Sussman, MIT (.pdf ESD-WP-2003-01.13)
• 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
• Research Initiative to Understand & Model State Stability: Exploiting System Dynamics
  by Nazli Choucri, Stuart E. Madnick, Michael D. Siegel (.html ESD-WP-2005-01, .pdf ESD-WP-2005-01)
• 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
• Understanding & Modeling State Stability: Exploiting System Dynamics
  Nazli Choucri, Christi Electris, Daniel Goldsmith, Dinsha Mistree, by Stuart E. Madnick, J. Bradley Morrison, Michael D. Siegel, Margaret Sweitzer-Hamilton, MIT Sloan School of Management (.pdf ESD-WP-2006-04)
• 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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Systems Engineering

• 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)
• 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)
• 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)
• 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)
• 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)
• 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)
• 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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Trade-off/Positional Analysis

• Trade-off/Positional Analysis (with a Rawlsian Approach to Equity) as an Alternative to Cost-Benefit Analysis (CBA) in Socio-technical Decisions
  by Ralph P. Hall and Nicholas A. Ashford (.pdf ESD-WP-2006-12)

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GENERAL TOPICS

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