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Description:: Soccer is the most popular sport worldwide. Over time, the importance of soccer has grown beyond the sports domain, making it a large industry, a source of national pride, and the center of public attention in most countries. Due to this increased significance, it is highly important for soccer...
Author:: Jarvandi, Ali
Keyword:: Data, Soccer, Modeling, Markov, Simulation, and Sports
GW Unit:: Engineering Mgt and Systems Engineering
Degree:: Ph.D.
Advisor:: Sarkani, Shahram and Mazzuchi, Thomas
Committee Member(s):: Murphree, E. Lile, Sarkani, Shahram, Mazuuchi, Thomas, Tanju, Bereket, and Fomin, Pavel
Resource Type:: Thesis or Dissertation

Description:: Systems engineers are faced with the challenge of adhering to broad systems engineering policies, while simultaneously tailoring systems engineering processes to meet the unique challenges facing their projects. Tailoring is often performed ad hoc, and determining which stages, steps, and...
Author:: Graviss, Matthew
Keyword:: Process Tailoring and Systems Engineering
GW Unit:: Engineering Mgt and Systems Engineering
Degree:: Ph.D.
Advisor:: Sarkani, Shahram and Mazzuchi, Thomas
Committee Member(s):: Dever, Jason, Murphree, E. Lile, Stuban, Steven, Sarkani, Shahram, and Mazzuchi, Thomas
Resource Type:: Thesis or Dissertation

Description:: Often, multiple software products exist on the same server and vulnerability in one product compromises the entire system. It is imperative then, to perform a security risk assessment when selecting the software products that will become part of a larger system. Having a quantitative security...
Author:: Das, Ruma
Keyword:: Software Selection, Topic Model, and Risk Assessment
GW Unit:: Systems Engineering
Degree:: Ph.D.
Advisor:: Sarkani, Shahram and Mazzuchi, Thomas
Committee Member(s):: Fomin, Paul, Murphree, E. Lile, and Wasek, James
Resource Type:: Thesis or Dissertation

Description:: This dissertation presents research that focuses on efficient allocation of defense resources to minimize the damage inflicted on a spatially distributed physical network such as a pipeline, water system, or power distribution system from an attack by an active adversary. The allocation...
Author:: Kroshl, William Mark
Keyword:: Networks, Agent Based Simulation, Risk Analysis, and Game Theory
GW Unit:: Engineering Mgt and Systems Engineering
Degree:: Ph.D.
Advisor:: Sarkani, Shahram and Mazzuchi, Thomas
Committee Member(s):: Dever, Jason, Murphree, E. Lile, Sarkani, Shahram, Mazzuchi, Thomas, and Fomin, Pavel
Resource Type:: Thesis or Dissertation

Description:: Cyber-attacks have escalated, causing decision makers to assess the trade-offs required to protect their organizations from such attacks. The use of benchmarking techniques to reduce cyber security risks would allow decision makers to use both qualitative and quantitative analyses. Systems...
Author:: Wilamowski, George Christopher
Keyword:: Metrics, ANP, Application-Benchmarking, AAA, Survey, and Cyber
GW Unit:: Systems Engineering
Degree:: Ph.D.
Advisor:: Sarkani, Shahram and Mazzuchi, Thomas
Committee Member(s):: Stuban, Steven M, Murphree, E. Lile, Doskey, Steven, Dever, James, Sarkani, Shahram, and Mazzuchi, Thomas
Resource Type:: Thesis or Dissertation

Description:: In recent years, with budgetary constraints and ever-changing mission requirements, the government and private industries have shifted their focus towards component based system development. The development of systems with commercial off-the-shelf components expedites the development process and...
Author:: Kafle, Subash
Keyword:: component testing and integration, test and evaluation, COTS, and component based system
GW Unit:: Engineering Mgt and Systems Engineering
Degree:: Ph.D.
Advisor:: Sarkani, Shahram and Mazzuchi, Thomas
Committee Member(s):: Blackburn, Timothy, Murphree, E. Lile, Sarkani, Shahram, Mazzuchi, Thomas, and Blessner, Paul
Resource Type:: Thesis or Dissertation

Description:: Summary of contributions of this study: This study contributes new knowledge regarding the prescriptive utility of business intelligence systems and explicit knowledge objects in evidence-based management, and proposes a framework to better facilitate the management of business intelligence...
Author:: Sapp, Carlton Emory
Keyword:: Rationalization, Business Intelligence Systems, Intelligence Systems, Evidence-based Management, Explicit Knowledge Objects, and Government Programs
GW Unit:: Engineering Mgt and Systems Engineering
Degree:: Ph.D.
Advisor:: Sarkani, Shahram and Mazzuchi, Thomas
Committee Member(s):: Dever, Jason, Tanju, Bereket R., Murphree, E. Lile, Sarkani, Shahram, and Mazzuchi, Thomas A.
Resource Type:: Thesis or Dissertation

Description:: In 2012, improperly compounded sterile products caused an outbreak of fungal meningitis and other fungal infections to become the largest outbreak of healthcare-associated infections in the United States. This outbreak, along with other adverse events associated with larger compounders...
Author:: Okwesili, Paul
Keyword:: pharmacy compounding, paired comparison, resource allocation, expert elicitation, risk assessment, and systems engineering
GW Unit:: Engineering Mgt and Systems Engineering
Degree:: Ph.D.
Advisor:: Sarkani, Shahram and Mazzuchi, Thomas
Committee Member(s):: Murphree, E. Lile, Stuban, Steven, and Fomin, Pavel
Resource Type:: Thesis or Dissertation

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