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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:: Cybersecurity, Cyber-Attack, Enterprise Architecture, Portfolio Management, Expert Judgment, and Systems Engineering
GW Unit:: Systems Engineering
Degree:: Ph.D.
Advisor:: Mazzuchi, Thomas A and Sarkani, Shahram
Committee Member(s):: Murphree, E. Lile, Bischoff, John, and Holzer, Thomas
Resource Type:: Thesis or Dissertation

Identification of Supply Chain Cost Drivers in Primary Care in the United States

Description:: Over the last decade, healthcare supply chain (SC) costs have increased by 40 percent in the United States. A typical hospital’s SC costs account for 38 percent of the total, compared to less than 10 percent for most industries. Supply chain costs are the healthcare organizations’ second biggest...
Author:: Essila Mvogo, Jean Clement
Keyword:: Supply chain management, Healthcare supply chain cost drivers, Regression analysis, Primary care supply chain, and Cost drivers
GW Unit:: Engineering Management
Degree:: D.Engr.
Advisor:: Eggstaff, Justin and Islam, Muhammad F
Committee Member(s):: Etemadi, Amir, Eggstaff, Justin, Murphree, E. Lile, Hardie, Daniel D, and Islam, Muhammad F
Resource Type:: Thesis or Dissertation

The Evaluation of Symptomatic and Latent Failure Causal Factors in Complex Socio-technical Systems

Description:: Human error remains the highest symptomatic cause of system failure across multiple domains. Technology failure has seen a significant rate decrease through analyses and design changes, but human error causal factors have not experienced the same level of improvement. Designers and developers...
Author:: Erjavac, Anthony John
Keyword:: Latent cause, Causal Analysis, Symptomatic cause, Human error, and Human system integration
GW Unit:: Systems Engineering
Degree:: Ph.D.
Advisor:: Iammartino, Ronald and Fossaceca, John M.
Committee Member(s):: Murphree, E. Lile, Sarkani, Shahram, Eveleigh, Timothy, and Mazzuchi, Thomas A.
Resource Type:: Thesis or Dissertation

Spare Parts Model for Additive Manufacturing

Description:: Spare parts models have typically focused on the number of spares physically required to maintain system availability and optimize replacement policies, such as block or age replacement and variants thereof. In an era where additive manufacturing (AM), or 3D printing, as it is popularly known,...
Author:: Togwe, Thembani
Keyword:: project management, project planning/assessment/control, logistics and supportability, transition/operation/maintenance, supply chain, and systems engineering
GW Unit:: Systems Engineering
Degree:: Ph.D.
Advisor:: Eveleigh, Timothy J and Tanju, Bereket
Committee Member(s):: Etemadi, Amir, Murphree, E. Lile, Sarkani, Shahram, and Mazzuchi, Thomas
Resource Type:: Thesis or Dissertation

A Robust System Maturity Model Using Petri Nets

Description:: Immature systems can be plagued by high costs, high risks, and schedule delays. System maturity models are utilized to quantitatively analyze a system’s readiness to indicate whether the system is prepared to proceed to the next acquisition phase during development. Most system maturity models...
Author:: Thal, Brent
Keyword:: petri net system readiness level (PNSRL), system maturity, and systems engineering
GW Unit:: Systems Engineering
Degree:: Ph.D.
Advisor:: Olson, Bill and Blessner, Paul
Committee Member(s):: Olson, Bill, Etemadi, Amir, Murphree, E. Lile, Eveleigh, Timothy, and Mazzuchi, Thomas
Resource Type:: Thesis or Dissertation

Reduction of Railway System Failures through Technical Uncertainty Analysis

Description:: Since the opening of the Washington Metropolitan Transit Authority (WMATA) in 1976, failures have negatively affected consistent railway service across the areas. Over the last three years, WMATA has attempted increase efforts to perform critical maintenance that would increase performance and...
Author:: Barber, Tony Donell
Keyword:: Technical Failures, Reliability Engineering, Systems Analysis, Technical Uncertainty, Decision Analysis, and Systems Engineering
GW Unit:: Engineering Management
Degree:: D.Engr.
Advisor:: Olson, Bill and Blessner, Paul
Committee Member(s):: Olson, Bill, Blessner, Paul, Etemadi, Amir, Murphree, E. Lile, and MacCarthy, John
Resource Type:: Thesis or Dissertation

