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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:: Simulation, Soccer, Data, Markov, Modeling, and Sports
GW Unit:: Engineering Mgt and Systems Engineering
Degree:: Ph.D.
Advisor:: Mazzuchi, Thomas and Sarkani, Shahram
Committee Member(s):: Fomin, Pavel, Murphree, E. Lile, Tanju, Bereket, Sarkani, Shahram, and Mazuuchi, Thomas
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:: Mazzuchi, Thomas and Sarkani, Shahram
Committee Member(s):: Mazzuchi, Thomas, Murphree, E. Lile, Sarkani, Shahram, Dever, Jason, and Stuban, Steven
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:: Topic Model, Risk Assessment, and Software Selection
GW Unit:: Systems Engineering
Degree:: Ph.D.
Advisor:: Mazzuchi, Thomas and Sarkani, Shahram
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:: Risk Analysis, Networks, Game Theory, and Agent Based Simulation
GW Unit:: Engineering Mgt and Systems Engineering
Degree:: Ph.D.
Advisor:: Mazzuchi, Thomas and Sarkani, Shahram
Committee Member(s):: Mazzuchi, Thomas, Murphree, E. Lile, Sarkani, Shahram, Dever, Jason, 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:: ANP, Application-Benchmarking, Survey, Metrics, Cyber, and AAA
GW Unit:: Systems Engineering
Degree:: Ph.D.
Advisor:: Mazzuchi, Thomas and Sarkani, Shahram
Committee Member(s):: Doskey, Steven, Mazzuchi, Thomas, Murphree, E. Lile, Sarkani, Shahram, Dever, James, and Stuban, Steven M
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, COTS, component based system, and test and evaluation
GW Unit:: Engineering Mgt and Systems Engineering
Degree:: Ph.D.
Advisor:: Mazzuchi, Thomas and Sarkani, Shahram
Committee Member(s):: Blessner, Paul, Mazzuchi, Thomas, Murphree, E. Lile, Blackburn, Timothy, and Sarkani, Shahram
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:: Business Intelligence Systems, Intelligence Systems, Rationalization, Government Programs, Evidence-based Management, and Explicit Knowledge Objects
GW Unit:: Engineering Mgt and Systems Engineering
Degree:: Ph.D.
Advisor:: Mazzuchi, Thomas and Sarkani, Shahram
Committee Member(s):: Tanju, Bereket R., Murphree, E. Lile, Mazzuchi, Thomas A., Sarkani, Shahram, and Dever, Jason
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:: expert elicitation, pharmacy compounding, systems engineering, resource allocation, paired comparison, and risk assessment
GW Unit:: Engineering Mgt and Systems Engineering
Degree:: Ph.D.
Advisor:: Mazzuchi, Thomas and Sarkani, Shahram
Committee Member(s):: Fomin, Pavel, Murphree, E. Lile, and Stuban, Steven
Resource Type:: Thesis or Dissertation

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