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Title
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CUSTOMER ATTRITION MODELING AND FORECASTING
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Author
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Xu, Zehan
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Date Created
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2019
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Subjects--Topical
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Statistics
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Description
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Customer relationship management has shown its critical role in the success of a company in today’s increasingly competitive service industry. While modern machine learning techniques are widely adopted due to their advantages in working with exte...
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Title
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DAILY LOAD FORECASTING WITH HOURLY TEMPERATURES
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Author
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Shukla, Shreyashi
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Date Created
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2018
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Subjects--Topical
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Engineering
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Description
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Load forecasting at the daily resolution is generally performed by aggregating the predicted hourly load. Long-term daily load forecasting is essential for resource planning in the power system and price evaluation of energy contracts. Short-term ...
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DESIGN OF LEAN SIX SIGMA SIMULATION GAMES FOR ONLINE LEARNING
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Author
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Kottayil, Arun
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Date Created
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2014
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Subjects--Topical
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Industrial engineering, System theory
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Description
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While simulation games are widely applied in a face-to-face classroom setting, there is a lack of adequate collection of simulation games for online learning. Hence, the purpose of this research is two-fold: 1) to identify the gap for Lean Six Sig...
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DRONE ROUTING FOR DAMAGE ASSESSMENT ON POWER DISTRIBUTION SYSTEMS UNDER HILF EVENTS
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Author
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Alapati, Mahesh
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Date Created
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2018
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Subjects--Topical
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Engineering, Power resources, Operations research
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Description
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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...
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Title
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Forecasting Most Valuable Players of the National Basketball Association
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Author
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McCorey, Jordan
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Date Created
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2021
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Subjects--Topical
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Engineering, Industrial engineering
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Description
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This thesis aims at developing models that would accurately forecast the Most Valuable Player (MVP) of the National Basketball Association (NBA). R programming language was used in this study to implement different techniques, such as Artificial N...
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Title
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GROUPING CALENDAR VARIABLES FOR ELECTRIC LOAD FORECASTING
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Author
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Sangamwar, Saurabh
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Date Created
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2019
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Subjects--Topical
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Power resources
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Description
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Human activities are important driving factor of electricity consumption. Human activities can be captured by calendar information. This research uses the hour of a day, days of a week, month of a year and 24 solar terms as calendar variables to c...
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HOW DOES RELATIVE HUMIDITY AFFECT ELECTRICITY DEMAND?
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Author
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Chen, Ying
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Date Created
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2015
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Subjects--Topical
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Power resources
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Description
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Weather is a key driving factor of electricity demand. Among all the weather variables included in load forecasting models over the past half a century, temperature is the most commonly used one. Although humidity has also been discussed in the lo...
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Title
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Improving glaucoma management and compliance using a Lean Six Sigma approach
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Author
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Ficatier, Johanna
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Date Created
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2015
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Subjects--Topical
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Engineering
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Description
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Compliance to the treatment is a major factor in the evolution of glaucoma. The purpose of this study is to identify the factors that result in non-compliance to glaucoma treatment. More specifically, a Lean Six Sigma DMAIC (Define, Measure, Analy...
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MULTI-CRITERIA ANALYSIS FOR THE DEVELOPMENT OF ONLINE SIMULATION GAMES IN LEAN SIX SIGMA
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Author
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KRISHNAKUMAR, SANDEEP
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Date Created
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2015
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Subjects--Topical
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Engineering, Education, Adult education
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Description
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While online learning practices have been increasing over the past few decades due to its time and location flexibility, there has been some criticism of its lack of student engagement and involvement in comparison to the face-to-face or tradition...
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Title
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Management of distancing and adjacency specifications in facility layout problems
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Author
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Alaimo, Richard
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Date Created
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2022
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Subjects--Topical
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Industrial engineering
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Description
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Facility layout planning is an intriguing and challenging problem that can be addressed from several perspectives, namely from an operational excellence point of view or in consideration of the well-being of occupants and their relative experience...
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Optimal Weather Station Selection for Electric Load Forecasting
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Author
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Li, Yike
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Date Created
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2020
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Subjects--Topical
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Power resources
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Description
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Weather factors are playing key impacts on electricity load consumption. The proper selection of weather stations will contribute to the final electric load forecasting accuracy. How to efficiently select the stations among a good number of candid...
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Overlap Packing Optimization for Spacecraft Layout Design
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Author
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Alaimo, Richard
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Date Created
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2018
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Subjects--Topical
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Industrial engineering, Operations research
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Description
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Packing optimization is a common problem that is encountered on a day-to-day basis and has led to an extensive study over the years. One variant of the packing problem that is beginning to emerge is the overlap cuboid packing problem (OCPP), which...
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Title
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Probabilistic Electric Load Forecasting
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Author
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XIE, JINGRUI
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Date Created
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2016
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Subjects--Topical
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Power resources
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Description
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Traditionally, utilities have been conservative regarding the infrastructure upgrade. This makes electric load forecasts critical for guiding electric utilities’ operation, planning, and maintenance decision-making. For a long while, utilities hav...