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Author:: Masihtehrani, Behdad
Title:: Stochastic Analysis of Disruption in Supply Chain Networks
Graduate Program:: Industrial Engineering
Keywords:: Optimal inventory policy
Copula and vine-copula
Supermodular and orthant dependence orders
Multi-source and assembly structures
Dependent supply disruptions
Performance bounds
Numerical analysis
File:: Download Behdad_Dissertation_vf.pdf
Committee Members:: Drs Soundar Kumara And Susan Xu, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Soundar Kumara, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Susan Xu, Committee Member
Tao Yao, Committee Member
M Jeya Chandra, Committee Member

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Author:: Cavdur, Fatih
Title:: Network Mining: Applications to Business Data
Graduate Program:: Industrial Engineering
Keywords:: networks
network mining
asset graphs
business networks
financial systems
stock markets
File:: Download phd_thesis_fc.pdf
Committee Members:: Soundar Kumara, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Soundar Rajan Tirupatikumara, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Ling Rothrock, Committee Member
Tao Yao, Committee Member
C Lee Giles, Committee Member
Lyle Norman Long, Committee Member

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Author:: Yoo, Jung-Woon
Title:: A MATHEMATICAL FRAMEWORK FOR SEMANTIC WEB SERVICE COMPOSITION WITH APPLICATION TO MODULAR PRODUCT DESIGN
Graduate Program:: Industrial Engineering
Keywords:: k-best solution approach
Web service composition
Semantic Web
Integer Programming
quality of service
File:: Download Yoo-Dissertation.pdf
Committee Members:: Dr Soundar Kumara, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Soundar Kumara, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Dongwon Lee, Committee Member
Timothy William Simpson, Committee Member
Jose Antonio Ventura, Committee Member

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Author:: Cui, Liying
Title:: Mathematical theory of service composition and service networks
Graduate Program:: Industrial Engineering
Keywords:: dynamic programming
service composition
complex networks
mathematical theory
concept service (CS) network matrix
goal programming
enterprise integration
File:: Download LiYingCui_DissertationApril1111_AdvisorRevised.pdf
Committee Members:: Soundar Kumara, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Soundar Kumara, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Arunachalam Ravindran, Committee Member
Tao Yao, Committee Member
Hong Xu, Committee Member
Reka Z Albert, Committee Member
Dongwon Lee, Committee Member

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Author:: Yukish, Michael
Title:: Algorithms to Identify Pareto Points in Multi-Dimensional Data Sets
Graduate Program:: Mechanical Engineering
Keywords:: Pareto frontier
efficient frontier
dominance
nondominance
multi-objective
design optimization
File:: Download yukish_PhD_thesis_FINAL.pdf
Committee Members:: Timothy William Simpson, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Mark Thomas Traband, Committee Member
Mary I Frecker, Committee Member
Soundar Kumara, Committee Member

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Author:: Asikoglu, Oyku
Title:: A New Method for Evaluating Design Dependencies in Product Architectures
Graduate Program:: Industrial Engineering
Keywords:: Product design
change propagation in design
design dependencies
product architectures
component interfaces
design flexibility metric
File:: Download OYKU_ASIKOGLU-PHD_FINALDISSERTATION.pdf
Committee Members:: Timothy William Simpson, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Soundar Kumara, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Gul Kremer, Committee Member
Sven G Bilen, Special Member

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Author:: Caliz Ospino, Rodrigo Alberto
Title:: A Nonlinear Queueing-Based Planning and Scheduling Framework for Multi-Product Supply Networks
Graduate Program:: Industrial Engineering
Keywords:: Production Planning
Robust Scheduling
Multi-class Stochastic Networks
Optimal Control
File:: Download Rodrigo_Caliz-PhD_Dissertation_Final_Version.pdf
Committee Members:: Soundar Kumara, Constatino Lagoa, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Soundar Kumara, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Constantino Manuel Lagoa, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Alberto Bressan, Committee Member
Terry Lee Friesz, Committee Member
Tao Yao, Committee Member

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Author:: Bilsel, Ragip Ufuk
Title:: Disruption and Operational Risk Quantification and Mitigation Models for Outsourcing Operations
Graduate Program:: Industrial Engineering
Keywords:: chance constraints
multicriteria optimization
Supply chain risk
extreme vale distributions
File:: Download RUB-Dissertation.pdf
Committee Members:: Arunachalam Ravindran, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Arunachalam Ravindran, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Soundar Kumara, Committee Member
Vittaldas V Prabhu, Committee Member
Douglas J Thomas, Committee Member

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Author:: Kettebekov, Sanshzar
Title:: A Prosody Based Approach for Automated Understanding of Coverbal Gestures
Graduate Program:: Industrial Engineering
Keywords:: gesture recognition
multimodal
HCI
File:: Download thesis_final.pdf
Committee Members:: Soundar Kumara, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Rajeev Sharma, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Ernest Emory Enscore Jr., Committee Member
Richard Donovan Koubek, Committee Member
Rangachar Kasturi, Committee Member
Mohammed Yeasin, Committee Member

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Author:: Yilmaz, Serkan
Title:: MULTI LEVEL OPTIMIZATION OF BURNABLE POISON UTILIZATION FOR ADVANCED PWR FUEL MANAGEMENT
Graduate Program:: Nuclear Engineering
Keywords:: Burnable Poison
Genetic Algorithm
Gadolinium
Nuclear
Optimization
Fuel Management
File:: Download Serkan_Yilmaz_PhD_Thesis_ETD_version.pdf
Committee Members:: Kostadin Nikolov Ivanov, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Yousry Azmy, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Arthur Thompson Motta, Committee Member
Samuel H Levine, Committee Member
Soundar Kumara, Committee Member
Moussa Mahgerefteh, Committee Member

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