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Role of Category Structure in Human Information Processing
(University of Waterloo, 2007-01-19)This investigation will use this ability in a different way. Studies have shown that a category can create a grade structure of prototypical items. We will take a graded structure generated by a category, and see if we can ... -
The Role of Impression Management in Goal Setting
(University of Waterloo, 2006)This paper examines the effect of impression management on goal level and commitment to the goal. Participants involved in a goal-setting program in the United States were asked to complete a web survey regarding their ... -
A Semidefinite Programming Model for the Facility Layout Problem
(University of Waterloo, 2010-08-30)The continuous facility layout problem consists of arranging a set of facilities so that no pair overlaps and the total sum of the pairwise connection costs (proportional to the center-to-center rectilinear distance) is ... -
Sequential Decision Making Schemes in Inventory and Transportation Environments
(University of Waterloo, 2013-01-10)Many mathematical models exist for the simultaneous optimization of transportation and inventory functions. A simultaneous model, while giving the lowest total cost, may not be easily implemented in a firm with decentralized ... -
Service System Design with Immobile Servers, Stochastic Demand and Economies of Scale
(University of Waterloo, 2015-05-26)The service system design problem seeks to locate facilities, determine their capacity, and assign customers to them in order to improve the service quality and the customers' experience while minimizing the capacity ... -
Shared Community Energy Storage Allocation and Optimization
(University of Waterloo, 2019-05-13)Distributed Energy Resources (DERs) have been playing an increasingly important role for managing households energy costs. DERs consist primarily of energy generation and storage systems utilized by individual households ... -
Shipment Consolidation in Discrete Time and Discrete Quantity: Matrix-Analytic Methods
(University of Waterloo, 2011-08-30)Shipment consolidation is a logistics strategy whereby many small shipments are combined into a few larger loads. The economies of scale achieved by shipment consolidation help in reducing the transportation costs and ... -
Shipment consolidation with two demand classes: Rationing the dispatch capacity
(Elsevier, 2018-10-01)We analyze the problem faced by a logistics provider that dispatches shipment orders (parcels or larger packages) of two order classes, viz. expedited and regular. Shipment orders arrive according to a compound Poisson ... -
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 ... -
Should you clean your solar panels now?
(University of Waterloo, 2014-07-29)Photovoltaic (PV) applications worldwide are being increasingly deployed; however, the performance of PV systems is greatly affected by external factors, such as weather, environment, and terrain. These factors can form ... -
A Simulation Analysis of an Emergency Department Fast Track System
(University of Waterloo, 2011-01-10)The basis for this thesis involved a four month Accelerate Canada internship at the Grand River Hospital Emergency Department in Kitchener, Ontario. The Emergency Department (ED) Process Committee sought insight into ... -
Simulation-Optimization Framework for Synthesis and Design of Natural Gas Downstream Utilization Networks
(MDPI, 2018-02-01)Many potential diversification and conversion options are available for utilization of natural gas resources, and several design configurations and technology choices exist for conversion of natural gas to value-added ... -
Social Media Influencers- A Review of Operations Management Literature
(University of Waterloo, 2023-08-29)This literature review provides a comprehensive survey of research on Social Media Influencers (SMIs) across the fields of SMIs in marketing, seeding strategies, influence maximization and applications of SMIs in society. ... -
Social media mining to investigate the impacts of the COVID-19 pandemic
(University of Waterloo, 2022-08-16)The COVID-19 pandemic created a global crisis with devastating social and economic impacts. Firstly, public health measures for COVID-19, such as social distancing affected how we work and study. Secondly, this crisis ... -
A Social Network Analysis of Corporate Venture Capital Syndication
(University of Waterloo, 2004)The importance of social capital can be characterized by a well-known quote: "it's not just what you know, but whom you know". Firms with rich social capital are more informed, more capable, and more competitive, because ... -
Some Problems in One-Operator Scheduling
(University of Waterloo, 1999)A flexible workforce or a versatile machine is employed to perform various types of operations. Often these resources are associated with setups. Whenever a worker or machine switches from processing one type of operation ... -
Spatial Analysis of Single Allocation Hub Location Problems
(Springer, 2016-12-01)Hubs are special facilities that serve as switching, transshipment and sorting nodes in many-to-many distribution systems. Flow is consolidated at hubs to exploit economies of scale and to reduce transportation costs between ... -
Staff Scheduling During a Pandemic
(University of Waterloo, 2021-09-30)The year 2019 revealed that some of the policies which have shaped the core structure of many organizations in different industries for a long time, could result in an absolute failure in an unprecedented crisis like the ... -
A Statistical Assessment of a Process To Evaluate the Commercial Success Of Inventions
(University of Waterloo, 2001)In over twenty years of operations the Canadian Innovation Centre has evaluated, through its Inventor's Assistance Program (IAP), the commercial potential of over 12,000 early stage inventions. Prior to 1989, the Canadian ... -
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 ...