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Reducing Impediments to Collaboration in a Virtual Design World
Seshasai, Satwik - Gupta, Amar - Sainath, Tara

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Enlaces:	This paper presents a knowledge-based approach to reducing impediments to collaboration in a distributed environment. A major impediment to such collaboration is the issue of communications - clearly and efficiently expressing the desires of every stakeholder in the process, as…
Fecha:	2002-09-25
Recurso:	MIT

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Does the Regional Myth Still Hold? An Interim Report
Nishiguchi, Toshihiro - Oue, Shingo

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Enlaces:	This paper introduces our ongoing analysis of auto component development data obtained from Nishiguchi's research sponsored by MIT's International Motor Vehicle Program (IMVP). The main results of this paper can be found in the section of Research Results where a…
Fecha:	2002-09-04
Recurso:	MIT

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Is the Make-Buy Decision Process a Core Competence?
Fine, Charles H. - Whitney, Daniel E.

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Enlaces:	Many of today's products are so complex that no single company has all the necessary knowledge about either the product or the required processes to completely design and manufacture them in-house. As a result, most companies are dependent on others…
Fecha:	2002-09-04
Recurso:	MIT

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Knowledge Networks, the Internet and, Development
Cukor, Peter - McKnight, Lee

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Enlaces:	Information and Communications Technologies (ICTs) are playing a significant role in economic, political and cultural development. The relationship between technologies supporting information processing and distribution, and the application of that knowledge for development purposes has only recently come into focus.…
Fecha:	2002-07-22
Recurso:	MIT

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Biocapital : the constitution of post-genomic life
Sunder Rajan, Kaushik, 1974-

Formato:	Thesis
Enlaces:	(cont.) In the process, this thesis intervenes in social theoretical debates not simply around the nature and production of knowledge and value, but also around the place of larger belief-systems - relating to religion, nation and ethics - in such…
Fecha:	2005-09-26
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Automobile Recycling Policy: Findings and Recommendations
Field, Frank - Ehrenfeld, John - Roos, Dan - Clark, Joel

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Enlaces:	This report focuses on recycling. As an objective neutral party, MIT has compiled a knowledge base that examines the many complex issues relating to re-cycling. Although this report was prepared at the request of the Automotive board of Governors, it…
Fecha:	2002-09-25
Recurso:	MIT

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Briefing Paper on Industrial Ecology and EPA
Allen, Derry

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Enlaces:	Industrial Ecology (IE) is a systems approach to efficient resource use and protection of the environment. Instead of just devising improved methods of waste treatment and disposal, we look for the best opportunities to reduce waste throughout the total material…
Fecha:	2002-09-18
Recurso:	MIT

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Collaborating across boundaries : theoretical, empirical, and simulated explorations
Black, Laura J. (Laura Jean), 1963-

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Enlaces:	Complex goods and processes require ever more sophisticated and specialized knowledge; harnessing multiple kinds of expertise to execute tasks, solve problems, and develop strategies is increasingly critical to organizations' survival. When specialists come together, however, they often speak in different…
Fecha:	2005-08-23
Recurso:	MIT

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Role of stage gates in effective knowledge sharing during the product development process
Ramchandani, Tulsi D., 1947-

Formato:	Thesis
Enlaces:	by Tulsi D. Ramchandani., Thesis (S.M.)--Massachusetts Institute of Technology, System Design & Management Program, 2002., "February 2002.", Includes bibliographical references (leaves 135-139).
Fecha:	2005-09-27
Recurso:	MIT

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Knowledge Partitioning in the Inter-firm Dividsion of Labor: the case of Automotive product Development
Takeishi, Akira

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Enlaces:	This paper demonstrates the importance of knowledge for effective management of outsourcing. Drawing on an empirical study on automakers? management of supplier involvement in product development in Japan, this paper shows that the level of own knowledge is critical for…
Fecha:	2002-06-26
Recurso:	MIT

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Creating and Managing a High Performance Knowledge-Sharing Network: The Toyota Case
Dyer, Jeffrey - Nobeoka, Kentaro

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Enlaces:	This study offers a detailed case study of how Toyota facilitates interorganizational knowledge transfers among within its production network. In particular, we identiify and examine six key institutionalized knowledge sharing routines developed by Toyota and its suppliers. By examining how…
Fecha:	2002-07-10
Recurso:	MIT

