We examine how the architecture of products relates to their quality. Using an architectural representation that accounts for both the hierarchical and dependency relationships between modules and components, we define a new construct, system cyclicality. System cyclicality recognizes component...

Purpose: Supply chains must rebuild for resilience to respond to challenges posed by systemwide disruptions. Unlike past disruptions that were narrow in impact and short-term in duration, the Covid pandemic presented a systemic disruption and revealed shortcomings in responses. This study...

Empirically grounding analytics (EGA) is an area of research that emerges at the intersection of empirical and analytical research. By “empirically grounding,” we mean both the empirical justification of model assumptions and parameters and the empirical assessment of model results and...

Managers of multiple projects with overly constrained resources face difficult decisions in how to allocate resources to minimize the average delay per project or the time to complete the whole set of projects. We address the static resource-constrained multi-project scheduling problem (RCMPSP)...

Intro -- Contents -- Series Foreword -- Preface -- Chapter 1. Introduction to Design Structure Matrix Methods -- The Complex World of Systems -- What Is the DSM? -- Matrix-Based Tools for Modeling System Architectures -- Types of DSM Models -- A Brief History of DSM -- Structure of This Book --...