Browsing Theses by Supervisor "Abouee Mehrizi, Hossein"
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Condition-based Inspection and Maintenance of Medical Devices
(University of Waterloo, 2017-08-25)Inspection and Maintenance of medical devices are essential for modern health services, but the low availability of devices or unnecessary maintenance can cause major problems. A proper maintenance program can signi ... -
Control Mechanisms in Queueing Systems with Nonlinear Waiting Costs
(University of Waterloo, 2017-08-14)In many queueing systems, customers have been observed to exhibit strategic behavior. Each customer gains a value when receiving a product or getting served and suffers when incurring a delay. We consider a nonlinear ... -
Data-Driven Analytics to Support Scheduling of Multi-Priority Multi-Class Patients with Wait Targets
(University of Waterloo, 2016-08-09)The aim of dynamic scheduling is to efficiently assign available resources to the most suitable patients. The dynamic assignment of multi-class, multi-priority patients over time has long been a challenge, especially for ... -
The Impact of Information on the Performance of an M/M/1 Queueing System
(University of Waterloo, 2017-01-23)Reviews provided by previous customers contain information, which can be used by new customers. This research examines the impact of the user-generated reviews, on the performance of an M/M/1 queueing system. We assume ... -
Robust Multi-Class Multi-Period Scheduling of MRI Services with Wait Time Targets
(University of Waterloo, 2018-01-23)In recent years, long wait times for healthcare services have become a challenge in most healthcare delivery systems in Canada. This issue becomes even more important when there are priorities in patients' treatment which ... -
A Robust Optimization Approach for Advance Scheduling in Health Care Systems with Demand Uncertainty: Policy Insights
(University of Waterloo, 2021-02-17)Patient wait times have increased significantly over the past few decades. According to the Canadian Institute for Health Information (CIHI), 40% of Canadians have experienced difficulties in receiving diagnostics tests. ... -
Staff Scheduling During a Pandemic
(University of Waterloo, 2021-09-30)The year 2019 revealed that some of the policies which have shaped the core structure of many organizations in different industries for a long time, could result in an absolute failure in an unprecedented crisis like the ... -
Stochastic Perishable Inventory Systems: Dual-Balancing and Look-Ahead Approaches
(University of Waterloo, 2016-12-23)We study a single-item, multi-period, stochastic perishable inventory problem under both backlogging and lost-sales circumstances, with and without an order capacity constraint in each period. We first model the ...