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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 ... -
The Continuous Time Service Network Design Problem
(University of Waterloo, 2015-01-15)The service network design problem (SNDP) addresses the planning of operations for freight transportation carriers. Given a set of requests to transport commodities from specific origins to specific destinations, SNDP ... -
Control Mechanisms in Queueing Systems with Nonlinear Waiting Costs
(University of Waterloo, 2017-08-14)In many queueing systems, customers have been observed to exhibit strategic behavior. Each customer gains a value when receiving a product or getting served and suffers when incurring a delay. We consider a nonlinear ... -
Coordinating the Optimal Discount Schedules of Supplier and Carrier
(University of Waterloo, 2012-04-24)Transportation is important in making supply chain decisions. With the careful consideration of transportation expenses, the performance of each supply chain member, as well as the entire supply chain, could be improved ... -
Corporate Governance and Firm Performance: Analyzing the Social Capital of Corporate Insiders
(University of Waterloo, 2013-01-15)This dissertation is concerned with how the social capital of corporate insiders is associated with the governance and performance of publicly listed small and medium- sized enterprises (SMEs) in Canada. The premise of ... -
Costly Actions, External Incentives and Prediction Markets
(University of Waterloo, 2017-08-25)Consider a prediction market of multiple rounds with a security contingent on a certain event whose final outcome is decided by the agents who also trade in the market. One such prediction market is one in which two agents, ... -
Crossdocking vs. Traditional Warehousing: Small-Sample Data Augmentation to Assess Product Suitability
(University of Waterloo, 2021-08-27)This thesis tries to address the logistics strategy selection problem in distribution centers and transportation considering two main criteria pertaining to the decision: product characteristics and customer satisfaction. ... -
Cultural Influences On Video Games: players' preferences in narrative and game-play
(University of Waterloo, 2005)As an entertainment media, video games provide pleasure and enjoyment through interactions with various game elements. Some games are more successful in one part of the world than others, which sales data have clearly ... -
Cutting-Plane Separation Strategies for Semidefinite Programming Models to Solve Single-Row Facility Layout Problems
(University of Waterloo, 2008-10-27)The single-row facility layout problem (SRFLP) is concerned with finding the optimal linear placement of n departments with different lengths in a straight line. It is typically achieved by minimizing the cost associated ... -
Data Driven Efficiency for E-Warehousing: Descriptive and Prescriptive Analytics
(University of Waterloo, 2018-05-18)Based on data provided by a warehouse logistics management company, we analyze the warehousing operation and its major processes of order picking and order consolidation. Without access to the actual layouts and process ... -
Data Envelopment Analysis may Obfuscate Corporate Financial Data: Using Support Vector Machine and Data Envelopment Analysis to Predict Corporate Failure for Nonmanufacturing Firms
(Taylor & Francis, 2017)Corporate failure prediction has drawn numerous scholars’ attention because of its usefulness in corporate risk management, as well as in regulating corporate operational status. Most research on this topic focuses on ... -
Data-Driven Analysis of Optimal Repositioning in Dockless Bike-Sharing Systems
(University of Waterloo, 2022-08-29)Bike-sharing systems provide sustainable and convenient mobility services for short-distance transportation in urban areas. The dockless or free-floating bike-sharing systems allow users to leave vehicles at any location ... -
Data-Driven Analytics to Support Scheduling of Multi-Priority Multi-Class Patients with Wait Targets
(University of Waterloo, 2016-08-09)The aim of dynamic scheduling is to efficiently assign available resources to the most suitable patients. The dynamic assignment of multi-class, multi-priority patients over time has long been a challenge, especially for ... -
Data-Driven Inverse Optimization with Applications in Electricity Markets
(University of Waterloo, 2023-01-19)Due to the increasing penetration of renewable resources and demand response instruments in the electricity markets, generation planning models have become more complex and require detailed information on the inherent ... -
Data-driven Models for Inferring the Patient Scheduling Policies via Inverse Reinforcement Learning
(University of Waterloo, 2024-01-23)In this work, we study multi-class patient scheduling with stochastic daily patient arrivals. Different classes of patients are characterized by different service times, waiting cost parameters, and rejection cost parameters. ... -
A data-driven optimization approach for mixed-case palletization and three-dimensional bin packing
(University of Waterloo, 2018-01-18)Palletization is the most standard method of packaging and transportation in the retail industry. Their building involves the solution of a three-dimensional packing problem with side practical constraints such as item ... -
Data-driven Structure Detection in Optimization: Decomposition, Hub Location, and Brain Connectivity
(University of Waterloo, 2018-07-13)Employing data-driven methods to efficiently solve practical and large optimization problems is a recent trend that focuses on identifying patterns and structures in the problem data to help with its solution. In this ... -
Decomposition of Variational Inequalities with Applications to Nash-Cournot Models in Time of Use Electricity Markets
(University of Waterloo, 2011-08-29)This thesis proposes equilibrium models to link the wholesale and retail electricity markets which allow for reconciliation of the differing time scales of responses of producers (e.g., hourly) and consumers (e.g., monthly) ... -
Deducing Requirements From Agile Software Processes
(University of Waterloo, 2014-09-24)In classical engineering practice, the elicitation of requirements is an important early project phase. Requirements help to define the project goals and scope, they serve as a basis for cost estimation, and in validated ... -
Defining Haptic Experience: Foundations for Understanding, Communicating, and Evaluating HX
(ACM, 2020-04-25)Haptic technology is maturing, with expectations and evidence that it will contribute to user experience (UX). However, we have very little understanding about how haptic technology can influence people’s experience. ...