Management Sciences
This is the collection for the University of Waterloo's Department of Management Sciences .
Research outputs are organized by type (eg. Master Thesis, Article, Conference Paper).
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Strategic Network Design for Delivery by Drones under Service-based Competition
(University of Waterloo, 2017-08-14)In today’s world, E-commerce is a fast growing industry and e-retailers are looking for innovative ways to deliver customer orders within short delivery times at a low cost. Currently, the use of drone technology for ... -
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 ... -
Shipment Scheduling In Hub Location Problems
(University of Waterloo, 2017-07-26)In this thesis, we incorporate shipment scheduling decisions into hub location problems. Our aim is to determine optimal locations of hubs, hub network structure, and the number of vehicles to operate on the hub network ... -
Optimizing Order Consolidation with Simulation Optimization
(University of Waterloo, 2017-05-15)In this work we study the order consolidation process of an e-retailing warehouse using real data. Order consolidation is a process that follows the picking operation in a warehouse. After stock keeping units (SKUs) of an ... -
Bi-objective p-hub Location Problems
(University of Waterloo, 2017-05-09)In this thesis, we introduce, model, and solve bi-objective hub location problems. The two well-known hub location problems from the literature, the p-hub median and p-hub center problems, are uni ed under a bi-objective ... -
Essays on International Venture Capital
(University of Waterloo, 2017-04-21)Venture Capital firms (VCs), compared with other sources of financing, are known to be a value-adding source of finance for high-growth entrepreneurial firms. Venture capital has transitioned from a local to an international ... -
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 ... -
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 ... -
Location-Routing Problems with Economies of Scale
(University of Waterloo, 2016-10-26)The purpose of the location-routing problem is to select facility locations, assign customers to facilities, and design routes between facilities and customers. The most common objective is to achieve minimal cost. In ... -
Help-Seeking Behaviour in Computer-Mediated Communication
(University of Waterloo, 2016-09-19)Often when an individual decides to seek help, several communication media are available to him or her (e.g., email, phone, in-person), which means the help-seeker faces a media selection decision. To make this decision, ... -
Understanding and Supporting Newcomers to 3D Modelling and Digital Fabrication
(University of Waterloo, 2016-08-31)Interest in understanding and facilitating 3D digital fabrication is growing in the HCI research community. However, most of our insights about end-user interaction with fabrication are currently based on interactions of ... -
Statistical Method of Goodness on Quantitative Models of Efficiency and Effectiveness
(University of Waterloo, 2016-08-17)Motivated by different qualitative constructs of efficiency and effectiveness [Cameron, 1978] and the variety of distinct quantitative models of measuring efficiency and effectiveness derived from them, we propose a ... -
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 structuring of ambiguous stimuli in human communication
(University of Waterloo, 2016-05-18)Abstract Information theory (Shannon, 1948) and relative similarity (Rosch and Mervis, 1975) are used to investigate the problem of how people communicate about ambiguous, unstructured stimuli. Specifically, the following ... -
Forging links between innovation and sustainability:An empirical examination of the effects on a firm’s financial performance
(University of Waterloo, 2016-04-29)Greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions from the North American energy and energy-intensive materials production sectors account for more than 50 percent of total GHG emissions. Based on the argument that CO2 emissions need to be ... -
Investigating the Effect of Pace Mechanic on Player Motivation and Experience
(University of Waterloo, 2016-03-30)Games have long been employed to motivate people towards positive behavioral change. Numerous studies, for example, have found people who were previously disinterested in a task can be enticed to spend hours gathering ... -
Supply Chain Network Design with Concave Costs: Theory and Applications
(University of Waterloo, 2016-01-13)Many practical decision models can be formulated as concave minimization problems. Supply chain network design problems (SCNDP) that explicitly account for economies-of-scale and/or risk pooling often lead to mathematical ... -
Exploring How Information and Communications Technology (ICT) Firms Create 'Value' for Organizational Stakeholders
(University of Waterloo, 2015-12-09)The understanding of how firms create value for their stakeholders is important for advancing the empirical body of knowledge on stakeholder theory. This is especially relevant for the exploration of technology companies ... -
A Quantitative Model of Perception of Randomness in Structured Space
(University of Waterloo, 2015-12-02)The literature on the perception and generation of randomness suggests that people’s conception of randomness deviates from true randomness in predictable and consistent ways. In general, people see patterns or repetitions ... -
On Competition for Undergraduate Co-op Placement: A Graph Approach
(University of Waterloo, 2015-09-30)The objective of this thesis is to improve the co-operative (co-op) education process by analyzing the relationships among academic programs in the context of the co-op job market. To do this, we propose and apply a novel ...
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