Engineering Systems Division (ESD) Working Paper Series: Recent submissions

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    • Market-based valuation of transmission network expansion. A heuristic application in GB 

      Chamorro, Jose M.; Abadie, Luis M.; de Neufville, Richard; Ilic, Marija (Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Engineering Systems Division, 2011-12)
      Transmission investments are currently needed to meet an increasing electricity demand, to address security of supply concerns, and to reach carbon emissions targets. A key issue when assessing the benefits from an expanded ...

    • The Use of Safety Cases in Certification and Regulation 

      Leveson, Nancy G. (Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Engineering Systems Division, 2011-11)
      Certification of safety-critical systems is usually based on evaluation of whether a system or product reduces risk of specific losses to an acceptable level. There are major differences, however, in how that decision is ...

    • An approximate dynamic programming framework for modeling global climate policy under decision-dependent uncertainty 

      Webster, Mort; Santen, Nidhi R.; Parpas, Panos (Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Engineering Systems Division, 2011-09)
      Analyses of global climate policy as a sequential decision under uncertainty have been severely restricted by dimensionality and computational burdens. Therefore, they have limited the number of decision stages, discrete ...