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

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    • Simulating the Impact of Strategy Development Frameworks on Transportation Infrastructure System Performance 

      Dunn, Travis P.; Sussman, Joseph M. (Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Engineering Systems Division, 2010-08)
      This paper develops, through a simulation model, a deeper understanding of the relationship between transportation infrastructure strategy development frameworks and system performance. A strategy development framework for ...

    • Teaching about Complex Sociotechnical Systems (CSS) 

      Sussman, Joseph M. (Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Engineering Systems Division, 2010-07)
      Prof Chris Magee and I teach the doctoral seminar in engineering systems (ESD.83) required for all ESD doctoral students usually in the first semester they are registered as doctoral students. One of the assignments deals ...

    • Detecting Evolving Patterns of Self-Organizing Networks by Flow Hierarchy Measurement 

      Luo, Jianxi; Magee, Christopher L. (Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Engineering Systems Division, 2010-06)
      Hierarchies occur widely in evolving self-organizing ecological, biological, technological and social networks, but detecting and comparing hierarchies is difficult. Here we present a metric and technique to quantitatively ...