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Canada’s Innovation landscape: Technological Diversity, Invention Ownership, and University Intellectual Property Policies
(University of Waterloo, 2019-12-11)This thesis examines Canada’s innovation landscape in three essays: the first identifies the patterns of innovation and technological diversification of Canada during the last three decades, the second identifies the ... -
Capabilities Enabling Product Orientation and Service Orientation: A Study of Canadian Software Firms
(University of Waterloo, 2010-08-31)This thesis identifies the unique capabilities that characterise product-oriented vs. service-oriented firms in the software industry. Firms in the software industry have very different business models from other industries. ... -
Capacity and assortment planning under one-way supplier-driven substitution for pharmacy kiosks with low drug demand
(Elsevier, 2020-04-01)MedAvail Technologies Inc. is a healthcare technology company that develops new technologies for self-serve pharmacy solutions. The technology, called MedCenter, is a pharmacy kiosk that provides 24/7, easy, and reliable ... -
Capacity Pricing in Electric Generation Expansion
(University of Waterloo, 2009-12-16)The focus of this thesis is to explore a new mechanism to give added incentive to invest in new capacities in deregulated electricity markets. There is a lot of concern in energy markets, regarding lack of sufficient private ... -
Carbon Tax Based on the Emission Factor
(University of Waterloo, 2013-10-02)In response to growing concerns about the negative impact of GHG emissions, several countries such as the European Union have adopted a cap-and-trade policy to limit the overall emissions levels. Alternatively, other ... -
Carrier Managed Transportation in Supply Chain Management
(University of Waterloo, 2011-08-30)Logistics Transportation is an indispensable step that connects production, storage, and the final customers. Plenty of previous research has been done to achieve the goals such as low cost, high accuracy in timing, good ... -
Chemotherapy Treatment Models: Incorporating Tumor Growth and Stochastic Cancer Staging
(University of Waterloo, 2021-09-13)Cancer is a deadly disease causing a heavy health burden worldwide throughout the recorded history. Chemotherapy is widely used to treat any type of cancer. With an enormous effort to improve cancer chemotherapy treatment ... -
Circular economy: Joint dynamic pricing and recycling investments
(Elsevier, 2021-06-01)In a circular economy, the use of recycled resources in production is a key performance indicator for management. Yet, academic studies are still unable to inform managers on appropriate recycling and pricing policies. We ... -
Cognitive repairs in decision-making by venture capitalists
(University of Waterloo, 2009-01-23)This paper examines cognitive repairs as they apply to the decision-making process used by venture capitalists, asking the question of “how could, or how do, cognitive repairs play a role in the decision-making process ... -
Collaborative Logistics in Vehicle Routing
(University of Waterloo, 2008-10-06)Less-Than-Truckload (LTL) carriers generally serve geographical regions that are more localized than the inter-city routes served by truckload carriers. That localization can lead to urban freight transportation routes ... -
Collection Center Location with Equity Considerations in Reverse Logistics Networks
(Taylor and Francis, 2014-11-01)In this paper, we study a collection center location problem with equity considerations within reverse logistics network design. The aim of the problem is to determine the locations and the capacities of the collection ... -
Collective Intelligence in Collaborative Tagging System
(University of Waterloo, 2009-10-02)Recently, a new form of organizing, sharing and finding information, named tagging, has gained importance because its results are the product of the combined efforts of the actual users’ opinions of the information. In ... -
A Comparative Study of Univariate Time-series Methods for Sales Forecasting
(University of Waterloo, 2020-01-16)Sales time-series forecasters, data scientists and managers often use timeseries forecasting methods to predict sales. Nonetheless, it is still a question which time-series method a forecaster is best off using, if they ... -
Competitive Project Portfolio Management
(University of Waterloo, 2011-12-21)Although project portfolio management (PPM) has been an active research area over the past 50 years, budget allocation models that consider competition are sparse. Firms faced with the project portfolio management problem ... -
Complementarities in the Implementation of Advanced Manufacturing Technologies
(University of Waterloo, 2004)Within the last decade, the importance of flexibility and efficiency has increased in the manufacturing sector. The rising level of uncertainty in consumer preferences has caused many organizations to aggressively search ... -
A conceptual framework to explain technology acceptance of electronic negotiation utilizing software agents
(University of Waterloo, 2006)Electronic negotiation (e-negotiation) is a relatively new technology that has spawned as a result of the growth of electronic commerce (e-commerce). While researchers have dealt with a variety of topics in the area of ... -
A Conceptual Model for Assessing the Value of Information Technology
(University of Waterloo, 2006)The value of an IT system can be considered from a number of different perspectives. Specifically, the same IT system can be valued differently across different stakeholders, time periods, usage environments, and other ... -
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 ... -
Constraint-Guided Machine Learning for Solving Optimal Power Flow Problem
(University of Waterloo, 2022-08-31)Due to the nonlinear and non-convex attributes of the optimization problems in power systems such as Optimal Power Flow (OPF), traditional iterative optimization algorithms require significant amount of time to converge ... -
Contextual Effects of Goals, Stimuli, Performance, and Complexity on Cognitive Decision Biases
(University of Waterloo, 2010-04-29)Existing research investigating human judgment and decision making describes patterns of systematic biases in the way people process information and make decisions. Framing effects, for example, demonstrate that logically ...