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A New Integration-Difficulty Metric for Assessing the Integration of Independent Systems

Description:: 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...
Author:: Nueslein, Michael David
Keyword:: Integration Metric, System of Systems, Complex Systems, Systems Engineering, Systems Integration, and Modularity
GW Unit:: Engineering Mgt and Systems Engineering
Degree:: Ph.D.
Advisor:: Eisner, Howard
Committee Member(s):: Stankosky, Michael A, Hybertson, Duane W, Murphree, E. Lile, and Duffey, Michael R
Resource Type:: Thesis or Dissertation

Modeling Team-Compatibility Factors Using a Semi-Markov Decision Process: A Framework for Performance Analysis in Soccer

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

Analyzing Complex Systems Using an Integrated Multi-scale Systems Approach

Description:: Many industries, such as healthcare, transportation, education, and other fields that involve large corporations and institutions, are complex systems composed of many diverse interacting components. Frequently, to improve performance within these industries, to move into new markets, or to...
Author:: Ravitz, Alan D.
Keyword:: Multi-scale Modeling and Simulation, Systems Approach, Complex Systems, and Systems Engineering
GW Unit:: Engineering Mgt and Systems Engineering
Degree:: Ph.D.
Advisor:: Sarkani, Shahram and Mazzuchi, Thomas A.
Committee Member(s):: Blackburn, Timothy, Murphree, E. Lile, and Stuban, Steven
Resource Type:: Thesis or Dissertation

A System Dynamics Approach to Understanding the Long-Term Effects of Requirement Changes and Unit Quantity Changes during DoD Acquisition

Description:: Cost overruns within the Department of Defense (DoD) acquisitions are widespread and have come to be accepted by program managers as a daunting challenge. A study of 35 major defense acquisition programs has identified requirement changes and unit quantity changes as the two main decision factors...
Author:: Shin, Daniel
Keyword:: Requirement Changes, Unit Quantity Changes, System Dynamics, Cost Overrun, and DoD Acquisition
GW Unit:: Engineering Mgt and Systems Engineering
Degree:: Ph.D.
Advisor:: Wasek, James S and Fomin, Pavel
Committee Member(s):: Murphree, E. Lile, Wasek, James S, Tanju, Bereket, Mazzuchi, Thomas, and Sarkani, Shahram
Resource Type:: Thesis or Dissertation

The Association of Knowledge Management and Project Management: An Enterprise-wide Approach Based on Stankosky’s Four Pillar of Knowledge Management and PMI’s Project Management Knowledge Areas

Description:: There are few studies investigating the association between enterprise-level knowledge management (KM) and project management (PM). Though few, these research studies have demonstrated that the available PM methods and approaches do not adequately include the necessary processes to derive maximum...
Author:: Oun, Tariq Ahmed
Keyword:: Performance measures, Project management, Project management knowledge areas, Knowledge management, and Project success
GW Unit:: Engineering Mgt and Systems Engineering
Degree:: Ph.D.
Advisor:: Blackburn, Timothy D. and Olson, Bill A.
Committee Member(s):: Mazzuchi, Thomas Andrew, Murphree, E. Lile, and Sarkani, Shahram
Resource Type:: Thesis or Dissertation

Tailoring a Large Organization’s Systems Engineering Process to Meet Project-Specific Needs

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

Quality by Design (QbD) and Production System Fundamental Sigma Limits with a Pharmaceutical Industry Example

Description:: Quality by Design (QbD) has been recognized as a superior manufacturing approach versus attempting to test in quality. Without designing for quality, the level of quality attainment (defect-free product) has been observed to plateau well short of six sigma, and efforts to further improve quality...
Author:: Blackburn, Timothy Dean
Keyword:: S-Curves, Six Sigma, QbD, Systems Engineering, Fundamental Limits, and TRIZ
GW Unit:: Engineering Mgt and Systems Engineering
Degree:: Ph.D.
Advisor:: Mazzuchi, Thomas A and Sarkani, Shahram
Committee Member(s):: Murphree, E. Lile, Eveleigh, Timothy, and Holzer, Thomas H.
Resource Type:: Thesis or Dissertation

Modeling Mass Collaboration Networks to Investigate Innovation Drivers and Manage Innovation Potential

