This thesis solves a systems-engineering problem of quantifying what amount of integration is reasonable, prior to initiating a project to develop an integrated system. Systems-integration is a later engineering activity, most difficult to perform, often a large consumer of resources, and can be...
Businesses today face a wide variety of threats that include natural disasters, as well as technological and manmade disasters. Additionally, these businesses have a wide variety of potential preparedness measures to choose from when attempting to mitigate the impact of these disasters. In an...
System Engineering concepts have been successfully applied within the US Department of Defense (DoD) to manufacturing engineering development and management support programs for over four decades. For more than a decade Systems Engineering has been advocated within the DoD as a means to guide the...
The purpose of this study was to determine whether military organizations are achieving productivity gains by using the object-oriented method. Twenty projects from ten military organizations were used in the study. Each organization provided data on two homogeneous software projects--one...
We analyze the problem of generation capacity expansion and portfolio of technologies choice in a restructured electricity market in which marginal costs are uncertain. In our investment model, firms behave as Cournot players and they make three different decisions in equilibrium: (i) the...
The research problem that inspired this effort is the challenge of managing the security of systems in large-scale heterogeneous networked environments. Human intervention is slow and limited: humans operate at much slower speeds than networked computer communications and there are few humans...
In the six years following Hurricane Katrina, blame for response and relief failures has passed among local, state, and federal officials, first responders, national agencies, and non-profit organizations. Despite the preponderance of failure stories, there were both preparedness and response...
Petroleum releases from Underground Storage Tanks (USTs) and associated piping represent a major environmental threat to the nation's soil and groundwater. Leaking underground storage tanks (LUSTs) historically have been the nation's primary source of groundwater contamination. The U.S....