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Expert Judgment Model to Assess Cyber-Attack Scenarios on Enterprise Architectures

Description:: Cyber-attackers exploit people, processes, and technologies to steal high-value organizational data. The corresponding attacks are complex, cost organizations millions of dollars to resolve, and require rapid-response, architecture-based mitigation. Consequently, Cybersecurity strategies that...
Author:: Myauo, Michele
Keyword:: Portfolio Management, Systems Engineering, Cybersecurity, Expert Judgment, Enterprise Architecture, and Cyber-Attack
GW Unit:: Systems Engineering
Degree:: Ph.D.
Advisor:: Mazzuchi, Thomas A and Sarkani, Shahram
Committee Member(s):: Bischoff, John, Murphree, E. Lile, and Holzer, Thomas
Resource Type:: Thesis or Dissertation

Assessment of Complex Adaptive System Parameters Using a Learning Classifier System

Description:: This study is inspired by the current tendencies of technological changes. The main purpose of this study is to analyze the factors that impact the generation of change requirements, methods of measuring those changes and the impact of those changes on the evolution of a system. Although many...
Author:: Avalos, Jose
Keyword:: Telecommunication, Flexibility, Changeability, Learning Classifier System, Complex Adaptive System, and Requirement
GW Unit:: Systems Engineering
Degree:: Ph.D.
Advisor:: Roberts, Blake and Grenn, Michael
Committee Member(s):: Bischoff, John, Etemadi, Amir, Mazzuchi, Thomas, Grenn, Michael, and Sarkani, Shahram
Resource Type:: Thesis or Dissertation

Knowledge Management Barriers within Hardware Integration and Engineering Teams

Description:: Knowledge Management (KM) has been globally adopted by many enterprises and small teams to garner the benefits of identifying and organizing intellectual capital and enabling collaboration and innovation. Research and developments within KM is continuous which enhance practices to current users...
Author:: Norbert Jr., Nicholas S.
Keyword:: knowledge barriers, hardware engineering, engineering management, knowledge management, and systems engineering
GW Unit:: Engineering Management
Degree:: Ph.D.
Advisor:: Mazzuchi, Thomas and Sarkani, Shahram
Committee Member(s):: Bischoff, John and Etemadi, Amirhossein
Resource Type:: Thesis or Dissertation

Investigating the Impact of Teamwork Quality on the Effectiveness of Managing Multiple Projects in the Oil & Gas Industry

Description:: Managing multiple projects (MMP) is a current trend in project management. Thistype of management has become common in many industries, particularly in the oil andgas industry. It is not easy for one project manager to manage multiple projectssimultaneously and effectively. To date, there has...
Author:: Al Shatti, Lina Yousef
Keyword:: Multiple Project Manager, Managing Multiple Projects, Project Manager’s Learning, Project Management, Teamwork Quality, and Project Performance
GW Unit:: Engineering Management
Degree:: Ph.D.
Advisor:: Mazzuchi, Thomas and Sarkani, Shahram
Committee Member(s):: Willy, Christopher, Bischoff, John, and Etemadi, Amir
Resource Type:: Thesis or Dissertation

The Impact of an ISO 9000-Compliant Quality Management System on Product Quality from Suppliers in a DOD Procurement Environment

Description:: The ISO 9000 family of standards, first issued in 1987, has been accepted as the worldwide standard for quality management systems, having more than one million companies, representing 178 countries, registered to it as of 2009. Companies implement this standard either voluntarily and...
Author:: Blessner, Paul
Keyword:: Quality Management, ISO 9000, and Product Quality
GW Unit:: Engineering Mgt and Systems Engineering
Degree:: Ph.D.
Advisor:: Mazzuchi, Thomas A and Sarkani, Shahram
Committee Member(s):: Murphree, Jr., Lile and Bischoff, John
Resource Type:: Thesis or Dissertation

Multi-objective design methodology using decision & causal Bayesian belief networks for complex data centers focused on risk and cost

Description:: A multi-objective energy efficient and flexible data center design has been of interest for all in the industry that are familiar with data center costs. A survey of 416 CIO's conducted by the CIO Data center Strategies Survey, suggested that the data center operating costs are steady at 25% of...
Author:: Patel, Jayneel Jaydev
Keyword:: decision networks, data center operations, multi-objective design, and data center design
GW Unit:: Systems Engineering
Degree:: Ph.D.
Advisor:: Mazzuchi, Thomas and Sarkani, Shahram
Committee Member(s):: Bischoff, John, Dever, Jason, and Murphree, Lile
Resource Type:: Thesis or Dissertation

