Engineering Systems Division: Recent submissions

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    • Extracting the Essence of Flexibility in System Design 

      Saleh, Joseph H.; Hastings, Daniel E.; Newman, Dava (Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Engineering Systems Division, 2001-08)
      The modest purpose of this paper is to review the concept of flexibility as discussed in various fields of investigations, and to extract its characteristic features. In order to discuss any subject matter clearly, it is ...

    • Initial Top-Level Characterization of the Air Force Sustainment System 

      Bozdogan, Kirk; Sussman, Joseph M.; Allen, Thomas J.; Harris, Wesley L. (Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Engineering Systems Division, 2001-04)
      This draft white paper presents an initial top-level characterization of the Air Force sustainment system. The first part of the paper gives an overview of the proposed conceptual framework for system characterization. The ...

    • Aircraft System and Product Development: Teaching the Conceptual Phase 

      Murman, Earll M.; Hansman, Robert J., Jr.; Clarke, John-Paul (Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Engineering Systems Division, 2001)
      This paper reports the first offering of a graduate level subject covering the conceptual phase of aircraft product development. The output of the conceptual phase is a system level specification that usually serves as the ...