Browsing Theses by Subject "Risk management"
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Behavioural Economics: Application to Quotidian Construction Decisions
(University of Waterloo, 2015-07-20)Working on a construction project requires making important decisions quickly and frequently. Most of these decisions are made under risk in that the outcomes are not known, but their probabilities and impacts can be ... -
A Hybrid of Stochastic Programming Approaches with Economic and Operational Risk Management for Petroleum Refinery Planning under Uncertainty
(University of Waterloo, 2007-06-14)In view of the current situation of fluctuating high crude oil prices, it is now more important than ever for petroleum refineries to operate at an optimal level in the present dynamic global economy. Acknowledging the ... -
Incorporating Musculoskeletal Disorder Prevention into Organizations’ Management Systems
(University of Waterloo, 2015-04-09)Musculoskeletal disorders (MSD) – for example, low back pain or shoulder tendinitis -are prevalent disorders with significant economic burdens to organizations and personal costs to workers. The approaches to prevent these ... -
Robust Risk Aggregation Techniques and Applications
(University of Waterloo, 2022-08-23)Risk aggregation, which concerns the statistical behaviors of an aggregation position S(X) associated with a random vector X = (X1, . . . , Xn), is an important research topic in risk management, economics, and statistics. ...