Browsing Theses by Author "Cai, Qishu"
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Shipment Consolidation in Discrete Time and Discrete Quantity: Matrix-Analytic Methods
Cai, Qishu (University of Waterloo, 2011-08-30)Shipment consolidation is a logistics strategy whereby many small shipments are combined into a few larger loads. The economies of scale achieved by shipment consolidation help in reducing the transportation costs and ... -
Stochastic Clearing Systems With Markovian Inputs: Performance Evaluation and Optimal Policies
Cai, Qishu (University of Waterloo, 2015-09-01)This thesis studies the stochastic clearing systems which are characterized by a non-decreasing stochastic input process {Y(t), t > 0}, where Y(t) is the cumulative quantity entering the system in [0, t], and an output ...