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Automobile Recycling Policy: Findings and Recommendations
Field, Frank - Ehrenfeld, John - Roos, Dan - Clark, Joel

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

Formato:
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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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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A Knowledge based segmentation algorithm for enhanced recognition of handwritten courtesy amounts

Formato:
Enlaces:	Karim Hussein ... [et al.], "March 1994.", Includes bibliographical references (p. [23]-[24])., Supported by the Productivity From Information Technology (PROFIT) Research Initiative at MIT.
Fecha:	2003-04-29
Recurso:	MIT

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A Methodology for integration of heterogeneous databases

Formato:
Enlaces:	M.P. Reddy ... [et al.], Reprint. Reprinted from IEEE transactions on knowledge and data engineering. Vol. 6, no. 6 (Dec. 1994) "December 1994.", Includes bibliographical references (p. 932)., Supported by the Productivity From Information Technology (PROFIT) Research Initiative at MIT.
Fecha:	2003-04-29
Recurso:	MIT

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

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

Formato:
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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11.

Mineral depletion, with special reference to petroleum
Adelman, Morris Albert

Formato:	Working Paper
Enlaces:	Two implications of received theory are (1) mineral net prices rise at the riskless interest rate, and (2) in-ground value is equal to the current net price. Both propositions are false. A correct theory has been joined to…
Fecha:	2005-09-15
Recurso:	MIT

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12.

Mineral depletion, with special reference to petroleum
Adelman, Morris Albert

Formato:	Working Paper
Enlaces:	Two implications of received theory are (1) mineral net prices rise at the riskless interest rate, and (2) in-ground value is equal to the current net price. Both propositions are false. A correct theory has been joined to…
Fecha:	2005-09-15
Recurso:	MIT

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13.

Mineral depletion, with special reference to petroleum
Adelman, Morris Albert

Formato:	Working Paper
Enlaces:	Two implications of received theory are (1) mineral net prices rise at the riskless interest rate, and (2) in-ground value is equal to the current net price. Both propositions are false. A correct theory has been joined to…
Fecha:	2005-09-15
Recurso:	MIT

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14.

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

Formato:
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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15.

Recent Progress in Droplet-Based Manufacturing Research
Kim, H.-Y. - Cherng, J.-P. - Chun, Jung-Hoon

Formato:	Article
Enlaces:	This article reports the recent progress of re-search made in the Droplet-Based Manufacturing Laboratory at MIT. The study has been focused on obtaining a fundamental understanding of microdroplet deposition and applying the technology to various practical applications. Specific scientific contributions…
Fecha:	2003-12-23
Recurso:	MIT

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16.

Finding God in the urban landscape : a temple for gnosis in upper Manhattan
Marcus, Andrew Todd

Formato:	Thesis
Enlaces:	Nature and Gnosticism are problematic terms. With the discovery of a library of so called heretical Gnostic texts in 1945, theologians, historians, and believers the world over have been exposed to Christian texts that call into question the liturgical lineage…
Fecha:	2005-09-06
Recurso:	MIT

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17.

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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18.

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

Formato:
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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19.

2.5 D Cavity Balancing
Jin, S. - Lam, Yee Cheong

Formato:	Article
Enlaces:	Cavity balancing is the process of altering the flow front within a cavity through thickness and design changes such that the desired fill pattern is achieved. The 2 dimensional (2D) cavity-balancing algorithm, developed by Lam and Seow [1] can only…
Fecha:	2003-12-23
Recurso:	MIT

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20.

Collaborative Engine for Distributed Mechanical Design
Ni, Qianfu - Lu, Wen Feng

Formato:	Article
Enlaces:	Effective collaboration is essential for engineers at geographically dispersed locations to accomplish good design with less iteration. Over the last several years, more and more efforts have been put into such research as many industries have distributed their product development…
Fecha:	2003-12-23
Recurso:	MIT

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21.

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
Recurso:	MIT

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22.

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

Formato:
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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23.

Intrinsic representation : bootstrapping symbols from experience
Larson, Stephen David, 1980-

Formato:	Thesis
Enlaces:	If we are to understand human-level intelligence, we need to understand how meanings can be learned without explicit instruction. I take a step toward that understanding by focusing on the symbol-grounding problem, showing how symbols can emerge from a system…
Fecha:	2005-09-26
Recurso:	MIT

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24.

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

Formato:	Thesis
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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25.

Induced technical change and the cost of climate policy
Sue Wing, Ian.

Formato:
Enlaces:	This paper investigates the potential for a carbon tax to induce R&D, and for the consequent induced technical change (ITC) to lower the macroeconomic cost of abating carbon emissions. ITC is modelled within a general equilibrium simulation of the U.S.…
Fecha:	2003-10-27
Recurso:	MIT

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26.

Briefing Paper on Industrial Ecology and EPA
Allen, Derry

Formato:
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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27.

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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28.

Qualitative Knowledge, Casual Reasoning and the Localization of Failures
Brown, Allen

Formato:
Enlaces:	This report investigates some techinques appropriate to representing the knowledge necessary for understanding a class of electronic machines -- radio receivers. A computational performance model - WATSON - is presented. WATSONs task is to isolate failures in radio receivers whose…
Fecha:	2004-10-20
Recurso:	MIT

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29.

