Thesis (S.M.)--Massachusetts Institute of Technology, System Design and Management Program, 1998. / Includes bibliographical references (p. 125). / by Michael Rodeffer. / S.M.

Thesis (S.M.)--Massachusetts Institute of Technology, System Design and Management Program, 1998. / Includes bibliographical references. / by Atanu Mukerjee. / S.M.

Thesis (S.M.)--Massachusetts Institute of Technology, System Design & Management Program, 2003. / Includes bibliographical references. / by Sridhar Sadasivan. / S.M.

Thesis (S.M.)--Massachusetts Institute of Technology, System Design and Management Program, 2007. / Includes bibliographical references (p. 76-77). / Propagation of engineering changes has gained increasing scrutiny as the complexity and scale of engineered systems has increased. Over the past decade academic interest has risen, yielding some small-scale in-depth studies, as well as a variety of tools aimed at aiding investigation, analysis and prediction of change propagation. This thesis applies many of the methods and seeks to apply and extend prior reasoning through examination of a large data set from industry, including data from more than 41,000 change requests (most technical, but others not) over nearly a decade. Different methods are used to analyze the data from a variety of perspectives, in both the technical and managerial realms, and the results are compared to each other and evaluated in the context of previous findings. Macro-level patterns emerge independent of smaller scale data patterns, and in many cases offer clear implications for technical management approaches for large, complex systems development. / by Monica L. Giffin. / S.M.

Thesis (S.M.)--Massachusetts Institute of Technology, System Design and Management Program, 2009. / Cataloged from PDF version of thesis. / Includes bibliographical references (p. 78-79). / Trading firms nowadays are highly reliant on data mining, computer modeling and software development. Financial analysts perform many similar tasks to those in software and manufacturing industries. However, the finance industry has not yet fully adopted high-standard systems engineering frameworks and process management approaches that have been successful in the software and manufacturing industries. Many of the traditional methodologies for product design, quality control, systematic innovation, and continuous improvement found in engineering disciplines can be applied to the finance field. This thesis shows how the knowledge acquired from engineering disciplines can improve the design and processes management of high frequency trading systems. High frequency trading systems are computation-based. These systems are automatic or semi-automatic software systems that are inherently complex and require a high degree of design precision. The design of a high frequency trading system links multiple fields, including quantitative finance, system design and software engineering. In the finance industry, where mathematical theories and trading models are relatively well researched, the ability to implement these designs in real trading practices is one of the key elements of an investment firm's competitiveness. The capability of converting investment ideas into high performance trading systems effectively and efficiently can give an investment firm a huge competitive advantage. / (cont.) This thesis provides a detailed study composed of high frequency trading system design, system modeling and principles, and processes management for system development. Particular emphasis is given to backtesting and optimization, which are considered the most important parts in building a trading system. This research builds system engineering models that guide the development process. It also uses experimental trading systems to verify and validate principles addressed in this thesis. Finally, this thesis concludes that systems engineering principles and frameworks can be the key to success for implementing high frequency trading or quantitative investment systems. / by Xiangguang Xiao. / S.M.

Thesis (S.M.)--Massachusetts Institute of Technology, System Design & Management Program, 2002. / This electronic version was submitted by the student author. The certified thesis is available in the Institute Archives and Special Collections. / Includes bibliographical references (leaves 93-96). / by Timothy K. Brady. / S.M.

Thesis (S.M.)--Massachusetts Institute of Technology, System Design & Management Program, 2001. / Includes bibliographical references (leaves 72-74). / by Laurie Taylor Hart. / S.M.

Thesis (S.M.)--Massachusetts Institute of Technology, System Design & Management Program, 2002. / Includes bibliographical references (leaves 102-103). / by Thomas A. Mackin. / S.M.

Thesis (S.M.)--Massachusetts Institute of Technology, System Design & Management Program, 2000. / Includes bibliographical references (p. 90-91). / Automotive companies continue to refine their product development processes to reduce total development cycle time and to increase key consumer attributes of quality, safety, package, and design for the vehicles that are produced. Company project planners and vehicle program managers need effective techniques and methods to predict and manage product development processes in the context of an automotive company. Strategic managers desire a set of individual and aggregate vehicle program system dynamics models specifically developed for the automotive product development process to understand the resource implications in the creation of a vehicle cycle plan. This paper describes the individual and aggregate vehicle program system dynamics models that were developed, simulated, and analyzed using a representative automotive product development cycle plan. The relationships between resources, individual employee productivity, quality of the product development work, and the aspects of schedule pressure, work and rework, program management, employee movement, and the interactions between the product development phases were explored. The system dynamics models and corresponding simulation results are presented in this document along with the observations and insights obtained during the course of this study. / by Edward Esker. / S.M.

Thesis (S.M.)--Massachusetts Institute of Technology, System Design & Management Program, February 2000. / Includes bibliographical references (p. 80). / by Robert B. Northrop. / S.M.