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Automated Design Data and Rationale Capture
Gupta, Amar - Seshasai, Satwik - Yeung, Jason - Sainath, Tara

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Enlaces:	This paper presents a knowledge-based approach for capturing data and rationale, so that the experience and insights gained while pursuing a major project or endeavor can be utilized when pursuing future endeavors of a similar nature. The proposed
Fecha:	2002-06-07
Recurso:	MIT

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Towards Man-Machine Interfaces: Combining Top-down Constraints with Bottom-up Learning in Facial Analysis
Kumar, Vinay P.

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Enlaces:	This thesis proposes a methodology for the design of man-machine interfaces by combining top-down and bottom-up processes in vision. From a computational perspective, we propose that the scientific-cognitive question of combining top-down and bottom-up knowledge is similar to the engineering…
Fecha:	2004-10-01
Recurso:	MIT

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A Knowledge Based Approach to Facilitate Enginering Design
Seshasai, Satwik - Gupta, Amar

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Enlaces:	This paper presents a knowledge-based approach to facilitate the engineering design process relating to spacecrafts. Because the design evolves over a long time and typically involves individuals working at different locations and frequently for different organizations, the degree of collaboration…
Fecha:	2002-10-23
Recurso:	MIT

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Knowledge Partitioning in the Inter-firm Division of Labor: the case of Automotive Product Development
Takeishi, Akira

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Enlaces:	Drawing on an empirical study on automakers? management of supplier involvement in product development in Japan, this paper shows that when the design of a component is outsourced to a supplier, how much and what automakers know about the component…
Fecha:	2002-06-12
Recurso:	MIT

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Street science : the fusing of local and professional knowledge in environmental policy
Coburn, Jason

Formato:	Thesis
Enlaces:	his dissertation analyzes how local knowledge improves environmental decisions. The premise is that controlling pollution and addressing public health disparities are not problems that professionals alone can solve. Concerned lay publics, especially low-income populations and people of color that experience…
Fecha:	2005-08-23
Recurso:	MIT

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Automated Negotiation from Declarative Contract Descriptions
Grosof, Benjamin - Reeves, Daniel - Wellman, Michael

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Enlaces:	Our approach for automating the negotiation of business contracts proceeds in three broad steps. First, determine the structure of the negotiation process by applying general knowledge about auctions and domain-specific knowledge about the contract subject along with preferences from po-
Fecha:	2002-10-23
Recurso:	MIT

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The Influence of Customer Scope on Supplier Learning and Performance in the Japanese Automobile Industry
Nobeoka, Kentaro - Dyer, Jeffrey

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Enlaces:	Most studies on Japanese supplier-automaker relationships have focused on the nature of the dyadic inter-firm relationship and the performance of the assembler. We examine the relationship between a Japanese supplier's "customer scope strategy" (i.e. number of customers) and the supplier's…
Fecha:	2002-07-18
Recurso:	MIT

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Transferring, Translating and Transforming: An Integrative Framework
Carlile, Paul

Formato:	Working Paper
Enlaces:	Organizations must establish processes for managing knowledge across boundaries because of the specialized and task-dependent forms of knowledge required to deliver products and services. To address this challenge an integrative framework is developed that identifies and integrates the value of…
Fecha:	2003-12-10
Recurso:	MIT

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Border-crossing knowledge networking among multinational firms : the case of R&D facilities
Shirvani-Mahdavi, Ali (Ali Agha), 1965-

Formato:	Thesis
Enlaces:	(cont.) which is expected, given their additional knowledge resources. The respondents' urgency in looking for the relevant knowledge is the primary explanation for this difference between the two networks. This difference in knowledge networking among the different groups did not…
Fecha:	2005-09-27
Recurso:	MIT

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Transferring, Translating and Transforming: An Integrative Framework
Carlile, Paul

Formato:	Working Paper
Enlaces:	Organizations must establish processes for managing knowledge across boundaries because of the specialized and task-dependent forms of knowledge required to deliver products and services. To address this challenge an integrative framework is developed that identifies and integrates the value of…
Fecha:	2003-12-18
Recurso:	MIT