Simplifying Humanitarian Assistance/Disaster Relief Analytic Models Using Activity-Based Intelligence: Syrian Refugee Crisis as a Case Study

Description:: The purpose of this study was to propose an effective knowledge elicitation method and representation scheme that empowers humanitarian assistance/disaster relief (HA/DR) analysts and experts to create analytic models without the aid of data scientists and methodologists while addressing the...
Author:: Widener, Donald
Keyword:: Humanitarian Assistance, Activity-Based Intelligence, Mental Model, Expert Elicitation, and Analytic Model
GW Unit:: Systems Engineering
Degree:: Ph.D.
Advisor:: Mazzuchi, Thomas A and Sarkani, Shahram
Committee Member(s):: Bischoff, John, Etemadi, Amir, and Sarkani, Shahryar
Resource Type:: Thesis or Dissertation

REDUCING HUMAN/PILOT ERROR IN AVIATION USING AUGMENTED COGNITION AND AUTOMATION SYSTEMS IN AIRCRAFT COCKPIT

Description:: The majority of aviation accidents are caused by human error. Augmentedcognition and automation systems enhance pilot performance by evaluatingsystem limitations and flight precision and performance. This study examines thehuman-machine interface in cockpit design using the tenets of...
Author:: Naranji, Ehsan
Keyword:: Augmented Cognition, Human Factors in Aviation, Aviation Accidents, Systems Engineering, Automation in Aviation, and Human-Machine Integration
GW Unit:: Systems Engineering
Degree:: Ph.D.
Advisor:: Mazzuchi, Thomas A. and Sarkani, Shahram
Committee Member(s):: Bischoff, John, Murphree, E. Lile, Mazzuchi, Thomas A., Willy, Christopher, and Sarkani, Shahram
Resource Type:: Thesis or Dissertation

Complex Acquisition Requirements Analysis Using a Systems Engineering Approach

Description:: Over the last several decades the technology revolution has compounded system complexity with the integration of multi-spectral sensors and interactive command and control systems. These complexities create additional challenges for requirement developers to produce an encompassing set of...
Author:: Stuckey, Richard M
Keyword:: System of Systems, Systems Engineering, Complex Systems, and Requirements
GW Unit:: Systems Engineering
Degree:: Ph.D.
Advisor:: Mazzuchi, Thomas A and Sarkani, Shahram
Committee Member(s):: Bischoff, John, Holzer, Thomas, and Murphree, E Lile
Resource Type:: Thesis or Dissertation

Developing A Cost Overrun Predictive Model for Complex Systems Development Projects

Description:: While system complexity is on the rise across many product lines, the resources required to successfully design and implement complex systems remain constrained. Because financiers of complex systems development efforts actively monitor project implementation cost, project performance models are...
Author:: Adoko, Moses
Keyword:: Complex Systems, Schedule, TRL, Systems Engineering, Predictive Model, and Cost Overrun
GW Unit:: Engineering Mgt and Systems Engineering
Degree:: Ph.D.
Advisor:: Mazzuchi, Thomas and Sarkani, Shahram
Committee Member(s):: Murphree, Lile E., Mazzuchi, Thomas, Holzer, Thomas, Sarkani, Shahram, and Bischoff, John
Resource Type:: Thesis or Dissertation

A Quantitative Risk Analysis Framework for Evaluating and Monitoring Operational Reliability of Cloud Computing

Description:: Cloud computing offers the advantage of on-demand, reliable and cost efficient computing solutions without the capital investment and management resources to build and maintain in-house data centers and network infrastructures. Scalability of cloud solutions enable consumers to upgrade or...
Author:: Islam, Muhammad
Keyword:: Risk Analysis, Monte Carlo Simulation, Information Security, Security Controls, Reliability, and Cloud Computing
GW Unit:: Engineering Mgt and Systems Engineering
Degree:: Ph.D.
Advisor:: Mazzuchi, Thomas A and Sarkani, Shahram
Committee Member(s):: Bischoff, John, Murphree, Edward L, and Green, Ronzelle
Resource Type:: Thesis or Dissertation

The Effect of Mission Assurance on ELV Launch Success Rate: An Analysis of Two Management Systems for Launch Vehicles

