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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

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

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

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

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

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

Author:

Kim, Jong Wook

Title:

Procedural Skills: From Learning to Forgetting

Graduate Program:

Industrial Engineering

Keywords:

Forgetting
Learning
ACT-R
Cognitive Architecture
Procedural Skills
Training

File:

Download kim08phd.pdf

Committee Members:

Frank Edward Ritter, Committee Member
Andris Freivalds, Committee Member
Richard Donovan Koubek, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
David Arthur Nembhard, Committee Member

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

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

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

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

Author:

De Grano, Melanie Lynn

Title:

An Auction System for Nurse Scheduling

Graduate Program:

Industrial Engineering

Keywords:

nurse scheduling
auctions
integer programming
healthcare industry

File:

Download MELANIEDEGRANO2007PHD.pdf

Committee Members:

Deborah Jean Medeiros, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Jose Antonio Ventura, Committee Member
Catherine Mary Harmonosky, Committee Member
Michael Freimer, Committee Member

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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