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Improving an image annotation and retrieval agent using commonsense and personal knowledge, Improving an image retrieval agent using commonsense and personal knowledge
Waters, Kimberly G. (Kimberly Geneva), 1977-

Formato:	Thesis
Enlaces:	by Kimberly G. Waters., Thesis (S.M.)--Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Dept. of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science, 2002., Includes bibliographical references (p. 45-46).
Fecha:	2005-08-24
Recurso:	MIT

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Towards a unified framework for sub-lexical and supra-lexical linguistic modeling
Mou, Xiaolong, 1973-

Formato:	Thesis
Enlaces:	Conversational interfaces have received much attention as a promising natural communication channel between humans and computers. A typical conversational interface consists of three major systems: speech understanding, dialog management and spoken language generation. In such a conversational interface, speech recognition…
Fecha:	2005-10-14
Recurso:	MIT

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Predicting and managing system interactions at early phase of the product development process
Dong, Qi, 1973-

Formato:	Thesis
Enlaces:	The activity of designing and developing large, complex, discrete, physical, and engineered products faces the challenges in the physical product system, the organization of people, and the larger systems in which the product resides-the natural and societal systems. This thesis…
Fecha:	2005-05-19
Recurso:	MIT

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Naval Engineering A National Naval Obligation
Chryssostomidis, Chryssostomos - Bernitsas, Michael - Burke, David

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Enlaces:	As part of its national obligations, ONR must ensure US world leadership in those unique technology areas that insure naval superiority. ONR accomplishes this mission through research, recruitment and education, maintaining an adequate base of talent, and sustaining critical infrastructure…
Fecha:	2002-10-28
Recurso:	MIT

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FROM PLACE TO SPACE: Migrating to Profitable Electronic Commerce Business Models
Vitale, Michael - Ross, Jeanne W. - Weill, Peter

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Enlaces:	The Internet is a powerful channel that presents new opportunities for touching customers, enriching products and services with information, squeezing out costs through process automation, and redesigning internal business processes through enhanced communication and knowledge sharing. In…
Fecha:	2002-06-07
Recurso:	MIT

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Internet Interconnection Economic Model and its Analysis: Peering and Settlement
Shin, Seung-Jae - Weiss, Martin

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Enlaces:	Peering and transit are two types of Internet interconnection among ISPs. Peering has been a core concept to sustain Internet industry. However, for the past several years, many ISPs broke their peering arrangement because of asymmetric traffic pattern and asymmetric…
Fecha:	2002-07-22
Recurso:	MIT

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SweetDeal: Representing Agent Contracts With Exceptions using XML Rules, Ontologies, and Process Descriptions
GROSOF, BENJAMIN - POON, TERRENCE C.

Formato:	Working Paper
Enlaces:	SweetDeal is a rule-based approach to representation of business contracts that enables software agents to create, evaluate, negotiate, and execute contracts with substantial automation and modularity. It builds upon the situated courteous logic programs knowledge representation in RuleML, the emerging…
Fecha:	2003-09-16
Recurso:	MIT

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Toward a Stakeholder Theory of the Firm: The Case of the Saturn Partnership
Kochan, Thomas - Rubinstein, Saul

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Enlaces:	This paper seeks to engage the organization theory community in contemporary debates over the role of the cxxporation in American society by building a stakeholder theory of the t%n. We develop a set of normative premises and positivist propositions derived…
Fecha:	2002-06-06
Recurso:	MIT

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Use of Recurrent Neural Networks for Strategic Data Mining of Sales
Vadhavkar, Sanjeev - Shanmugasundaram, Jayavel - Gupta, Amar - Prasad, M.V. Nagendra

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Enlaces:	An increasing number of organizations are involved in the development of strategic information systems for effective linkages with their suppliers, customers, and other channel partners involved in transportation, distribution, warehousing and maintenance activities. An efficient inter-organizational inventory…
Fecha:	2002-06-10
Recurso:	MIT

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Toward a Stakeholder Theory of the Firm: The Case of the Saturn Partnership
Kochan, Thomas - Rubinstein, Saul

