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Intuitive judgment and building initial trust in online vendors
(University of Waterloo, 2012-01-24)The importance of trust in Electronic Commerce (EC) has been addressed for about two decades and various theories have been applied to investigate the issue. In spite of a consensus among researchers of trust in a website ... -
Inventory and Service Optimization for Self-serve Kiosks
(University of Waterloo, 2021-05-20)In the retail industry, labor costs constitute a big chunk of total operating costs and retailers are advancing towards process automation to minimize their operating costs and to provide reliable services to their customers. ... -
Inventory Decisions for the Price Setting Retailer: Extensions to the EOQ Setting
(University of Waterloo, 2011-08-31)Practical inventory settings often include multiple generations of the same product on hand. New products often arrive before old stock is exhausted, but most inventory models do not account for this. Such a setting gives ... -
An Inventory Routing Problem with Cross-Docking
(University of Waterloo, 2014-08-22)This thesis concerns inventory-transportation tradeoffs in which a number of suppliers serve multiple customers, each ordering several product types. The goal is to design optimal routes to satisfy the customers’ demands. ... -
Inventory-Location Problems for Spare Parts with Time-Based Service Constraints
(University of Waterloo, 2014-01-23)This thesis studies an inventory-location problem faced by a large manufacturer and supplier of small to medium sized aircraft and their spare parts. The sale of after market spare parts is a major source of revenue for ... -
Investigating Game Mechanics that Target Players' Self-Control While Maintaining Engagement
(ACM, 2018-10-23)Whenever someone chooses to study instead of going to a party, or forgo dessert after dinner, that person is exercising self-control. Self-control is essential for achieving long-term goals, but isn't easy. Games present ... -
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 ... -
Investigating the Location Pattern of Information and Communication Technology Firms: Case of Vancouver
(University of Waterloo, 2012-01-24)Despite the volume of literature examining the role of producer amenities (e.g., highways and airports) in firms’ selection of a location, almost no quantitative studies regard the impact of consumer amenities (e.g., ... -
An Investigation of Basic Probability Operations Using AND and OR Operations
(University of Waterloo, 2007-05-23)The purpose of this thesis was to observe people’s abilities to compute probability problems at a fundamental level. The problems in this study were presented in an abstract format to ensure non-ambiguity in its interpretation. ... -
An Investment Decision under the Clean Development Mechanism: A Real Options Approach
(University of Waterloo, 2009-09-08)One of the main challenges that investors in the Clean Development Mechanism (CDM) project face is the management of the volatility of the price of Certified Emission Reduction (CERs). Large scale CDM projects require a ... -
"It felt like I was part of the data": Comparing Mouse, Touch, and Physical Interaction with Visualizations
(University of Waterloo, 2020-08-28)With my two exploratory studies I contribute a deeper understanding of the different experiences people have when manipulating data representations using mouse, touch, and physical interaction. To uncover experiences rather ... -
Job description mining to understand undergraduate co-operative placements
(University of Waterloo, 2017-09-05)Co-operative education has become popular worldwide. In this thesis, we use a text mining methodology to analyze over 17,000 co-op job postings in order to understand the co-op market in a large post-secondary institution. ... -
The Joint Strike Fighter / F-35 Program: A Canadian Technology Policy Perspective
(Air University Press, 2014-03)The Canadian F-35 procurement represents the largest peacetime acquisition of new aircraft for Canadian forces since the Korean War. Securing industrial benefits from military procurement is essential for advanced ... -
Juicy Haptic Design: Vibrotactile Embellishments Can Improve Player Experience in Games
(ACM, 2021-05)Game designers and researchers employ a sophisticated language for producing great player experiences with concepts such as juici- ness, which refers to excessive positive feedback. However, much of their discourse excludes ... -
A Knowledge Perspective of Strategic Alliances and Management of Biopharmaceutical Innovation: Evolving Research Paradigms
(University of Waterloo, 2008-01-08)Information from the Human Genome Project is being integrated into the drug discovery and development process to permit novel drug targets to be identified, clinical trial testing to be made more efficient, and efficacious ... -
A Lagrangean Relaxation and A Heuristic for the Pooling Problem
(University of Waterloo, 2008-01-25)The pooling problem is one of the fundamental optimization problems encountered in the petroleum industry. In the pooling problem, final products are produced using two stages of blending operations. In the first stage, ... -
A Lagrangian Approach for The Airfreight Consolidation Problem Under Pivot-weight
(University of Waterloo, 2018-05-23)International airfreight forwarders are faced with the problem of consolidating ship- ments for efficient transportation by airline carriers. The use of standard unit loading devices (ULDs) is a solution adopted by the ... -
A Lagrangian Relaxation Approach to a Two-Stage Stochastic Facility Location Problem with Second-Stage Activation Cost
(University of Waterloo, 2012-05-18)We study a two-stage stochastic facility location problem in the context of disaster response network design. The uncertainty inherent in disaster occurrence and impact is captured by defining scenarios to reflect a large ... -
Learning Trustworthy Web Sources to Derive Correct Answers and Reduce Health Misinformation in Search
(ACM, 2022-07)When searching the web for answers to health questions, people can make incorrect decisions that have a negative effect on their lives if the search results contain misinformation. To reduce health misinformation in search ... -
Localization and Counting of Indoor Populations on a University Campus using Wi-Fi Connection Logs and Floor Plans
(University of Waterloo, 2023-04-17)The localization and counting of persons in indoor spaces is an area of extensive research. Indoor population metrics can inform energy conservation, health and safety, security, resource optimization, and location-aware ...