Description:: There are significant challenges involved in regulating the growing commercial human spaceflight industry. The safety of the crew and passengers should be protected; however, care should be taken not to overburden the industry with too many or too stringent, or perhaps inapplicable,...
Author:: Leung, Raymond
Keyword:: NASA, FAA, Human Spaceflight, and Mission Assurance
GW Unit:: Engineering Mgt and Systems Engineering
Degree:: Ph.D.
Advisor:: Mazzuchi, Thomas A and Sarkani, Shahram
Committee Member(s):: Murphree, E. Lile, Bischoff, John, and Dever, Jason
Resource Type:: Thesis or Dissertation

Seeking an Online Social Media Radar

Description:: PurposeThe purpose of this paper is to explore how the application of Systems Engineering tools and techniques can be applied to rapidly process and analyze the vast amounts of data present in social media in order to yield practical knowledge for Command and Control (C2)...
Author:: ter Veen, James
Keyword:: social media, crowd size, occupy movement, social network analysis, and systems engineering
GW Unit:: Engineering Mgt and Systems Engineering
Degree:: Ph.D.
Advisor:: Mazzuchi, Thomas and Sarkani, Shahram
Committee Member(s):: Bischoff, John, Dever, John, and Murphree, E L
Resource Type:: Thesis or Dissertation

An Integrated Cost and Performance Model to Inform Capability Selection During Early-Phase Systems Engineering: Case Analysis and Multi-Objective Optimization

Description:: Functionality and performance have been key elements of requirements generation for major systems, especially within the Department of Defense (DoD). However, rising cost growth rates and decreasing funding has led to legislation requiring DoD to factor cost into requirements selection and to...
Author:: DeVilliers, Edward Michael
Keyword:: Requirements generation, Optimization, Case analysis, Linear Physical Programming, Affordability, and Cost estimation
GW Unit:: Engineering Mgt and Systems Engineering
Degree:: Ph.D.
Advisor:: Mazzuchi, Thomas A and Sarkani, Shahram
Committee Member(s):: Willy, Christopher, Murphree, E L, and Bischoff, John
Resource Type:: Thesis or Dissertation

How to Catch a Black Swan: Measuring the Benefits of the Premortem Technique for Risk Identification

Description:: Risk identification is the most important step in the risk management process because risks that are unidentified are implicitly assumed and unmanaged. Projects face the challenge of increasing complexity and uncertainty. Risk management has taken advantage of powerful quantitative tools to...
Author:: Gallop, David Lewis
Keyword:: Brainstorming, Black Swan, Premortem Technique, Team-Based Experiments, Risk Identification, and Deliberate Ignorance
GW Unit:: Systems Engineering
Degree:: Ph.D.
Advisor:: Bischoff, John and Willy, Christopher
Committee Member(s):: Bischoff, John, Murphree, E. Lile, Mazzuchi, Thomas, Sarkani, Sharam, and Willy, Christopher
Resource Type:: Thesis or Dissertation

Effects of Geographic and Demographic Dispersion on the Performance of Systems Engineering Teams

Description:: Effects of Geographic and Demographic Dispersion on the Performance of Systems Engineering TeamsGlobalization and the increasing complexity of systems require collaboration across multidisciplinary teams. Systems Engineering (SE) teams are often geographically and demographically dispersed; such...
Author:: Segura Morales, Marco Antonio
Keyword:: Engineering Teams, Geographic Dispersion, Demographic Dispersion, and Team Performance
GW Unit:: Engineering Mgt and Systems Engineering
Degree:: Ph.D.
Advisor:: Mazzuchi, Thomas and Sarkani, Shahram
Committee Member(s):: Bischoff, John, Dever, Jason, and Murphree, Lile
Resource Type:: Thesis or Dissertation

Performance Modeling and Analysis of IPv6 Transition Mechanisms over MPLS

Description:: Exhaustion of current version of Internet Protocol version 4 (IPv4) addresses initiated development of next-generation Internet Protocol version 6 (IPv6) [82, 83]. IPv6 is acknowledged to provide more address space, better address design, and greater security; however, IPv6 and IPv4 are not fully...
Author:: Grayeli, Parisa
Keyword:: IPv6
GW Unit:: School of Engineering and Applied Science
Degree:: Ph.D.
Advisor:: Mazzuchi, Thomas and Sarkani, Shahram
Committee Member(s):: Murphree, Lile and Bischoff, John
Resource Type:: Thesis or Dissertation