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Enlaces:	This paper seeks to engage the organization theory community in contemporary debates over the role of the corporation in American society by building a stakeholder theory of the firm. We develop a set of normative premises and positivist propositions derived…
Fecha:	2002-07-11
Recurso:	MIT

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An Equilibrium Model of Rare Event Premia
Liu, Jun - Pan, Jun - Wang, Tan

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Enlaces:	In this paper, we study the asset pricing implication of imprecise knowledge about rare events. Modeling rare events as jumps in the aggregate endowment, we explicitly solve the equilibrium asset prices in a pure-exchange economy with a representative agent who…
Fecha:	2002-08-12
Recurso:	MIT

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Laboratory for Information Globalization and Harmonization
Madnick, Stuart - Choucri, Nazli - Siegel, Michael - Haghseta, Farnaz - Moulton, Allen - Zhu, Harry

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Enlaces:	The convergence of three distinct but interconnected trends - unrelenting globalization, growing worldwide electronic connectivity, and increasing knowledge intensity of economic activity - is creating powerful new opportunities and challenges for global politics. This rapidly changing environment…
Fecha:	2002-06-07
Recurso:	MIT

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Knowledge management in banking industry : comparative analysis between U.S. and Japan
Yamagata, Kazunori, 1966-

Formato:	Thesis
Enlaces:	by Kazunori Yamagata., Thesis (S.M.M.O.T.)--Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Sloan School of Management, Management of Technology Program, 2002., Includes bibliographical references (leaves 95-99).
Fecha:	2005-08-23
Recurso:	MIT

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A knowledge-network model of scientific communities
Gonzalez Pinto, Jose Maria, 1975-

Formato:	Thesis
Enlaces:	by Jose Maria Gonzalez Pinto., Thesis (S.M.)--Massachusetts Institute of Technology, School of Architecture and Planning, Program in Media Arts and Sciences, 2002., Includes bibliographical references (p. 68-69).
Fecha:	2005-08-23
Recurso:	MIT

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Service delivery and learning in automated interfaces
Oliveira, Paulo Rocha e, 1974-

Formato:	Thesis
Enlaces:	This dissertation analyzes the strategic implications of customization policies available to companies that must simultaneously provide service and learn about their customers through automated interfaces. The first part of the dissertation lays out the theoretical framework within which the analysis…
Fecha:	2005-10-14
Recurso:	MIT

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Creating Lean Suppliers: Diffusing Lean Production Through the Supply Chain
Helper, Susan - MacDuffie, John Paul

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Enlaces:	Hon& of America has developed a comprehensive approach to teaching the principles of lean production to its suppliers. The centerpiece of these efforts is a program called BP (for ?Best process?, ?Best Performance ?, ?Bs Practice?), in which a crossfunctional…
Fecha:	2002-06-06
Recurso:	MIT

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Creating Lean Suppliers: Diffusing Lean Production Through the Supply Chain
MacDuffie, John Paul - Helper, Susan

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Enlaces:	Honda of America has developed a comprehensive approach to teaching the principles of lean production to its suppliers. The centerpiece of these efforts is a program called BP (for "Best process", "Best Performance", "Bs Practice"), in which a crossfunctional team…
Fecha:	2002-07-18
Recurso:	MIT

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Organizational Learning from Experience in High-Hazard Industries: Problem Investigation as Off-Line Reflective Practice
Rudolph, Jenny - Hatakenaka, Sachi - Carroll, John S.

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Enlaces:	Learning from experience, the cyclical interplay of thinking and doing, is increasingly important as organizations struggle to cope with rapidly changing environments and more complex and interdependent sets of knowledge. This paper confronts two central issues for organizational learning: (1)…
Fecha:	2002-08-16
Recurso:	MIT

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Signature schemes and applications to cryptographic protocol design
Lysyanskaya, Anna

Formato:	Thesis
Enlaces:	Signature schemes are fundamental cryptographic primitives, useful as a stand-alone application, and as a building block in the design of secure protocols and other cryptographic objects. In this thesis, we study both the uses that signature schemes find in protocols,…
Fecha:	2005-10-14
Recurso:	MIT

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On "Learnable" Representations of Knowledge: A Meaning for the Computational Metaphor
diSessa, Andrea A.

