1. DETECTION AND EVALUATION OF COMMUNITY STRUCTURES IN SOCIAL NETWORKS Open Access Author: Ghurye, Akshay Dattatraya Title: DETECTION AND EVALUATION OF COMMUNITY STRUCTURES IN SOCIAL NETWORKS Graduate Program: Industrial Engineering Keywords: parallel programmingcommunity detectionoverlappingsocial networkscomplexity File: Download AkshayGhurye-Thesis.pdf Committee Members: Soundar Kumara, Thesis Advisor/Co-AdvisorSoundar R. T. Kumara, Thesis Advisor/Co-Advisor
2. An Evolutionary Game Model of Self-Deception and the Effect of Belief on Performance Open Access Author: Achampong, Christina Title: An Evolutionary Game Model of Self-Deception and the Effect of Belief on Performance Graduate Program: Industrial Engineering Keywords: collaborationcompetitionhawk-doveevolutionary dynamicsgame theoryself-deception File: Download Christina__Achampong_MSThesis.pdf Committee Members: Eli Christopher C Byrne, Thesis Advisor/Co-AdvisorSoundar Kumara, Thesis Advisor/Co-AdvisorDr Christopher C Byrne, Thesis Advisor/Co-Advisor
3. An Application of a Thesaurus Process Model to Human Resource Business Process Modeling Open Access Author: Odewade, Taiwo Oiuwaseyi Title: An Application of a Thesaurus Process Model to Human Resource Business Process Modeling Graduate Program: Industrial Engineering Keywords: Business Process ModelBusiness Process Modelling File: Download MS_Thesis.pdf Committee Members: Soundar Kumara, Thesis Advisor/Co-AdvisorEli Christopher C Byrne, Thesis Advisor/Co-Advisor
4. Predictive Analytics of Patient Hospital Adverse Events after Colorectal Surgery Open Access Author: Guo, Sijia Title: Predictive Analytics of Patient Hospital Adverse Events after Colorectal Surgery Graduate Program: Industrial Engineering Keywords: RegressionReadmissionMortalityLength of StayComplication File: Download Sijia_Guo_Masters_Thesis.pdf Committee Members: Soundar Kumara, Thesis Advisor/Co-AdvisorGuodong Pang, Thesis Advisor/Co-AdvisorVenkataraman Shankar, Thesis Advisor/Co-Advisor
5. Simplifying Large Scale-free Networks by Optimizing The Information Content and Incomprehensibility Open Access Author: Julaiti, Juxihong Title: Simplifying Large Scale-free Networks by Optimizing The Information Content and Incomprehensibility Graduate Program: Industrial Engineering Keywords: Scale-free NetworksSimplificationShannon Entropy File: Download FINAL_MSTHESIS_JUXIHONG.pdf Committee Members: Soundar Kumara, Thesis Advisor/Co-AdvisorSeifu Chonde, Committee MemberJanis Terpenny, Committee Member
6. Distributed Control of a Parcel Delivery System through Crowdsourcing Open Access Author: Nadig, Adithya Title: Distributed Control of a Parcel Delivery System through Crowdsourcing Graduate Program: Industrial Engineering Keywords: CrowdsourcingParcel Delivery SystemAuctionGenetic AlgorithmDistributed AlgorithmDistributed Arrival Time Controller File: Download Nadig_Thesis_Crdsrcing_Submission.pdf Committee Members: Vittaldas V Prabhu, Thesis Advisor/Co-AdvisorSoundar Kumara, Committee MemberJanis P Terpenny, Committee Member
7. Improve Food Supply Chain Traceability using Blockchain Open Access Author: Mohan, Tharun Title: Improve Food Supply Chain Traceability using Blockchain Graduate Program: Industrial Engineering Keywords: food supply chainfood tracebility systemsblockchain File: Download Improve_Food_Supply_Chain_Traceability_using_Blockchain.pdf Committee Members: Soundar Kumara, Thesis Advisor/Co-AdvisorTerry Harrison, Committee MemberJanis Terpenny, Committee Member
