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Motivational Differences in Aiming for Wide or Narrow Goals
(University of Waterloo, 2014-03-06)Goal setting theory has consistently found that high and specific goals lead to better performance than low and vague goals do. However, the independent effect of each of these two dimensions, difficulty and specificity, ... -
Multi-Class Advance Patient Scheduling
(University of Waterloo, 2021-09-29)The problem of advance scheduling of service appointments for patients arriving to a healthcare facility received a lot of attentions in the literature of operations management. Broadly speaking, the main goal is on the ... -
Multi-period hub network design problems with modular capacities
(Springer, 2016-11-01)In this paper, a modeling framework is proposed for multi-period hub location. The problems to be studied are extensions of classical hub location problems to the situation in which the hub network can be progressively ... -
Multidisciplinary Design Optimization of NAFTA Supply Chains
(University of Waterloo, 2008-09-01)Supply chain management is the set of tasks through which businesses acquire, process, and move raw materials and final products from suppliers through factories and distribution points to customers. The mathematical ... -
A Multistage Stochastic Mixed-Integer Model for Perishable Capacity Expansion Problem
(University of Waterloo, 2015-05-19)We study a multi-stage capacity expansion problem under demand uncertainty. We consider the problem where there are multiple resources to be expanded at each stage. Moreover, the resources have limited life time after ... -
Natural Language Generation with Neural Variational Models
(University of Waterloo, 2018-08-13)Automatic generation of text is an important topic in natural language processing with applications in tasks such as machine translation and text summarization. In this thesis, we explore the use of deep neural networks ... -
Nature vs. Stress: Investigating the Use of Biophilia in Non-Violent Exploration Games to Reduce Stress
(ACM, 2021)Games hold the potential to help many address health-related issues such as chronic stress. We investigated the use of biophilia, an affective response to nature grounded in the psychology literature, as indirect physiological ... -
Network of Affiliates and Canada-U.S. Border Effect
(University of Waterloo, 2007-09-25)The objective of this thesis is to evaluate the influence that the pattern of affiliate linkages- establishments associated with companies as affiliates, subsidiaries and divisions- between U.S. states and Canadian provinces ... -
New Benders' Decomposition Approaches for W-CDMA Telecommunication Network Design
(University of Waterloo, 2007-04-24)Network planning is an essential phase in successfully operating state-of-the-art telecommunication systems. It helps carriers increase revenues by deploying the right technologies in a cost effective manner. More importantly, ... -
New Conic Optimization Techniques for Solving Binary Polynomial Programming Problems
(University of Waterloo, 2011-08-26)Polynomial programming, a class of non-linear programming where the objective and the constraints are multivariate polynomials, has attracted the attention of many researchers in the past decade. Polynomial programming is ... -
Numerosity and Cognitive Complexity of a Medium as Moderators of Medium Effect on Effort
(University of Waterloo, 2010-09-30)As a part of loyalty programs in marketing or as incentive plans in companies, mediums have attracted considerable interest from marketing and organizational behavior researchers. Previous studies focused mainly on the ... -
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 ... -
On Ranking the Relative Importance of Nodes in Physical Distribution Networks
(University of Waterloo, 2011-05-24)Physical distribution networks are integral parts of modern supply chains. When faced with a question of which node in a network is more important, cost immediately jumps to mind. However, in a world of uncertainty, there ... -
On the Road to Making Science of “Art”: Risk Bias in Market Scoring Rules
(The Institute for Operations Research and the Management Sciences, 2018-06)We study market scoring rule (MSR) prediction markets in the presence of risk-averse or risk-seeking agents that have unknown yet bounded risk preferences. It is well known that if agents can be prescreened, then MSRs can ... -
Open Shortest Path First Routing Under Random Early Detection
(Wiley, 2018-03-01)In this article, we consider a variant of Open Shortest Path First (OSPF) routing that accounts for Random Early Detection (RED), an Active Queue Management method for backbone networks. In the version of OSPF we consider ... -
Open-Ended Problem Solving in Groups
(University of Waterloo, 2023-09-08)Previous experimental research on problem-solving has predominantly investigated well-structured problems with predefined solutions. Studies of ill-structured, open-ended problem-solving have primarily employed observational ... -
Open-Innovation in Healthcare: an analysis of motivations, learning, and program outcomes
(University of Waterloo, 2021-08-30)The goal of this study is to examine open-innovation programs run in two different healthcare settings. Open innovation is the process of engaging external sources of knowledge and capabilities in the pursuit of developing ... -
Optimal inventory decisions for a risk-averse retailer when offering layaway
(Elsevier, 2020-07-01)Layaway allows economically disadvantaged budget-constrained consumers to purchase expensive items through amortized payments and nominal program fees, as opposed to using high-interest financing options such as credit ... -
Optimal inventory decisions when offering layaway
(Taylor & Francis, 2019)This paper presents an inventory management policy for a retailer offering a layaway programme. Layaway is a service provided by retailers that allows budget constrained consumers who have sufficiently high valuations to ... -
Optimal Order Batching for Automated Warehouse Picking
(University of Waterloo, 2023-09-18)With the unexpected increase in demand and the need to minimize human interaction during the Covid-19 pandemic, companies have been forced to accelerate the transition from traditional to robotic mobile fulfillment systems. ...