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Enlaces:	The computational metaphor which proposes the comparison of processes of mind to realizable or imaginable computer activities suggests a number of educational concerns. This paper discusses some of those concerns including procedural modes of knowledge representation and control knowledge ??owing…
Fecha:	2004-10-01
Recurso:	MIT

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Putting Patents in Context:Exploring Knowledge Transfer from MIT
Agrawal, Ajay - Henderson, Rebecca

Formato:	Working Paper
Enlaces:	In this paper we explore the degree to which patents are representative of the magnitude, direction, and impact of the knowledge spilling out of the university by focusing on MIT, and in particular on the departments of Mechanical and Electrical…
Fecha:	2003-12-18
Recurso:	MIT

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Discriminative, generative, and imitative learning
Jebara, Tony (Tony S.), 1974-

Formato:	Thesis
Enlaces:	I propose a common framework that combines three different paradigms in machine learning: generative, discriminative and imitative learning. A generative probabilistic distribution is a principled way to model many machine learning and machine perception problems. Therein, one provides domain specific…
Fecha:	2005-08-23
Recurso:	MIT

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Social capital and microfinance
Karlan, Dean S

Formato:	Thesis
Enlaces:	Chapter one is titled "Social Capital and Group Banking." Lending to the poor is costly due to high screening, monitoring, and enforcement costs. Group lending advocates believe individuals are able to select creditworthy peers, monitor the use of loan proceeds,…
Fecha:	2005-08-23
Recurso:	MIT

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Spinning off new ventures from research institutions outside high tech entrepreneurial areas
Degroof, Jean-Jacques

Formato:	Thesis
Enlaces:	In this thesis, I examine how spinning off new ventures from academic institutions works in an environment outside developed high tech clusters and how it affects models of ventures. I examine these questions by studying the case of Belgium. There…
Fecha:	2005-08-23
Recurso:	MIT

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Fundamental analysis and conceptual model for corporate strategy in global engineering and construction markets
Cheah, Yuen Jen, 1972-

Formato:	Thesis
Enlaces:	Strategic management as an academic field of study has spanned over four decades. As an interdisciplinary subject that enjoys concurrent contributions by allied disciplines such as economics and social science, numerous industries have benefited from applying tools and concepts developed…
Fecha:	2005-08-24
Recurso:	MIT

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NPL : a graphical programming language for motor control and its application to bipedal walking, Neuronal Programming Language : a graphical programming language for motor control and its application to bipedal walking
Wessler, Michael Alan, 1970-

Formato:	Thesis
Enlaces:	Current methods for bipedal walking control include playback of recorded joint motion and the derivation of dynamic equations to map desired forces at the body to the required torques at the joints. Both methods require a significant amount of up-front…
Fecha:	2005-10-14
Recurso:	MIT

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Towards trainable man-machine interfaces : combining top-down constraints with bottom-up learning in facial analysis, Towards man-machine interfaces : combining top-down constraints with bottom-up learning
Kumar, Vinay P. (Vinay Prasanna), 1972-

Formato:	Thesis
Enlaces:	This thesis proposes a miethodology for the design of man-machine interfaces by combining top-down and bottom-up processes in vision. From a computational perspective, we propose that the scientific-cognitive question of combining top-down and bottom-up knowledge is similar to the engineering…
Fecha:	2005-10-14
Recurso:	MIT

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Product development knowledge management portal and case studies to demonstrate the need for better design knowledge management using it
Prasanna, Guru, 1976-

Formato:	Thesis
Enlaces:	by Guru Prasanna., Thesis (S.M.)--Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Dept. of Mechanical Engineering, 2001., Page 123 blank., Includes bibliographical references (p. 121-122).
Fecha:	2005-06-02
Recurso:	MIT

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City knowledge : an emergent information infrastructure for sustainable urban maintenance, management and planning
Carrera, Fabio, 1961-

Formato:	Thesis
Enlaces:	(cont.) updates. It produces plan-ready information, by exploiting the self-serving and opportunistic pursuit of instant return-on-investment by frontline offices. Thanks to its emergent qualities, City Knowledge engenders unexpected plan-demanding situations, where the ability to conduct second-order analyses leads to deeper…
Fecha:	2005-09-27
Recurso:	MIT