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PPE Distribution Planning and Capacity Acquisition During the COVID-19 Pandemic
(University of Waterloo, 2021-09-27)The COVID-19 pandemic caused disruptions to global supply chains and the uncer- tainty surrounding its progression has created challenges in distributing critical supplies such as personal protective equipment (PPE). We ... -
Pricing Strategy of eBooks in a Two-Sided Market under the Threat of Piracy
(University of Waterloo, 2014-08-07)This thesis analyzes the effect of piracy on the price of eBook when the publisher uses the market platform for the sale of eBook. Under the traditional sales mechanism, called “resale model”, the market platform or an ... -
Pricing Virtual Goods: Using Intervention Analysis and Products’ Usage Data
(University of Waterloo, 2014-05-13)The rapid growth of online games enables firms to charge players for virtual goods they sell for use within their online game environments. Determining prices for such virtual goods is inherently challenging due to the ... -
Pricing, greening, and transparency decisions considering the impact of government subsidies and CSR behavior in supply chain decisions
(Elsevier, 2021-05-01)In this paper, we analytically model different government subsidy strategies in a supply chain manufacturing and selling a green product. We model the interaction between greening degree and transparency level set by a ... -
Proactive inventory policy intervention to mitigate supply chain disruptions
(University of Waterloo, 2011-08-02)Risk management is one of the critical issues in supply chain management. Supply chain disruptions negatively impact on the performance and the business continuity of a firm, and the disruptions should be managed proactively ... -
The Process of Communication between People with Categorical Knowledge: An Exploratory Study
(University of Waterloo, 2009-09-30)This thesis investigates the process of communication between a person who has in-depth and technical knowledge about certain items and a person who has very broad and non-technical knowledge. For example, a doctor has ... -
Product Differentiation and Operations Strategy for Price and Time Sensitive Markets
(University of Waterloo, 2009-04-29)In this dissertation, we study the interplay between a firm’s operations strategy, with regard to its capacity management, and its marketing decision of product differentiation. For this, we study a market comprising ... -
Profit Maximizing Hub Location Problems
(Elsevier, 2019-07-01)In this paper, we study profit maximizing hub location problems. We formulate mathematical models determining the location of hubs, designing the hub networks, and routing the demand in order to maximize profit. The profit ... -
Project Management: A Socio-Technical Perspective
(University of Waterloo, 2011-02-22)This dissertation presents a study on project management and its effectiveness in a multinational pharmaceutical company (MPC). A mixed qualitative-quantitative method consisting of a case study (33 managers) and a follow-up ... -
Promoting Resiliency in Emergency Communication Networks: A Network Interdiction Stylized Initial Case Study Model of a Miami-Dade County Network
(IGI Global, 2017)Police, fire, and emergency personnel rely on wireless networks to serve the public. Whether it is during a natural disaster, or just an ordinary calendar day, wireless nodes of varying types form the infrastructure that ... -
Provocations from #vanlife: Investigating Life and Work in a Community Extensively Using Technology Not Designed for Them
(ACM, 2021-05)Research on how lived experiences with technology intersect with home and work are core themes within HCI. Prior work has primarily focused on conventional life and work in Western countries. However, the unconventional ... -
A Qualitative Study of Task and Work-Social Networks
(University of Waterloo, 2013-01-25)Despite the well-recognized importance of interpersonal relationships within the work environment, there is no comprehensive approach or set of studies that provide a complete picture. As a step towards providing a complete ... -
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 ... -
A Queueing Model to Study Ambulance Offload Delays
(University of Waterloo, 2008-09-24)The ambulance offload delay problem is a well-known result of overcrowding and congestion in emergency departments. Offload delay refers to the situation where area hospitals are unable to accept patients from regional ... -
Queueing Network Models of Ambulance Offload Delays
(University of Waterloo, 2012-09-27)Although healthcare operations management has been an active and popular research direction over the past few years, there is a lack of formal quantitative models to analyze the ambulance o oad delay problem. O oad delays ... -
Radiotherapy Patient Scheduling During Pandemics
(University of Waterloo, 2022-09-26)With the Covid-19 outbreak happening worldwide, clinically vulnerable people should be of concern, as they are more likely to be exposed to the virus. Cancer patients with weak immune systems are a group of aforementioned ... -
Rapid Alignment of Resources and Capabilities in Time-bound Networks: The Case of Construction Projects in Dubai-UAE
(University of Waterloo, 2013-12-02)Researchers studying the alignment of business resources usually focus on business cases that inherently have a going-concern interaction built on long-term relationships at the firm level (e.g., Barney, 1991) dyadic level ... -
Real Options and Asset Valuation in Competitive Energy Markets
(University of Waterloo, 2007-12-07)The deregulation of energy markets around the world, including power markets has changed the way operating assets in these markets are managed. Independent power asset owners and even utilities operating in these markets ... -
Recent advances in location analysis
(Elsevier, 2015-10-01)Introduction to a special issue of Computers & Operations Research dedicated to recent advances in location analysis. -
Reducing Conservatism in Pareto Robust Optimization
(University of Waterloo, 2022-06-09)Robust optimization (RO) is a sub-field of optimization theory with set-based uncertainty. A criticism of this field is that it determines optimal decisions for only the worst-case realizations of uncertainty. Several ...