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Title: COMPETITIVE STORE CLOSING DURING AN ECONOMIC DOWNTURN: A MATHEMATICAL PROGRAMMING APPROACH
Author: Mayadunne, Sanjaya
Date Created: 2014
Subjects--Topical: Operations research
Description: A game theoretic mixed integer program model is introduced to determine optimal store closing decisions in a competitive market. The model considers the case of two rival firms seeking to downsize operations in a region. Both firms are looking to ...

Title: Continue, quit, restart probability model and related problems
Author: Steinberg, Constantine
Date Created: 2011
Subjects--Topical: Operations research, Mathematics
Description: We discuss a new class of applied probability models. There is a system whose evolution is described by a Markov chain with known transition matrix in a discrete state space. At each moment of a discrete time a decision maker can apply one of thre...

Title: DEVELOPING AND VALIDATING JOINT DYNAMIC AMBULANCE RELOCATION AND FLEXIBLE DISPATCHING STRATEGIES: A SIMULATION-OPTIMIZATION APPROACH
Author: Li, Xun
Date Created: 2014
Subjects--Topical: Operations research, Information technology, Business
Description: Emergency Medical Services (EMS) system's mission is to provide timely and effective treatment to anyone in need of urgent medical care throughout their jurisdiction. The main goal of most EMS deployment is to reduce mortality, disability, pain an...

Title: DIGITAL PIRACY: AN ASSESSMENT OF CONSUMER PIRACY RISK AND OPTIMAL SUPPLY CHAIN COORDINATION STRATEGIES
Author: Jeong, Bong
Date Created: 2010
Subjects--Topical: Operations research, Information technology
Description: Digital piracy and the emergence of new distribution channels have changed the dynamics of supply chain coordination and created many interesting problems. There has been increased attention to understanding the phenomenon of consumer piracy behav...

Title: DRONE ROUTING FOR DAMAGE ASSESSMENT ON POWER DISTRIBUTION SYSTEMS UNDER HILF EVENTS
Author: Alapati, Mahesh
Date Created: 2018
Subjects--Topical: Engineering, Power resources, Operations research
Description: Significant damages caused by extreme weather conditions such as flood, storm, hurricanes, blizzards etc., contribute multiple and widely-spread damages to electric power transmission and distribution systems resulting in large-scale power failure...

Title: Disruptions in Supply Chain: An Agent-Based Model Simulation To Measure Resiliency and Performance During Disasters
Author: Brewer, Laura
Date Created: 2023
Subjects--Topical: Industrial management, Operations research
Description: Supply chain disruptions have been a major concern in businesses and society. Our goal is to study these disruptions and analyze ways to mitigate their effects. To do so, we propose an agent-based model simulation. In our model, we consider the fo...

Title: Emergency Medical Services Demand Forecasting: Modern Machine Learning Approaches For Producing Short-Term Spatiotemporal Estimations
Author: Martin, Richard
Date Created: 2019
Subjects--Topical: Operations research, Information technology
Description: Emergency medical services (EMS); commonly referred to as ambulance, paramedic or pre-hospital emergency services, are a critical component in the delivery of urgent medical care to communities. EMS agencies, the organizations responsible for prov...

Title: Manpower and Efficiency Study of the Manns Harbor Shipyard through Data Envelopment Analysis
Author: Morgan, Tyler
Date Created: 2018
Subjects--Topical: Management, Operations research
Description: The NCDOT Ferry Division (NCDOT-FD) self-performs preventative maintenance, emergency maintenance, and scheduled overhauls on a continual basis with manpower staffing to support the North Carolina Ferry Service’s (NCFS) ability to continue to oper...

Title: Modeling and Optimization of Demand-Side and Supply-Side Energy Management in Electricity Markets
Author: Vatani, Behdad
Date Created: 2018
Subjects--Topical: Electrical engineering, Power resources, Operations research
Description: An energy management system (EMS) is a system designed for owners of generation companies (GenCos), operators of electricity markets and electric utility grids, as well as consumers and aggregators to monitor, control, and optimize the performance...

Title: OPTIMAL STRATEGIES IN "LOCKS, BOMBS AND TESTING" (LBT) PROBLEM FOR THE CASE OF INDEPENDENT PROTECTION
Author: Liu, Li
Date Created: 2019
Subjects--Topical: Mathematics, Statistics, Operations research
Description: This thesis constructs a Defense/Attack resource allocation model. Defender uses "locks" to protect their boxes from Attacker, and Attacker uses "bombs" to destroy as many boxes as possible. The first models of such type were given by E. Borel (19...

Title: Optimal Override Policy for Chemotherapy Scheduling Template via Mixed-Integer Linear Programming
Author: Sikder, Ishtiak
Date Created: 2021
Subjects--Topical: Operations research, Health services administration
Description: Owing to treatment complexity in chemotherapy administration, nurses are usually required at the beginning, end, and at certain times during treatment to ensure high-quality infusion. It is, thus, critical for an outpatient chemotherapy unit to de...

Title: Stochastic and fuzzy flexible aggregate production planning to manage plan stability
Author: Torabzadeh, Setareh
Date Created: 2020
Subjects--Topical: Operations research
Description: Aggregate production planning generally deals with configuration of an aggregate plan in advance of 6 to 18 periods (e.g. months) to give the organizations an idea about the amount of invested money, utilized capacity, required inventory and any o...

Title: THE ROLE OF COMPLEXITY WITHIN INTELLIGENT DECISION AIDS ON USER RELIANCE: AN EXTENSION OF THE THEORY OF TECHNOLOGY DOMINANCE
Author: Williams, Bradley
Date Created: 2020
Subjects--Topical: Operations research, Information science
Description: A decision aid only works if used within the decision-making process. As computational power and data storage become more accessible across industries, reliance on intelligent decision aids, those with embedded decision-making technologies, will b...

Title: The Exploration of BIM and Visual Data for Owner Benefits
Author: Mallard, Jesse
Date Created: 2020
Subjects--Topical: Engineering, Operations research
Description: ABSTRACTJESSE M. MALLARD. Exploration of how Building Information Modeling (BIM) and visual data is used within the Architectural Engineering and Construction (AEC) Industry currently to assist in closing the knowledge gaps between Owners and Desi...