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Reducing Disruptive Effects of Patient No-shows: A Scheduling Approach
(2013-11-14)Appointment scheduling systems have been studied for nearly 60 years. From a decision making point of view, related problems can be classified into two categories: static and dynamic. In a static scheduling problem, all ... -
Reverse Logistics: A Multicriteria Decision Model With Uncertainty
(2010-08-20)Waste reduction is critical in today's manufacturing climate. Producers are being compelled to incorporate reverse logistics into their supply chain by government legislation, the potential for recovering economic value, ... -
Risk-Averse Optimization in Multicriteria and Multistage Decision Making
Risk-averse stochastic programming provides means to incorporate a wide range of risk attitudes into decision making. Pioneered by the advances in financial optimization, several risk measures such as Value-at-Risk (VaR) ... -
Robust Markov decision processes with data-driven, distance-based ambiguity sets
We consider finite- and infinite-horizon Markov decision processes (MDPs), with unknown state-transition probabilities. These transition probabilities are assumed to belong to certain ambiguity sets, and the goal is to ... -
Robust, Non-stationary, and Adaptive Fractionation in Radiotherapy
In external beam radiotherapy for cancer, high-energy radiation is passed through the pa- tient’s body from an outside source to kill tumor cells. The challenge is that radiation also damages healthy tissue and organs-at-risk ... -
Scheduling Mass Customized Large Product Assembly Line Considering Learning Effect and Shifting Bottleneck
(2014-04-30)The large product assembly industry is a complex and heavily manually based assembly manufacturing process. Examples are commercial airplanes, ships, and wind turbines. These manufacturing enterprises are increasingly ... -
Simulation and Statistical Methods in Proactive and Strategic Obsolescence Management
In fields with sustainment-dominated systems, where the sustainment costs are larger than the original system costs, managing the life-cycle costs is a non-trivial task. These fields include aviation, power plants, medical, ... -
Statistical Analyses of the Perceptions and Trust of Adaptive Cruise Control Owners
(2012-08-10)Adaptive Cruise Control (ACC), an advanced version of conventional cruise control (CCC), can detect the distance to a vehicle ahead and assist drivers in maintaining a set speed and headway distance. The system has been ... -
Stochastic Combinatorial Optimization with Applications in Graph Covering
We study stochastic combinatorial optimization models and propose methods for their solution. First, we consider a risk-neutral two-stage stochastic programming model for which the objective value function of the second-stage ... -
System Dynamic Modeling as Applied to Coast Guard Cutter Home Porting Decisions: Innovating Systems Engineering Processes in Federal Agencies to Engage Stakeholders, Stimulate Local Economies and Benefit the Public Good
The U.S Coast Guard uses a codified Systems Engineering process to determine the best location for new Coast Guard cutters. This process, called the Cutter Homeport Decision Process (CHDP), quantifies stakeholder input ... -
Systems Modeling of Lung Cancer Screening Programs to Improve Quality
The main aim of this thesis is to study the factors that affect the quality of lung cancer screening with special focus on community based lung cancer screening programs. The variation in false positives and other outcomes ... -
Take-Over Time Modeling and Prediction for Conditional Driving Automation
Autonomous vehicles are designed to enhance the overall driver safety by taking the driver out of the loop. However, the autonomous vehicles that are currently available on the market still require that the driver is ... -
The Effect of Task Complexity on Time Perception in the Virtual Reality Environment: An EEG Study
Background: Virtual reality (VR) technology is increasingly being utilized for multiple purposes. Unlike traditional 2D devices, VR headsets allow individuals to enjoy an immersive experience that includes multisensory ... -
The Influence of Hospital Resource Factors on Adverse Health Outcomes
The "Influence of Hospital Resource Factors on Adverse Health Outcomes" covers the exploratory, observational study that aims to determine the association between resource accessibility variables and adverse health outcomes ... -
Toward Trust-calibrated Customized Vehicle Automation
Vehicle automation has long been an essential component of modern vehicular technologies. From the Advanced Driver Assistance System (ADAS) to fully autonomous vehicles, these technologies are trying to enhance road safety ... -
Tracking consensus in product development teams
(1998)Modern concurrent engineering requires that the perspectives of the stakeholders in the product realization process be harmonized as early as possible in that process. We consider this harmonization to consist largely of ... -
The U.S. Coast Guard 87’ Patrol Boat Maintenance Program: An Analysis of a Scheduling and Resource Leveling Problem
Planning and managing military ship repair projects require a delicate balance between software-based scheduling, resource loading, and risk mitigation strategies. The U.S. Coast Guard Industrial Yard, through use of ... -
Vehicle Distance Threshold for Quayside Operations of Container Terminals
In container terminal quayside operations, vehicles play a vital role in shuttling containers between the quay and the yard. The problem of determining the vehicle fleet size to employ consists of determining the exact ... -
A Web-based System for Optimizing Post Disaster Temporary Housing Allocation
(2012-09-13)Natural catastrophes can result in large scale displacement of populations, who are in urgent need of temporary quarters until permanent housing can be provided. During this period, the temporary housing plays an important ... -
Zero-inflated Models for Semi-continuous Transportation Data
Zero-inflated models have been widely studied and are commonly used in the transportation safety area. Despite the success of zero-inflated models to analyze static data with counting outcomes, challenges remain in the ...