A Framework for Corporate Householding
Madnick, Stuart - Wang, Richard - Zhang, Wei

Formato:	Working Paper
Enlaces:	Previous research on corporate household and corporate householding has presented examples, literature review, and working definitions. In this paper, we first improve our understanding of the area by developing a typology of corporate householding tasks and knowledge…
Fecha:	2003-03-21
Recurso:	MIT

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30.

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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31.

Product traceability in the pharmaceutical supply chain : an analysis of the auto-ID approach
Bellman, Attilio, 1967-

Formato:	Thesis
Enlaces:	This thesis analyzes how the Auto-ID technology and information infrastructure will change the management and distribution of pharmaceutical products within the health care industry by enabling item level product traceability functionality. The complexity of the health care industry is steadily…
Fecha:	2005-09-27
Recurso:	MIT

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32.

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

Formato:
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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33.

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

Formato:
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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34.

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

Formato:
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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35.

Efficient on the fly maintenance of series-parallel relationships
Fineman, Jeremy T.

Formato:	Article
Enlaces:	A series-parallel directed acyclic graph, or SP-dag, contains nodes that are either in series or logically in parallel. We present a data structure and algorithm to efficiently determine, in a single serial walk of the dag, whether two nodes are…
Fecha:	2003-12-13
Recurso:	MIT

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36.

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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37.

Documenting dreams : patient-centered records versus practice-centered records
Østerlund, Carsten Svarrer, 1965-

Formato:	Thesis
Enlaces:	This thesis explores how doctors and nurses use documents to share their knowledge within and across healthcare settings. In addressing this question I draw on a 15-month, multi-sited ethnographic study in several pediatric health care settings, following patients from primary…
Fecha:	2005-08-24
Recurso:	MIT

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38.

Workspace in transition : rethinking workspace through the design of reconfigurable worksurfaces
Cho, Minjung, 1974-

Formato:	Thesis
Enlaces:	Communication is an integral part of today's workplace, linking people, objects, and information. Now that knowledge exchange is considered a significant work activity, new technologies have been developed to support communication with people who are On the move. As a…
Fecha:	2005-09-26
Recurso:	MIT

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39.

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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40.

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

Formato:
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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41.

Using Analogy to Acquire Commonsense Knowledge from Human Contributors
Chklovski, Timothy

Formato:
Enlaces:	The goal of the work reported here is to capture the commonsense knowledge of non-expert human contributors. Achieving this goal will enable more intelligent human-computer interfaces and pave the way for computers to reason about our world. In the domain…
Fecha:	2004-10-20
Recurso:	MIT

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42.

Vibration and crack detection in gas turbine engine compressor blades using Eddy current sensors
Lackner, Matthew, 1980-

Formato:	Thesis
Enlaces:	(cont.) in the ECS signal, no definitive method for sensing blade vibration using an ECS has yet been developed., High cycle fatigue (HCF) cracks generated by compressor blade vibrations are a common source of failure in gas turbine engines. Current…
Fecha:	2005-09-27
Recurso:	MIT

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43.

Improving Data Quality Through Effective Use of Data Semantics
Madnick, Stuart E.

Formato:	Article
Enlaces:	Data quality issues have taken on increasing importance in recent years. In our research, we have discovered that many “data quality” problems are actually “data misinterpretation” problems – that is, problems with data semantics. In this paper, we first illustrate…
Fecha:	2003-12-13
Recurso:	MIT

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44.

Multinational enterprises and cross-border knowledge creation

Formato:
Enlaces:	D. Eleanor Westney., Cover title. "Paper prepared for JAIMS conference on 'International Comparative Study of Knowledge Creation', Hawaii, December 12-14, 1996"--Added t.p. "February 1997.", Includes bibliographical references (p. 31-34).
Fecha:	2003-04-29
Recurso:	MIT

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45.

The growth of knowledge : testing a theory of scientific revolutions with a formal model

Formato:
Enlaces:	John D. Sterman., Includes bibliographical references.
Fecha:	2003-04-29
Recurso:	MIT

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46.

Semantic Interoperability in the Fixed Income Securities Industry: A Knowledge Representation Architecture for Dynamic Integration of Web-Based Information
Moulton, Allen - Madnick, Stuart - Siegel, Michael

Formato:	Working Paper
Enlaces:	We examine a knowledge representation architecture to support context interchange mediation. For autonomous receivers and sources sharing a common subject domain, the mediator's reasoning engine can devise query plans integrating multiple sources and resolving semantic heterogeneity. Receiver…
Fecha:	2003-02-10
Recurso:	MIT

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47.

Rockwell Collins & IBEW Locals 1362 and 1634: Investing in Knowledge, Skills, and Future Capability in an Uncertain Business Environment.
Barrett, Betty

Formato:	Article
Enlaces:	The post-September 11th economy has confronted Rockwell Collins in Cedar Rapids, Iowa with hard choices. Faced with the need to cut costs, including laying off significant portions of the work force, the company and its unions still maintain a commitment…
Fecha:	2003-06-06
Recurso:	MIT

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48.

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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49.

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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50.

Computer aided design of circular tunnels using analysis and knowledge-based rules
Brito, Jaime Francisco

Formato:	Thesis
Enlaces:	by Jaime Francisco Brito., Thesis (M.S.)--Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Dept. of Civil and Environmental Engineering, 1994., Includes bibliographical references (leaf 348).
Fecha:	2005-08-16
Recurso:	MIT