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1. Effective Methodologies for Supplier Selection and Order Quantity Allocation

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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

2. Newsvendor Inventory Decisions under Risk: Analytical and Evolutionary Agent models

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Open Access
Author:
Rangarajan, Atul
Title:
Newsvendor Inventory Decisions under Risk: Analytical and Evolutionary Agent models
Graduate Program:
Industrial Engineering
Keywords:
risk preferences
supply chain disruptions
utility models
Newsvendor model
evolutionary agent computation
inventory models
File:
Download Rangarajan_Dissertation_Final.pdf
Committee Members:
Arunachalam Ravindran, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
V Daniel R Guide Jr., Committee Member
Soundar Rajan Tirupatikumara, Committee Member
David Arthur Nembhard, Committee Member

7. DISTRIBUTED ENERGY-BALANCED ROUTING IN WIRELESS SENSOR NETWORKS

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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

8. DESIGN AND OPTIMIZATION OF PARAMETERS AFFECTING THE PERFORMANCE OF AN ANTIBACTERIAL SYSTEM USING ELECTRICALLY ACTIVATED METALS

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Open Access
Author:
Charumani, Charumani
Title:
DESIGN AND OPTIMIZATION OF PARAMETERS AFFECTING THE PERFORMANCE OF AN ANTIBACTERIAL SYSTEM USING ELECTRICALLY ACTIVATED METALS
Graduate Program:
Industrial Engineering
Keywords:
ELECTRICALLY ACTIVATED METALS
ANTIBACTERIAL
DESIGN PARAMETERS
File:
Download Charumani_Thesis.pdf
Committee Members:
Richard Allen Wysk, Thesis Advisor/Co-Advisor
Richard Allen Wysk, Thesis Advisor/Co-Advisor

9. Decidability and Optimality in Pushdown Control Systems: A New Approach to Discrete Event Control

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Open Access
Author:
Griffin, Christopher Howard
Title:
Decidability and Optimality in Pushdown Control Systems: A New Approach to Discrete Event Control
Graduate Program:
Industrial Engineering
Keywords:
Decidability
Control
Discrete Event System
Optimization
File:
Download GriffinDissertation.pdfDownload CodeArchive.zip
Committee Members:
Tom Michael Cavalier, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Terry Lee Friesz, Committee Member
Jose Ventura, Committee Member
George Kesidis, Committee Member

11. TOWARDS A FRAMEWORK FOR AUTOMATED EVALUATION OF COMPLEX PROBLEM SOLVING ENVIRONMENTS

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Open Access
Author:
Bhandarkar, Damodar
Title:
TOWARDS A FRAMEWORK FOR AUTOMATED EVALUATION OF COMPLEX PROBLEM SOLVING ENVIRONMENTS
Graduate Program:
Industrial Engineering
Keywords:
simulation.
human computer interaction
human factors
File:
Download dnbThesis.pdf
Committee Members:
Ling Rothrock, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Soundar T Kumara, Committee Member
Richard Donovan Koubek, Committee Member
Frank Edward Ritter, Committee Member

14. Decentralized algorithms for search and routing in large-scale networks

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Open Access
Author:
Thadakamalla, Hari Prasad
Title:
Decentralized algorithms for search and routing in large-scale networks
Graduate Program:
Industrial Engineering
Keywords:
decentralized search
localized algorithms
complex networks
networks
local search
algorithms
File:
Download Thadakamalla-Dissertation.pdf
Committee Members:
Soundar Rajan Tirupatikumara, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Reka Z Albert, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
M Jeya Chandra, Committee Member
Arunachalam Ravindran, Committee Member
Arvind Rangaswamy, Committee Member
Leonid N Vaserstein, Committee Member

17. EXTERNAL FAILURE COST ESTIMATION USING RELIABILITY MODELS: AN ALTERNATIVE TO TAGUCHI’S LOSS FUNCTION

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Open Access
Author:
Hassan, Jawad S.
Title:
EXTERNAL FAILURE COST ESTIMATION USING RELIABILITY MODELS: AN ALTERNATIVE TO TAGUCHI’S LOSS FUNCTION
Graduate Program:
Industrial Engineering
Keywords:
Alternative to loss function
External Failure Costs
Reliability Model
File:
Download mythesis-final.pdf
Committee Members:
M Jeya Chandra, Thesis Advisor/Co-Advisor
M Jeya Chandra, Thesis Advisor/Co-Advisor