Description:: There is a paucity of research that empirically substantiates the theories presented in innovation driver literature to real-world user innovation networks. Trending hackathon-style mass collaboration events provide a microcosm in which to observe innovation as it happens. NASA’s International...
Author:: Senghore, Fatima
Keyword:: mass collaboration, affiliation networks, systems engineering, user innovation networks, user innovation, and social network analysis
GW Unit:: Engineering Mgt and Systems Engineering
Degree:: Ph.D.
Advisor:: Wasek, James
Committee Member(s):: Blessner, Paul, Murphree, E. Lile, Sarkani, Shahram, Mazzuchi, Thomas, and Wasek, James
Resource Type:: Thesis or Dissertation

Use of Multi-Fidelity and Surrogate Models to Reduce the Cost of Developing Physics-Based Systems

Description:: Building complex physics-based systems in a timely cost-effective manner, that perform well, meet diverse user needs, and have no bad emergent behaviors is a challenge. To meet these requirements the solution is to model the physics-based system before building it. Modeling and Simulation...
Author:: Hebert, James Leland
Keyword:: Models, Surrogate Models, Systems Engineering, Kriging, FDTD, and Multi-Fidelity
GW Unit:: Engineering Mgt and Systems Engineering
Degree:: Ph.D.
Advisor:: Sarkani, Shahryar and Eveleigh, Timothy
Committee Member(s):: Murphree, E. Lile, Sarkani, Shahryar, Sarkani, Shahram, Eveleigh, Timothy, and Mazzuchi, Thomas
Resource Type:: Thesis or Dissertation

Self-organization and Sense-making in Architect-Engineer Design Teams: Leveraging Health Care’s Approach to “Managing” Complex Adaptive Systems

Description:: Traditional, corporate-level risk mitigation procedures and management-led performance improvement efforts tend to ignore the relationship dynamics of Architect-Engineer design teams, and instead focus on the credentials and abilities of the individual designers, the contractual framework...
Author:: Sprauer, William A.
Keyword:: Adaptive, Self-organization, Sense-making, Architect-Engineer, Complex, and Systems
GW Unit:: Engineering Mgt and Systems Engineering
Degree:: Ph.D.
Advisor:: Blackburn, Timothy D.
Committee Member(s):: Murphree, E. Lile, Stuban, Steven, Sarkani, Shahram, and Mazzuchi, Thomas
Resource Type:: Thesis or Dissertation

Risk Matrix Analysis Using Copulas

Description:: In this research, a framework is developed to determine the best design of risk matrices based on Cox's (2008) approach, where the performance of a risk matrix is evaluated through the probability of elimination error value. The development of research requires extension of Cox's (2008) approach...
Author:: Hong, Xing
Keyword:: copula, qualitative risk analysis, and risk matrix
GW Unit:: Engineering Mgt and Systems Engineering
Degree:: Ph.D.
Advisor:: Mazzuchi, Thomas A.
Committee Member(s):: Soyer, Refik, Van Dorp, Johan R., Shaw, Gregory L., and Murphree, E. Lile
Resource Type:: Thesis or Dissertation

Validating the Use of Performance Risk Indices for System-Level Risk and Maturity Assessments

Description:: With pressure on the U.S. Defense Acquisition System (DAS) to reduce cost overruns and schedule delays, system engineers’ performance is only as good as their tools. Recent literature details a need for 1) objective, analytical risk quantification methodologies over traditional subjective...
Author:: Holloman, Sherrica
Keyword:: Project Management, Maturity Assessments, System Performance, Risk Management, Performance Risk Index, and Systems Engineering
GW Unit:: Engineering Mgt and Systems Engineering
Degree:: Ph.D.
Advisor:: Stuban, Steven M. F.
Committee Member(s):: Blackburn, Timothy, Murphree, E. Lile, Sarkani, Shahram, and Mazzuchi, Thomas
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:: FAA, Human Spaceflight, Mission Assurance, and NASA
GW Unit:: Engineering Mgt and Systems Engineering
Degree:: Ph.D.
Advisor:: Mazzuchi, Thomas A and Sarkani, Shahram
Committee Member(s):: Dever, Jason, Murphree, E. Lile, and Bischoff, John
Resource Type:: Thesis or Dissertation

ENABLERS AND CHALLENGES IN USING ENTERPRISE ARCHITECTURE CONCEPTS TO DRIVE TRANSFORMATION: PERSPECTIVES FROM PRIVATE ORGANIZATIONS AND GOVERNMENT AGENCIES

