Willard Simmons
Boston, MA
Research on Computational System Architecture, Design and Optimization:
W. L. Simmons. A Framework for Decision Support in Systems Architecting. PhD Thesis, Dept. of Aeronautics and Astronautics, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, MA, February 2008
B. H. Y. Koo, W. L. Simmons, and E. F. Crawley. Algebra of Systems: a meta-language for model synthesis and evaluation. IEEE Transactions on Systems, Man and Cybernetics, Part A: Systems and Humans, 39(3):501 – 513, May 2009.
P. D. Wooster, W. L. Simmons, and W. K. Hofstetter. Opening space for humanity - applying open source concepts to human space activities. In Proceedings of AIAA Space 2007, September 2007.
W. L. Simmons, B. H. Y. Koo, and E. F. Crawley. Architecture generation for Moon-Mars exploration using an executable meta-language. In Proceedings of AIAA Space 2005, 30 August - 1 September, Long Beach, CA, 2005.
Research on the search for extra solar planets in the habitable zone:
W. L. Simmons. A pinspeck camera for exo-planet spectroscopy. Master’s thesis, Princeton University, Princeton, NJ, May 2005.
W. L. Simmons, W. C. Cash, S. Seager, E. Wilkinson, N. J. Kasdin, R. J. Vanderbei, N. Chow, E. Gralla, and J. Kleingeld. The new worlds observer: a mission for high-resolution spectroscopy of extra-solar terrestrial planets. In Astronomical Telescopes and Instrumentation, SPIE Conference Series, Glasgow, Scotland, June 2004.