19. PiDES: A FORMALISM FOR COMPLEX ADAPTIVE DISCRETE EVENT SIMULATION

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Open Access
Author:
Wang, Jianrui
Title:
PiDES: A FORMALISM FOR COMPLEX ADAPTIVE DISCRETE EVENT SIMULATION
Graduate Program:
Industrial Engineering
Keywords:
formalism
high level architecture
discrete event simulation
stochastic pi-calculus
File:
Download JianruiWangPhDThesis.pdf
Committee Members:
Richard Allen Wysk, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Richard Allen Wysk, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Sanjay B Joshi, Committee Member
Akhil Kumar, Committee Member
Vittaldas V Prabhu, Committee Member
Ling Rothrock, Committee Member

20. Market-based Dynamic Control of Vehicle Deployment and Shipment Load Makeup in RFID-enabled Environments

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Open Access
Author:
KIM, JIN DAE
Title:
Market-based Dynamic Control of Vehicle Deployment and Shipment Load Makeup in RFID-enabled Environments
Graduate Program:
Industrial Engineering
Keywords:
RFID
Multiagent-based Systems
Market-based Control
Supply Chains
File:
Download JDKIM_Dissertation.pdf
Committee Members:
Soundar Rajan Tirupatikumara, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Arunachalam Ravindran, Committee Member
M Jeya Chandra, Committee Member
Susan H Xu, Committee Member
Shang Tae Yee, Committee Member

21. PROCESS MODELING AND SIMULATION OF FOCUSED ION BEAM MILLING OF WATER ICE IN A CRYOGENIC ENVIRONMENT

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Open Access
Author:
Fu, Jing
Title:
PROCESS MODELING AND SIMULATION OF FOCUSED ION BEAM MILLING OF WATER ICE IN A CRYOGENIC ENVIRONMENT
Graduate Program:
Industrial Engineering
Keywords:
Microtomy
Cryo-EM
ion sputtering
focused ion beam
water ice
Cryo-FIB
File:
Download Jing_Fu_Dissertation.pdf
Committee Members:
Sanjay B Joshi, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Jeffrey M Catchmark, Committee Member
Timothy William Simpson, Committee Member
Richard Allen Wysk, Committee Member

22. DESIGN AND IMPLEMENTATION OF COLUMN GENERATION TO SOLVE LARGE-SCALE PROFIT-MAXIMIZATION FOREST MANAGEMENT PROBLEMS

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Open Access
Author:
Mehta, Krunal
Title:
DESIGN AND IMPLEMENTATION OF COLUMN GENERATION TO SOLVE LARGE-SCALE PROFIT-MAXIMIZATION FOREST MANAGEMENT PROBLEMS
Graduate Program:
Industrial Engineering
Keywords:
Column Generation
File:
Download MasterThesis_Krunal_Mehta_MS_IE.pdf
Committee Members:
Tom Michael Cavalier, Thesis Advisor/Co-Advisor
Marc Eric Mcdill, Thesis Advisor/Co-Advisor

23. FLOW SHOP SCHEDULING WITH SYNCHRONOUS AND ASYNCHRONOUS TRANSPORTATION TIMES

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Open Access
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

24. A Speedy Algorithm For Determining Personalized Discounts For Products Approaching Their End-of-Life Stage

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Open Access
Author:
Inochanon, Keerati
Title:
A Speedy Algorithm For Determining Personalized Discounts For Products Approaching Their End-of-Life Stage
Graduate Program:
Industrial Engineering
Keywords:
decision support system
personalized discount
inventory policy
dynamic pricing
expert system
fuzzy inference rules
data mining
File:
Download inochanon-thesis.pdf
Committee Members:
Dr Soundar Kumara, Thesis Advisor/Co-Advisor
Soundar Rajan Tirupatikumara, Thesis Advisor/Co-Advisor

27. APPLICATIONS OF THE ANT COLONY OPTIMIZATION ALGORITHM IN COMBINATORIAL OPTIMIZATION

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Open Access
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

