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Author:: Mendoza, Abraham
Title:: Effective Methodologies for Supplier Selection and Order Quantity Allocation
Graduate Program:: Industrial Engineering
Keywords:: vendor selection
inventory management
supply chain management
order quantity allocation
supplier selection
File:: Download AbrahamMendoza-FinalDissertation.pdf
Committee Members:: Jose Antonio Ventura, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Arunachalam Ravindran, Committee Member
Tao Yao, Committee Member
Terry Paul Harrison, Committee Member

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Author:: Gauthama Sankar, Aswini
Title:: Time Allocation in Projects under Uncertainty: A Robust Optimization Approach
Graduate Program:: Industrial Engineering
Keywords:: Robust Optimization
Project Management
Uncertainty
File:: Download Aswini_Thesis_-_Time_Allocation_RO_Approach.pdf
Committee Members:: Tao Yao, Thesis Advisor/Co-Advisor
Susan H Xu, Thesis Advisor/Co-Advisor

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Author:: OK, CHANG-SOO
Title:: DISTRIBUTED ENERGY-BALANCED ROUTING IN WIRELESS SENSOR NETWORKS
Graduate Program:: Industrial Engineering
Keywords:: Wireless Sensor network
Energy Balancing
Distributed Control
Social Welfare Function
Ant Colony Optimization
Energy Cost
File:: Download okcs-Dissertation.pdf
Committee Members:: Soundar Rajan Tirupatikumara, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Arunachalam Ravindran, Committee Member
Tao Yao, Committee Member
Prasenjit Mitra, Committee Member

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Author:: Huang, Kwei-Long
Title:: FLOW SHOP SCHEDULING WITH SYNCHRONOUS AND ASYNCHRONOUS TRANSPORTATION TIMES
Graduate Program:: Industrial Engineering
Keywords:: Material handling
Transportation
Makespan
Flow shop scheduling
Dynamic prgramming
Heuristic algorithm
File:: Download KweiLongHuang_Dissertation.pdf
Committee Members:: Jose Antonio Ventura, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Arunachalam Ravindran, Committee Member
Tao Yao, Committee Member
Terry Paul Harrison, Committee Member

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Author:: Seo, Minseok
Title:: APPLICATIONS OF THE ANT COLONY OPTIMIZATION ALGORITHM IN COMBINATORIAL OPTIMIZATION
Graduate Program:: Industrial Engineering
Keywords:: job-shop scheduling problem
Steiner tree problem
ant colony optimization
File:: Download Dissertation.pdf
Committee Members:: Dr Jose Ventura, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Jose Antonio Ventura, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
M Jeya Chandra, Committee Member
Tao Yao, Committee Member
Paul Peter Jovanis, Committee Member

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Author:: Qin, Ruwen
Title:: ATTAINING KNOWLEDGE WORKFORCE AGILITY IN A PRODUCT LIFE CYCLE ENVIRONMENT USING REAL OPTIONS
Graduate Program:: Industrial Engineering
Keywords:: knowledge workforce
agility
product life cycle
real options
File:: Download DissertationRuwenQin.pdf
Committee Members:: David Arthur Nembhard, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Harriet Black Nembhard, Committee Member
Bryan A Norman, Committee Member
James Landis Rosenberger, Committee Member
Tao Yao, Committee Member

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Author:: Gnanasambandam, Shanmuganathan
Title:: Performance Modeling and Resource Allocation for Adaptive Agent-Based Systems
Graduate Program:: Industrial Engineering
Keywords:: queueing
performance
resource allocation
agents
logistics
supply-chain
optimization
File:: Download thesis_nathan.pdf
Committee Members:: Soundar Rajan Tirupatikumara, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
M Jeya Chandra, Committee Member
Tao Yao, Committee Member
Dr Jun Shu, Committee Member
Dr Natarajan Gautam, Committee Member

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Author:: Raghavan, Ushanandini
Title:: CLUSTERING AND CONNECTIVITY PROBLEMS IN COMPLEX NETWORKS
Graduate Program:: Industrial Engineering
Keywords:: networks
social networks
community detection
wireless sensor networks
clustering
connectivity
File:: Download Raghavan-Dissertation.pdf
Committee Members:: Soundar Kumara, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Reka Z Albert, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Dennis Kon Jin Lin, Committee Member
Tao Yao, Committee Member
Arvind Rangaswamy, Committee Member

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