Description:: Federal Agencies and Private companies have many strategic initiatives they pursue in order to realize their visions. Due to the complexity of the strategic initiatives, there is a growing need for research on how enterprise architects and leaders should go about leading modernization and...
Author:: Asfaw, Tamrat
Keyword:: Strategic Initiatives, Management Instrument, Enterprise Architecture, Transformation, and Enterprise Architect
GW Unit:: Engineering Mgt and Systems Engineering
Degree:: Ph.D.
Advisor:: Bada, Abiodun O. and Murphree, E. Lile
Committee Member(s):: Bada, Abiodun O., Allario, Frank, Murphree, E. Lile, and Stankosky, Michael A,
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:: ANOVA, Innovation, University, Knowledge Managment, SharePoint, and Research Productivity
GW Unit:: Engineering Mgt and Systems Engineering
Degree:: Ph.D.
Advisor:: Bischoff, John
Committee Member(s):: Murphree, E. Lile, Willy, Christopher, Sarkani, Shahram, Bischoff, John, and Mazzuchi, Thomas
Resource Type:: Thesis or Dissertation

Allocation of Resources to Defend Spatially Distributed Networks Using Game Theoretic Allocations

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

A Systems Engineering Framework for Implementing a Security and Critical Patch Management Process in Diverse Environments (Academic Departments' Workstations)

Description:: AbstractA Systems Engineering Framework for Implementing aSecurity and Critical Patch Management Process in Diverse Environments(Academic Departments' Workstations)Use of the Patch Vulnerability Management (PVM) process should be seriously considered for any networked computing system. The PVM...
Author:: Mohammadi, Hadi
Keyword:: Patch Management, Vulnerability, Maintenance optimization, Systems Engineering, and Security
GW Unit:: Engineering Mgt and Systems Engineering
Degree:: Ph.D.
Advisor:: Sarkani, Shahram and Mazzuchi, Thomas A.
Committee Member(s):: Dever, Jason, Murphree, E. Lile, Sarkani, Shahram, Bischoff, John, and Mazzuchi, Thomas A.
Resource Type:: Thesis or Dissertation

Rapid Cost Estimation for Storm Recovery Using Geographic Information System

Description:: The present research introduces a new approach to estimate the recovery costs of public property in the aftermath of a storm, by integrating Geographic Information Systems (GIS). Estimating recovery costs for a disaster is a current concern for emergency responders. This work focuses on applying...
Author:: Berrios-Montero, Rolando A.
Keyword:: FEMA, Geographic Information Systems, Recovery, GIS, Hurricanes, and Cost Estimation
GW Unit:: Engineering Mgt and Systems Engineering
Degree:: Ph.D.
Advisor:: Dever, Jason and Stuban, Steven M. F.
Committee Member(s):: Murphree, E. Lile, Sarkani, Shahram, Stuban, Steve M. F., Mazzuchi, Thomas, and Fomin, Pavel
Resource Type:: Thesis or Dissertation

System Goodput (GS): A Modeling and Simulation Approach to Refute Current Thinking Regarding System Level Quality of Service

Description:: This dissertation represents a modeling and simulation approach toward determining whether distributed computing architectures (e.g., Cloud Computing) require state of the art servers to ensure top performance, and whether alternate approaches can result in optimized Quality of Service by...
Author:: Sahlin, John Patrick
Keyword:: quality of service QoS, modeling and simulation, systems dynamics, computer architecture, distributed computing, and cloud computing
GW Unit:: Engineering Mgt and Systems Engineering
Degree:: Ph.D.
Advisor:: Mazzuchi, Thomas A and Sarkani, Shahram
Committee Member(s):: Murphree, E. Lile and Wasek, James
Resource Type:: Thesis or Dissertation

Implications of National Culture on Knowledge Management: A cross-cultural analysis of Italian and American perceptions

Description:: Knowledge management (KM) has become an increasingly important aspect for achieving and maintaining competitive advantage across all types of organizations and businesses worldwide. However only limited research is available to understand how KM may be influenced by national culture. This...
Author:: de Leo, Francesco
Keyword:: international organizations, United States of America, knowledge management, uncertainty avoidance, Italy, and national culture
GW Unit:: Engineering Mgt and Systems Engineering
Degree:: Ph.D.
Advisor:: Stankosky, Michael and Murphree, E. Lile
Committee Member(s):: Stankosky, Michael, Shaw, Gregory, Murphree, E. Lile, Calabrese, Francesco, Mazzuchi, Thomas, and Hasan, Sharjil
Resource Type:: Thesis or Dissertation

The Role of System Thinking Development and Experiential Learning on Enterprise Transformation