8. Condition-based Maintenance Policy Optimization Using Genetic Algorithms and Gaussian Markov Improvement Algorithm Open Access Author: Hoffman, Michael L Title: Condition-based Maintenance Policy Optimization Using Genetic Algorithms and Gaussian Markov Improvement Algorithm Graduate Program: Industrial Engineering Keywords: condition-based maintenancemaintenance optimizationgenetic algorithmgaussian markov improvement algorithm File: Download Hoffman_Thesis.pdf Committee Members: Soundar Kumara, Thesis Advisor/Co-AdvisorEunhye Song, Thesis Advisor/Co-AdvisorMichael Brundage, Committee Member
9. ONLINE CUSTOMER REVIEW ANALYTICS Open Access Author: Chumongkhon, Visanu Title: ONLINE CUSTOMER REVIEW ANALYTICS Graduate Program: Industrial Engineering Keywords: Text ClassificationMachine LearningSentiment AnalysisTopic ModelingOnline Review AnalyticsSupport Vector MachineConvolutional Neural NetworkVADER File: Download MS_Thesis_Visanu_Chumongkhon.pdf Committee Members: Soundar Kumara, Thesis Advisor/Co-Advisor
10. Identifying and Mitigating Maverick Spend at Penn State Purchasing Services Open Access Author: Sheth, Sureel Shreyas Title: Identifying and Mitigating Maverick Spend at Penn State Purchasing Services Graduate Program: Industrial Engineering Keywords: Maverick SpendPurchasing ServicesP-cardSRFCMitigation Strategies File: Download MS_Thesis_Final.pdf Committee Members: Soundar Kumara, Thesis Advisor/Co-AdvisorTerry Harrison, Committee Member
11. Design Anywhere Manufacture Anywhere: A Novel Distribution Manufacturing Framework Open Access Author: Liu, Meng Title: Design Anywhere Manufacture Anywhere: A Novel Distribution Manufacturing Framework Graduate Program: Industrial Engineering Keywords: Manufacturing processShape descriptorDo-It-Yourself File: Download Liu_Meng_Thesis_final.pdf Committee Members: Soundar Kumara, Thesis Advisor/Co-AdvisorSaurabh Basu, Committee Member
12. Analysis of Opioid Related Adverse Events and Signal Detection with Machine Learning Open Access Author: Davaasuren, Dolzodmaa Title: Analysis of Opioid Related Adverse Events and Signal Detection with Machine Learning Graduate Program: Industrial Engineering Keywords: Opioid drugsAdverse Drug EventsAdverse Drug ReactionsDrug-Drug Interaction File: Download FInal_thesis_DD.pdf Committee Members: Soundar Kumara, Thesis Advisor/Co-AdvisorRobert Voigt, Committee Member
13. Self-organizing network modelling of 3D objects Open Access Author: Liu, Runsang Title: Self-organizing network modelling of 3D objects Graduate Program: Industrial Engineering Keywords: Computer-aided designShape matchingNetwork modellingobject recognition File: Download Thesis.pdf Committee Members: Hui Yang, Thesis Advisor/Co-AdvisorSoundar Kumara, Committee MemberRobert Carl Voigt, Program Head/ChairLingzhou Xue, Committee Member
14. markov decision-making process for risk reduction strategies in breast cancer Open Access Author: Qiu, Zihang Title: markov decision-making process for risk reduction strategies in breast cancer Graduate Program: Industrial Engineering Keywords: Markov ChainMarkov Decision Making ProcessBreast CancerHierarchical Gaussian ProcessMissing Data ImputationTreatment PolicyTransition Probability File: Download Zihang_Qiu-Thesis45.pdf Committee Members: Hui Yang, Thesis Advisor/Co-AdvisorRobert Carl Voigt, Program Head/ChairSoundar Kumara, Committee MemberLingzhou Xue, Committee Member
15. Sepsis Data Analytics Open Access Author: Shen, Sida Title: Sepsis Data Analytics Graduate Program: Industrial Engineering Keywords: Machine learningDeep learningSepsisHealthcareUnsupervised LearningData Mining File: Download Thesis_Sida_Shen_Final.pdf Committee Members: Soundar Kumara, Thesis Advisor/Co-AdvisorRobert Carl Voigt, Program Head/ChairKamesh Madduri, Committee Member