Engineering Systems Division (ESD) Working Paper Series: Recent submissions

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    • Optimizing Long-Term Service Agreements for gas-fired units in the context of increasing penetration of intermittent generation 

      Leung, Tommy; Sanchez-Gonzalez, Miguel; Rodilla, Pablo; Batlle Lopez, Carlos (Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Engineering Systems Division, 2014-06)
      As power systems increasingly rely on gas-fired power plants (GFPP), and as thermal cycling requirements increase due to larger penetrations of intermittent generation, the long-term service agreements (LTSAs) that define ...

    • ESD Summer Reading Lists 2003–2014 

      Sussman, Joseph M. (Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Engineering Systems Division, 2014-06)
      Back in 2003, when ESD was a toddler of about 4 1⁄2, we were preparing for our spring semester offsite traditionally held at the end of the academic year in late May or early June. I had the idea of preparing a short list ...

    • A type-independent approach to supply-chain strategy evaluation 

      Perez-Franco, Roberto Joaquin; Caplice, Chris; Singh, Mahender; Sheffi, Yossi (Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Engineering Systems Division, 2014-06)
      Extant literature lacks established frameworks or methods that can be used to evaluate a supply chain strategy. In this paper we present a type-independent approach to evaluate a business unit's supply chain strategy as a ...