Browsing by Subject "Operations Research"
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Asymptotic Analysis and Performance-based Design of Large Scale Service and Inventory Systems
(2010)Many types of services are provided using some equipment or machines, e.g. transportation systems using vehicles. Designs of these systems require capacity decisions, e.g., the number of vehicles. In my dissertation, I use ... -
Coordination Mechanism Design for Sustainable Global Supply Networks
(2011)This dissertation studies coordination mechanism design for sustainable supply networks in a globalized environment, with the goal of achieving long-term profitability, environmental friendliness and social responsibility. ... -
Generalized and Scalable Optimal Sparse Decision Trees
(2020)Decision tree optimization is notoriously difficult from a computational perspective but essential for the field of interpretable machine learning. Despite efforts over the past 40 years, only recently have optimization ... -
On Absolute Continuity for Stochastic Partial Differential Equations and an Averaging Principle for a Queueing Network
(2010)The connection between elliptic stochastic diffusion processes and partial differential equations is rich and well understood. This connection is not very well understood when the stochastic differential equation takes values ...