29. Resilient Global Supply Chain Network Design Optimization

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Open Access
Author:
Portillo Bollat, Rodolfo Carlos
Title:
Resilient Global Supply Chain Network Design Optimization
Graduate Program:
Industrial Engineering
Keywords:
optimization under uncertainty
stochastic optimization
multi-criteria
multiple criteria
distribution network
network optimization
supply chain design
supply chain
exchange rate uncertainty
costs uncertainty
demand uncertainty
profitability optimization
profit optimization
File:
Download Portillo-Bollat_Dissertation_Final.pdf
Committee Members:
Richard A Wysk, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
A. Ravi Ravindran, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Richard Allen Wysk, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Vittaldas V Prabhu, Committee Member
Fariborz Ghadar, Committee Member
Felisa Del Carmen Preciado, Committee Member

30. ATTAINING KNOWLEDGE WORKFORCE AGILITY IN A PRODUCT LIFE CYCLE ENVIRONMENT USING REAL OPTIONS

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Open Access
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

31. Performance Modeling and Resource Allocation for Adaptive Agent-Based Systems

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Open Access
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

32. AN INVESTIGATION INTO THE EFFICIENCY AND IMPROVEMENT OF INDUSTRIAL LAAG FIXTURE

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Open Access
Author:
Janarthanam, Santhosh Kumar
Title:
AN INVESTIGATION INTO THE EFFICIENCY AND IMPROVEMENT OF INDUSTRIAL LAAG FIXTURE
Graduate Program:
Industrial Engineering
Keywords:
LAAG
Advanced fixturing
Photocurable adhesives
Workholding
File:
Download MS_thesis_Santhosh_Kumar_Janarthanam.pdf
Committee Members:
Edward Demeter, Thesis Advisor/Co-Advisor
Edward Demeter, Thesis Advisor/Co-Advisor
El Amine Lehtihet, Thesis Advisor/Co-Advisor

33. A Strategic Module-Based Platform Design Method for Developing Customized Families of Products and Services

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Open Access
Author:
Moon, Seung Ki
Title:
A Strategic Module-Based Platform Design Method for Developing Customized Families of Products and Services
Graduate Program:
Industrial Engineering
Keywords:
Product Family Design
Service Family Design
Module-based Platform
Data Mining
Decision-Making
Multi-Agent System
Mass Customization
File:
Download SeungKi.Moon.Ph.D.Dissertation.pdf
Committee Members:
Timothy William Simpson, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Soundar Rajan Tirupatikumara, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
David Arthur Nembhard, Committee Member
Dongwon Lee, Committee Member

34. CLUSTERING AND CONNECTIVITY PROBLEMS IN COMPLEX NETWORKS

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Open Access
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

36. INFORMATION-THEORETIC APPROACHES FOR COMBINED MODELING OF QUALITATIVE AND QUANTITATIVE DATA

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Open Access
Author:
Salaka, Vamsi
Title:
INFORMATION-THEORETIC APPROACHES FOR COMBINED MODELING OF QUALITATIVE AND QUANTITATIVE DATA
Graduate Program:
Industrial Engineering
Keywords:
ontology
Data Mining
Text Mining
Information theory
vector space modeling
File:
Download Dissertation_-_Vamsi_Salaka_-_Final.pdf
Committee Members:
Dennis Kon Jin Lin, Committee Member
Richard Allen Wysk, Committee Member
Vittaldas V Prabhu, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Meg Leavy Small, Committee Member

37. An Analysis of Factors Predicting Click Through Rate During Web Searching Using Neural Networks

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Open Access
Author:
Zhang, Ying
Title:
An Analysis of Factors Predicting Click Through Rate During Web Searching Using Neural Networks
Graduate Program:
Industrial Engineering
Keywords:
RBFN
MLPN
transactional log
neural network
search engine
File:
Download zhang_thesis_copy_edit_final_version-1.pdf
Committee Members:
Bernard James Jansen, Thesis Advisor/Co-Advisor
Enrique Del Castillo, Thesis Advisor/Co-Advisor

38. A Recommendation for the Backpack Load Limit of Middle School Students Based on Physiological and Psychophysical Measurements

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Open Access
Author:
Bauer, Denise Helen
Title:
A Recommendation for the Backpack Load Limit of Middle School Students Based on Physiological and Psychophysical Measurements
Graduate Program:
Industrial Engineering
Keywords:
children and backpacks
backpack load limits
File:
Download DeniseHelenBauer.pdf
Committee Members:
Andris Freivalds, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Leah C Newman, Committee Member
Ling Rothrock, Committee Member
Richard J. Koubek, Committee Member
John Henry Challis, Committee Member