Development of an Adjustment Factor for Improving Software Effort Estimation Utilizing the Use Case Point Method

Description:: This Praxis describes a method for improving the accuracy of Use Case Point (UCP) effort estimation for software development projects. The thesis for the research is that an emergent factor exists in software development projects that is not considered in the UCP process. This emergent factor is...
Author:: Herriman, Rory Allen
Keyword:: Software Productivity, Software Development, Software Estimation, Use Case Point, Software Labor, and Software Optimization
GW Unit:: Engineering Management
Degree:: D.Engr.
Advisor:: Guillaume-Joseph, Gina and Gideon, Alan K
Committee Member(s):: Etemadi, Amir, Guillaume-Joseph, Gina, Murphree, E. Lile, Gideon, Alan K, and Partridge, Ronald
Resource Type:: Thesis or Dissertation

Renewable Energy Implementation Analysis and Recommendations to Meet District of Columbia’s Renewable Portfolio Standard (RPS) Expansion Act

Description:: Due to federal mandates, there is an increasing demand to advance renewable energy in the District of Columbia (D.C.) to deliver power. Utilities must find ways to achieve objectives while avoiding costly alternative compliance payments. In 2016, the District of Columbia’s Renewable Portfolio...
Author:: DuBrey, Stephen
Keyword:
GW Unit:: Engineering Management
Degree:: D.Engr.
Advisor:: Guillaume-Joseph, Gina
Committee Member(s):: Gideon, Alan, Murphree, E. Lile, and Etemadi, Amir
Resource Type:: Thesis or Dissertation

Improving Recovery Time of Children Missing from State Care Using Quantitative Analysis Techniques

Description:: Locating children missing from state care quickly is critical for their safety and overall wellbeing. This research was conducted to evaluate the time it takes to establish the team of teams, or human systems of system, to search for a missing child. Specifically, the time it takes for social...
Author:: Bischoff, John Edward
Keyword:: Engineering Management, Team design, Knowledge Management, and Missing
GW Unit:: Engineering Management
Degree:: D.Engr.
Advisor:: Guillaume-Joseph, Gina
Committee Member(s):: Gideon, Alan K., Lowery, Robert G., Etemadi, Amir, and Murphree, E. Lile
Resource Type:: Thesis or Dissertation

Maturity Based Cybersecurity Investment Decision Making in Developing Nations

Description:: The future of developing nations – both in terms of opportunities and challenges – is tied to the security of the information communications and technology (ICT) infrastructure. As many developing nations increase reliance on ICT to enable economic growth, they fail to commit an equivalent level...
Author:: Garlock, Kevin
Keyword:: Cybersecurity, Developing Nations, Cybersecurity maturity, and Cybersecurity Investments
GW Unit:: Engineering Management
Degree:: D.Engr.
Advisor:: Gideon, Alan and Guillaume-Joseph, Gina
Committee Member(s):: Gideon, Alan, Guillaume-Joseph, Gina, Murphree, E. Lile, Lark, Philip, and Etemadi, Amir
Resource Type:: Thesis or Dissertation

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

Identification of Supply Chain Cost Drivers in Primary Care in the United States

The Evaluation of Symptomatic and Latent Failure Causal Factors in Complex Socio-technical Systems

Spare Parts Model for Additive Manufacturing

A Robust System Maturity Model Using Petri Nets

Reduction of Railway System Failures through Technical Uncertainty Analysis

Development of an Adjustment Factor for Improving Software Effort Estimation Utilizing the Use Case Point Method

Renewable Energy Implementation Analysis and Recommendations to Meet District of Columbia’s Renewable Portfolio Standard (RPS) Expansion Act

Improving Recovery Time of Children Missing from State Care Using Quantitative Analysis Techniques

Maturity Based Cybersecurity Investment Decision Making in Developing Nations

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