Increasing Research Productivity: The Impact of Knowledge Management

Description:: Universities are havens for research development, with access to facilities, equipment, and, most importantly, people; idea exchange and knowledge development create an environment that is conducive to the growth of research productivity. The outcome of this productivity is contingent upon the...
Author:: Hossain, Nargis
Keyword:: Knowledge Managment, SharePoint, ANOVA, University, Innovation, and Research Productivity
GW Unit:: Engineering Mgt and Systems Engineering
Degree:: Ph.D.
Advisor:: Bischoff, John
Committee Member(s):: Bischoff, John, Murphree, E. Lile, Willy, Christopher, Sarkani, Shahram, and Mazzuchi, Thomas
Resource Type:: Thesis or Dissertation

Analysis of Perceived Challenges Experienced by Small Businesses Competing for Department of Defense Contracts

Description:: Department of Defense (DoD) leadership released the Better Buying Power initiatives to help DoD do more with less. A key tenet of these initiatives is to increase small business roles in DoD contracting opportunities. Reasons for increasing small business opportunities include promoting...
Author:: Schilling IV, Ronnie
Keyword:: Better Buying Power, competition, Department of Defense, small business, and contract challenges
GW Unit:: Systems Engineering
Degree:: Ph.D.
Advisor:: Murphree, Lile
Committee Member(s):: Mazzuchi, Thomas, Holzer, Thomas, Sarkani, Shahram, and Bischoff, John
Resource Type:: Thesis or Dissertation

The Relationship of Technology and Design Maturity to DoD Weapon System Cost Change and Schedule Change During Engineering and Manufacturing Development

Description:: Every year, the Department of Defense (DoD) invests billions of dollars on the development of major defense acquisition programs. In return, many of these weapon systems have been plagued with cost overruns and schedule delays during the Engineering and Manufacturing Development phase. Under...
Author:: Katz, Daniel Ross
Keyword:
GW Unit:: Engineering Mgt and Systems Engineering
Degree:: Ph.D.
Advisor:: Mazzuchi, Thomas A and Sarkani, Shahram
Committee Member(s):: Bischoff, John, Murphee, E. Lile, and Dever, Jason
Resource Type:: Thesis or Dissertation

Expert Judgment Model to Assess Cyber-Attack Scenarios on Enterprise Architectures

Assessment of Complex Adaptive System Parameters Using a Learning Classifier System

Knowledge Management Barriers within Hardware Integration and Engineering Teams

Investigating the Impact of Teamwork Quality on the Effectiveness of Managing Multiple Projects in the Oil & Gas Industry

The Impact of an ISO 9000-Compliant Quality Management System on Product Quality from Suppliers in a DOD Procurement Environment

Multi-objective design methodology using decision & causal Bayesian belief networks for complex data centers focused on risk and cost

Simplifying Humanitarian Assistance/Disaster Relief Analytic Models Using Activity-Based Intelligence: Syrian Refugee Crisis as a Case Study

REDUCING HUMAN/PILOT ERROR IN AVIATION USING AUGMENTED COGNITION AND AUTOMATION SYSTEMS IN AIRCRAFT COCKPIT

Complex Acquisition Requirements Analysis Using a Systems Engineering Approach

Developing A Cost Overrun Predictive Model for Complex Systems Development Projects

A Quantitative Risk Analysis Framework for Evaluating and Monitoring Operational Reliability of Cloud Computing

The Effect of Mission Assurance on ELV Launch Success Rate: An Analysis of Two Management Systems for Launch Vehicles

Seeking an Online Social Media Radar

An Integrated Cost and Performance Model to Inform Capability Selection During Early-Phase Systems Engineering: Case Analysis and Multi-Objective Optimization

How to Catch a Black Swan: Measuring the Benefits of the Premortem Technique for Risk Identification

Effects of Geographic and Demographic Dispersion on the Performance of Systems Engineering Teams

Performance Modeling and Analysis of IPv6 Transition Mechanisms over MPLS

Increasing Research Productivity: The Impact of Knowledge Management

Analysis of Perceived Challenges Experienced by Small Businesses Competing for Department of Defense Contracts

The Relationship of Technology and Design Maturity to DoD Weapon System Cost Change and Schedule Change During Engineering and Manufacturing Development

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