Engineering Systems Division: Recent submissions

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    • Research Initiative to Understand & Model State Stability: Exploiting System Dynamics 

      Choucri, Nazli (Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Engineering Systems Division, 2005-02)
      In its Preface, The 9/11 Commission Report states: “We learned that the institutions charted with protecting …national security did not understand how grave this threat can be, and did not adjust their policies, plans, and ...

    • Model-Based Analysis of Socio-Technical Risk 

      Leveson, Nancy G. (Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Engineering Systems Division, 2004-12)
      Traditional approaches to hazard analysis and safety-related risk management are based on an accident model that focuses on failure events in static engineering designs and linear notions of causality. They are therefore ...

    • Connectivity Limits of Mechanical Assemblies Modeled as Networks 

      Whitney, Daniel E. (Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Engineering Systems Division, 2004-11)
      This paper applies network connectivity analysis to mechanical assemblies. Assemblies have extensive intentional structure while simultaneously displaying some of the properties of previously analyzed networks. Fundamental ...