Description:: The recent economic downturn has had global repercussions in all businesses alike. Competition is fierce and a survival of the fittest model is always present; fast delivery times and innovative designs ultimately translate into the enterprises' bottom line. In such market conditions, enterprises...
Author:: Lopez, Gabriel
Keyword:: transformation, system-thinking, knowledge transfer, apprenticeship, and innovation
GW Unit:: Engineering Mgt and Systems Engineering
Degree:: Ph.D.
Advisor:: Mazzuchi, Thomas A.
Committee Member(s):: Tanju, Bereket R, Murphree, E. Lile, Sarkani, Shahram, Mazzuchi, Thomas A., and Dever, Jason
Resource Type:: Thesis or Dissertation

RISK PRECURSOR ANALYSIS: AN ASSESSMENT OF FLIGHT VARIABLES AFFECTING CIVIL AVIATION ACCIDENTS AND INCIDENTS

Description:: Flight safety has been an important topic for both academia and the industry. Aviation experts and authorities, as well as commercial airline administrators, have always been looking for improvements in the safety of flights. Researchers, on the other hand, have tried to model avionic fatalities...
Author:: Kashef, Mohammad
Keyword:: Data Analysis, Flight Safety, Aviation Accidents, Risk Management, Systems Engineering, and CCA
GW Unit:: Engineering Mgt and Systems Engineering
Degree:: Ph.D.
Advisor:: Mazzuchi, Thomas A and Sarkani, Shahram
Committee Member(s):: Olson, Bill, Blackburn, Timothy, Mazzuchi, Thomas A, Murphree, E. Lile, and Sarkani, Shahram
Resource Type:: Thesis or Dissertation

Prioritization of Component to Component Links for Testing in Component Based Systems

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

A Service Life Extension (SLEP) Approach to Operating Aging Aircraft Beyond Their Original Design Lives

Description:: With today's uncertain funding climate (including sequestration and continuing budget resolutions), decision makers face severe budgetary challenges to maintain dominance through all aspects of the Department of Defense (DoD). To meet war-fighting capabilities, the DoD continues to extend...
Author:: Pentz, Alan Carter
Keyword:: Aircraft, Life Exetnsion, Service Life Extension Program, and Service Life
GW Unit:: Engineering Mgt and Systems Engineering
Degree:: D.Sc.
Advisor:: Eveleigh, Timothy
Committee Member(s):: Murphree, E. Lile, Willy, Christopher, Sarkani, Shahram, and Mazzuchi, Thomas
Resource Type:: Thesis or Dissertation

Rationalizing Business Intelligence Systems and Explicit Knowledge Objects: A Prescription Toward Improving Evidence-based Management in Government Programs

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

A Methodology for Evaluating Technical Performance Parameter Design Margins to Control Earth and Space Science Instrument Cost.

Description:: Costs of aerospace missions have increased over the last twenty years, placing the future of the space program in jeopardy. A potential source for such growth can be attributed to the complex multidisciplinary and challenging nature of earth and space science instrument development. Design...
Author:: Jones-Selden, Felicia
Keyword:: Regression Analysis, Cost Estimation, Space Science Instruments, Technical Performance Parameters, Design Margin, and Earth Science Instruments
GW Unit:: Engineering Mgt and Systems Engineering
Degree:: Ph.D.
Advisor:: Holzer, Thomas H and Eveleigh, Timothy
Committee Member(s):: Murphree, E. Lile, Sarkani, Shahram, Eveleigh, Timothy, Mazzuchi, Thomas, and Holzer, Thomas
Resource Type:: Thesis or Dissertation

A Systems Engineering Approach to Early Detection in the Intensive Care Unit

Description:: The research was designed to determine whether systems engineering tools applied to a medical screening system could detect medical patterns in retrospective data sets. The methodology defined an evidence-based bundle as a multi-dimensional system that conformed to a parameter diagram. The...
Author:: Buenviaje, Bernardo
Keyword:: Problem Management, Early Detection, and Automated Decision Tool
GW Unit:: Engineering Mgt and Systems Engineering
Degree:: Ph.D.
Advisor:: Bischoff, John
Committee Member(s):: Murphree, E. Lile, Willy, Christopher, Sarkani, Shahram, Bischoff, John, and Mazzuchi, Thomas
Resource Type:: Thesis or Dissertation

