ESD Working Paper Series Topic

SYSTEM CHARACTERISTICS
Complexity Flexibility “ilities” Modularity Robustness	Stability State Stability Sustainability Uncertainty

METHODS/ PROCESSES
Agent-based Modeling CLIOS Process Control engineering Design Structure Matrices Differential Equations Economic Modeling EVSMA General Lean Modeling	Optimization Real Options Risk Assessment Scenario Planning Simulation STAMP Systems Analysis System Dynamics Systems Engineering Trade-off/Positional Analysis

APPLICATIONS
Aerospace Building Technology Defense Energy Environment Health Information Technology Infrastructure Intelligent Transportation Systems (ITS)	IT/Knowledge Management Lean Manufacturing National Security Product Development Public Systems Safety/Security Supply Chain Management Telecommunications Transportation

GENERAL TOPICS
Architecture Competitiveness Design Education ESD Symposium Industry/ Academic Interactions Networks Organizational Issues	Public Policy Regarding Technology Sociotechnical Issues System definitions/ classifications/ epistemology Systems Thinking Technology Transformation/ Change

SYSTEM CHARACTERISTICS

Complexity

Combating System-Level Quality Problems in Complex Product Development
by Daniel E. Whitney, Massachusetts Institute of Technology (.pdf ESD-WP-2007-12)
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)
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: 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)
ESD Internal Symposium: Collected Views on Complexity in Systems
by Joseph M. Sussman, MIT (.pdf ESD-WP-2003-01.06)
ESD Internal Symposium: Complex systems: a review
by Seth Lloyd, MIT (.pdf ESD-WP-2003-01.16)
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)
Ideas on Complexity in Systems – Twenty Views
by Joseph M. Sussman, MIT (.html ESD-WP-2000-02, .pdf ESD-WP-2000-02)
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)
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 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)
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)

Flexibility

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)
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)
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)
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)
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)
Extracting the Essence of Flexibility in System Design
by Joseph H. Saleh, Daniel E. Hastings, and Dava J. Newman (.pdf ESD-WP-2001-04)
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)
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)

“ilities”

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)

Modularity

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)
ESD Internal Symposium: Physical Limits to Modularity
by Daniel E. Whitney (.pdf ESD-WP-2003-01.03)
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)
Three Perspectives on Modularity – A Literature Review of a Product Concept for Assembled Hardware Products
by Sebastian Fixson (.pdf ESD-WP-2001-06)

Robustness

Stability

ESD Internal Symposium: The Impact of Instability on Complex Social and Technical Systems
by Joel Cutcher-Gershenfeld and Eric Rebentisch (.pdf ESD-WP-2003-01.21)

State Stability

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)

Sustainability

Promoting the Concept of Sustainable Transportation within the by Federal System - The Need to Reinvent the U.S. DOT
Ralph P. Hall and Joseph M. Sussman (.pdf ESD-WP-2006-13)
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)

Uncertainty

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)
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)
Building Real Options into Physical Systems with Stochastic Mixed-Integer Programming
by Tao Wang and Richard de Neufville, MIT (.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: 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 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)
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)
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)
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)

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)

CLIOS Process

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)

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)

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)

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)

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)

EVSMA

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)

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)

Modeling

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)
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)

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)

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)

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)

Scenario Planning

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)
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
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

STAMP

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

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)

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)
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)
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)

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 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)

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)

APPLICATIONS

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 al