School of Industrial and Systems Engineering Theses and Dissertations
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Predictive Demand Response Modeling for Logistic Systems Innovation and Optimization
(Georgia Institute of Technology, 2022-12-13)In the ever-increasing dynamics of global business markets, logistic systems must optimize the usage of all possible sources to continually innovate. Scenario-based demand prediction plays an important role in the effective ... -
Risk neutral and risk averse stochastic optimization
(Georgia Institute of Technology, 2022-12-07)In this thesis, we focus on the modeling, computational methods and applications of multistage/single-stage stochastic optimization, which entail risk aversion under certain circumstances. Chapters 2-4 concentrate on ... -
Statistical viewpoints on network model, PDE Identification, low-rank matrix estimation and deep learning
(Georgia Institute of Technology, 2022-12-01)The phenomenal advancements in modern computational infrastructure enable the massive amounts of data acquisition in high-dimensional feature space possible. To put it more specific, the largest datasets available in the ... -
Real-Time Idle Vehicle Relocation and Dynamic Pricing in Centralized Ride-Hailing Systems
(Georgia Institute of Technology, 2022-08-18)Dynamic pricing and idle vehicle relocation are important tools for addressing demand-supply imbalance that frequently arises in the ride-hailing markets. Although interrelated, pricing and relocation have largely been ... -
Distribution-free statistical process control and Bayesian feasibility determination
(Georgia Institute of Technology, 2022-08-26)This thesis consists of three main parts. The first two parts focus on multivariate time-series monitoring that commonly arises in the quality control problems, and the third part considers the feasibility determination ... -
Healthcare data analytics for social good
(Georgia Institute of Technology, 2021-10-25)Healthcare problems, ranging from soaring medical costs to the COVID-19 pandemic, present major challenges to our society. Better solutions to these problems can potentially improve the lives and livelihood of tens of ... -
Data-Driven Design of On-Demand Multimodal Transit Systems
(Georgia Institute of Technology, 2022-12-15)Across the United States, public transit agencies are facing trends of decreasing ridership. Especially during and since the COVID-19 pandemic, reduced ridership caused many agencies to have significant budget deficits due ... -
Operating On-Demand Ride-Sharing Services
(Georgia Institute of Technology, 2022-08-01)Public transit agencies are increasingly exploring mobility options to supplement their traditional rail, bus, and streetcar offerings. One such option is demand-responsive transport (DRT), “any non-fixed route system of ... -
Greedy Approaches for Large-Scale Flow and Load Planning
(Georgia Institute of Technology, 2022-08-01)The flow and load planning problem is to determine freight flows through a network and to schedule containerized dispatches to accommodate these flows. The problem is perhaps the core decision problem faced by parcel express ... -
DEEP LEARNING IN BIOMEDICAL INFORMATICS AND MODERN CIRCUIT DESIGN
(Georgia Institute of Technology, 2022-08-01)Deep learning has grown extensively in recent years. The application of deep learning in many fields has improved substantially the performance in computer vision, speech recognition and natural language processing. In my ... -
UNCERTAINTY MITIGATION IN IMAGE-BASED MACHINE LEARNING MODELS FOR PRECISION MEDICINE
(Georgia Institute of Technology, 2022-07-29)Machine learning (ML) algorithms have been developed to build predictive models in medicine and healthcare. In most cases, the performance of ML models/algorithms is measured by predictive accuracy or accuracy-related ... -
On Multistage Stochastic and Distributionally Robust Optimization: New Algorithms, Complexity Analysis, and Performance Comparison
(Georgia Institute of Technology, 2022-07-26)Multistage optimization under uncertainty refers to sequential decision-making with the presence of uncertainty information that is revealed partially until the end of planning horizon. Depending on the uncertainty model, ... -
To Drink or Not TO Drink: Clinically relevant models of alcohol consumption and liver disease to Inform Dynamic and Interpretable Community Alcohol Policy
(Georgia Institute of Technology, 2022-08-01)Alcohol-attributable liver disease rates have been on the rise globally and in the United States over the past two decades. Each disease event in the general population carries a significant cost for the individual, their ... -
Topics in Packing and Scheduling
(Georgia Institute of Technology, 2022-07-21)Packing and scheduling models include some of the most fundamental problems in operations research and computer science. These broad classes include a wide range of models with applications including logistics, production ... -
Novel Analysis of the Branch-and-Bound Method for Integer Programming
(Georgia Institute of Technology, 2022-07-28)Mixed-integer linear programming (MILP) has become a pillar of operational decision making and optimization, with large-scale economic and societal impact. MILP solvers drive multi-billion dollar industries and the operation ... -
Topics in Mixed Integer Nonlinear Optimization
(Georgia Institute of Technology, 2022-07-20)Mixed integer nonlinear optimization has many applications ranging from machine learning to power systems. However, these problems are very challenging to solve to global optimality due to the inherent non-convexity. This ... -
Coordinated Resource Allocation
(Georgia Institute of Technology, 2022-07-06)The efficient allocation and scheduling of scarce resources with the objective of minimizing total costs or maximizing total return is an important problem that arises in many diverse applications. In some instances, demands ... -
Representation and statistical properties of deep neural networks on structured data
(Georgia Institute of Technology, 2022-07-20)Significant success of deep learning has brought unprecedented challenges to conventional wisdom in statistics, optimization, and applied mathematics. In many high-dimensional applications, e.g., image data of hundreds of ... -
Planning the Operations of Parcel Express Shipment Service
(Georgia Institute of Technology, 2022-07-07)Package delivery represents a significant part of the transportation industry. A critical aspect of package delivery is timely service, which is driven, in part, by the growth of e-commerce, which relies heavily on fast ... -
New benchmarking techniques in resource allocation problems: theory and applications in cloud systems
(Georgia Institute of Technology, 2022-05-16)Motivated by different e-commerce applications such as allocating virtual machines to servers and online ad placement, we study new models that aim to capture unstudied tensions faced by decision-makers. In online/sequential ...