A Framework of the Use of Information in Software Testing

Description:: With the increasing role that software systems play in our daily lives, software quality has become extremely important. Software quality is impacted by the efficiency of the software testing process. There are a growing number of software testing methodologies, models, and initiatives to satisfy...
Author:: Kaveh, Payman
Keyword:: Engineering management, Software engineering, Grounded theory, Software testing, and Information use
GW Unit:: Engineering Mgt and Systems Engineering
Degree:: D.Sc.
Advisor:: Bada, Abiodun O and Murphree, E. Lile
Committee Member(s):: Stankosky, Michael, Bada, Abiodun O, Murphree, E. Lile, and Sarkani, Shahryar
Resource Type:: Thesis or Dissertation

Risk Assessment Using Paired Comparison Expert Judgment for Ranking of Compounding Outsourcing Facilities

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

Improving Software Project Outcomes through Predictive Analytics

Description:: The complex and emergent behavior of software systems makes information and data key components of this unpredictable environment. The use of a data-driven approach to identify and to accurately predict the sources of software project delays, cost overruns, failures, or successes may prove a...
Author:: Guillaume-Joseph, Gina
Keyword:: Project Management, Software Project Failure, Software Engineering, Systems Engineering, Predictive Analytics, and Software Projects
GW Unit:: Engineering Mgt and Systems Engineering
Degree:: Ph.D.
Advisor:: Wasek, James S
Committee Member(s):: Blessner, Paul, Murphree, E. Lile, Sarkani, Shahram, Wasek, James S., and Mazzuchi, Thomas A.
Resource Type:: Thesis or Dissertation

A New Integration-Difficulty Metric for Assessing the Integration of Independent Systems

Modeling Team-Compatibility Factors Using a Semi-Markov Decision Process: A Framework for Performance Analysis in Soccer

Analyzing Complex Systems Using an Integrated Multi-scale Systems Approach

A System Dynamics Approach to Understanding the Long-Term Effects of Requirement Changes and Unit Quantity Changes during DoD Acquisition

The Association of Knowledge Management and Project Management: An Enterprise-wide Approach Based on Stankosky’s Four Pillar of Knowledge Management and PMI’s Project Management Knowledge Areas

Tailoring a Large Organization’s Systems Engineering Process to Meet Project-Specific Needs

Quality by Design (QbD) and Production System Fundamental Sigma Limits with a Pharmaceutical Industry Example

Modeling Mass Collaboration Networks to Investigate Innovation Drivers and Manage Innovation Potential

Use of Multi-Fidelity and Surrogate Models to Reduce the Cost of Developing Physics-Based Systems

Self-organization and Sense-making in Architect-Engineer Design Teams: Leveraging Health Care’s Approach to “Managing” Complex Adaptive Systems

Risk Matrix Analysis Using Copulas

Validating the Use of Performance Risk Indices for System-Level Risk and Maturity Assessments

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

ENABLERS AND CHALLENGES IN USING ENTERPRISE ARCHITECTURE CONCEPTS TO DRIVE TRANSFORMATION: PERSPECTIVES FROM PRIVATE ORGANIZATIONS AND GOVERNMENT AGENCIES

Increasing Research Productivity: The Impact of Knowledge Management

Allocation of Resources to Defend Spatially Distributed Networks Using Game Theoretic Allocations

A Systems Engineering Framework for Implementing a Security and Critical Patch Management Process in Diverse Environments (Academic Departments' Workstations)

Rapid Cost Estimation for Storm Recovery Using Geographic Information System

System Goodput (GS): A Modeling and Simulation Approach to Refute Current Thinking Regarding System Level Quality of Service

Implications of National Culture on Knowledge Management: A cross-cultural analysis of Italian and American perceptions

The Role of System Thinking Development and Experiential Learning on Enterprise Transformation

RISK PRECURSOR ANALYSIS: AN ASSESSMENT OF FLIGHT VARIABLES AFFECTING CIVIL AVIATION ACCIDENTS AND INCIDENTS

Prioritization of Component to Component Links for Testing in Component Based Systems

A Service Life Extension (SLEP) Approach to Operating Aging Aircraft Beyond Their Original Design Lives

Rationalizing Business Intelligence Systems and Explicit Knowledge Objects: A Prescription Toward Improving Evidence-based Management in Government Programs

A Methodology for Evaluating Technical Performance Parameter Design Margins to Control Earth and Space Science Instrument Cost.

A Systems Engineering Approach to Early Detection in the Intensive Care Unit

A Framework of the Use of Information in Software Testing

Risk Assessment Using Paired Comparison Expert Judgment for Ranking of Compounding Outsourcing Facilities

Improving Software Project Outcomes through Predictive Analytics

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