School of Industrial and Systems Engineering Theses and Dissertations
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Resilient capacity planning
(Georgia Institute of Technology, 2021-01-25)We envision the next generation supply chain to be an efficient, resilient, and cybersecure system for the movement of goods, data, and money. An emerging design of the next generation supply chain is reconfigurable supply ... -
Health Analytics for Decision Making in Healthcare Spatial Access
(Georgia Institute of Technology, 2021-01-14)Appropriate access to healthcare services is important for preventing the spread of disease, reducing hospitalizations and emergency department use, and increasing quality of life. However, within the United States healthcare ... -
Topics on Multiresolution Signal Processing and Bayesian Modeling with Applications in Bioinformatics
(Georgia Institute of Technology, 2021-01-14)Analysis of multi-resolution signals and time-series data has wide applications in biology, medicine, engineering, etc. In many cases, the large-scale (low-frequency) features of a signal including basic descriptive ... -
The War Room Effects Model (WREM): A Parametric Model for the Optimization of Organizationally Supported Decision Making According to the Personality of Decision Makers
(Georgia Institute of Technology, 2020-04-07)The War Room Effects Model (WREM): A Parametric Model for the Optimization of Organizationally Supported Decision Making According to the Personality of Decision Makers James F. Dickens 250 Pages Directed by Dr. David ... -
Statistics, Computation & Applications
(Georgia Institute of Technology, 2020-04-03)When statistics meets real applications, the computational aspect of the statistical methods becomes critical. In this dissertation, I try to improve the computational efficiency of some statistical methods, so that they ... -
Service Network Design for Parcel Trucking
(Georgia Institute of Technology, 2021-05-06)We develop a large-scale package express service network design methods using integer programming optimization models specified on flat network models that capture important timing constraints to ensure that package flows ... -
Frank-Wolfe Methods for Optimization and Machine Learning
(Georgia Institute of Technology, 2021-05-01)In Chapter 2, we present the Frank-Wolfe algorithm (FW) and all necessary background material. We explain the projection-free and sparsity properties of the algorithm, provide motivation for real-world problems, and analyze ... -
Hyperconnected Fresh Supply Chains: Logistics & Market Expansion Frameworks
(Georgia Institute of Technology, 2021-05-03)This thesis contributes novel frameworks that utilize transdisciplinary approaches to Fresh Supply Chain and Logistics Problems via Operations Research, GIS and Strategic Management. These fresh supply chain frameworks ... -
Hyperconnected fulfillment and inventory allocation and deployment models
(Georgia Institute of Technology, 2021-05-01)Consumption patterns have been changed dramatically over the past decades, notably by the growth of e-commerce. With the prevalence of e-commerce and home delivery, customer expectations for a faster, punctual, and cheap ... -
Pricing and Revenue Management in Supply Chain Networks and Service Systems
(Georgia Institute of Technology, 2021-05-01)This thesis comprises four topics focusing on pricing and revenue management, a powerful technique to enhance firm profitability through demand and supply management. Because of its efficacy, it has been adopted by small ... -
Privacy-preserving Statistical Tools: Differential Privacy and Beyond
(Georgia Institute of Technology, 2021-05-01)Differential privacy has emerged as the de facto gold standard in protecting the privacy of individuals when processing sensitive data, because of its powerful formal guarantees. Several companies, including Google, Apple, ... -
Reducing Human Labor Cost in Deep Learning for Natural Language Processing
(Georgia Institute of Technology, 2021-05-01)Deep learning has fundamentally changed the landscape of natural language processing (NLP). The success of deep learning techniques relies on huge amounts of manually labeled data in many applications. However, large ... -
Hypothesis Test for Manifolds and Networks
(Georgia Institute of Technology, 2021-04-29)Statistical inference of high-dimensional data is crucial for science and engineering. Such high-dimensional data are often structured. For example, they can be data from a certain manifold or a large network. Motivated ... -
Theoretical Analysis of Stochastic Gradient Descent in Stochastic Optimization
(Georgia Institute of Technology, 2021-04-29)Stochastic Gradient Descent (SGD) type algorithms have been widely applied to many stochastic optimization problems, such as machine learning. Despite its empirical success, there is still a lack of theoretical understanding ... -
New progress in hot-spots detection, partial-differential-equation-based model identification and statistical computation
(Georgia Institute of Technology, 2021-04-19)This thesis discusses the new progress in (1) hot-spots detection in spatial-temporal data, (2) partial-differential-equation-based (PDE-based) model identification, and (3) optimization in the Least Absolute Shrinkage and ... -
Accelerated Inexact First-Order Methods for Solving Nonconvex Composite Optimization Problems
(Georgia Institute of Technology, 2021-04-08)This thesis focuses on developing and analyzing accelerated and inexact first-order methods for solving or finding stationary points of various nonconvex composite optimization (NCO) problems. Our main tools mainly come ... -
Approximation Algorithms for Mixed Integer Non-Linear Optimization Problems
(Georgia Institute of Technology, 2021-04-13)Mixed integer non-linear optimization (MINLO) problems are usually NP-hard. Although obtaining feasible solutions is relatively easy via heuristic or local search methods, it is still challenging to guarantee the quality ... -
USING WIFI MOBILITY DATA FOR MODELING COVID-19 ON UNIVERSITY CAMPUSES
(Georgia Institute of Technology, 2021-05-05)Infectious diseases, like mumps, flu, or measles, can cause devastating impacts on universities. To protect the community's health, schools must learn how to operate during epidemics. In the light of Covid-19, for instance, ... -
Advanced process control in manufacturing process with high dimensional measurements
(Georgia Institute of Technology, 2021-05-21)Automatic feedback or feedforward control has been widely used in manufacturing systems to reduce process variability and ensure on-target product quality. In this thesis, the methodologies of automatic control are further ... -
Operational and Tactical Strategies for Managing Service Networks
(Georgia Institute of Technology, 2020-12-06)This thesis focuses on two independent aspects of service network planning. The first aspect is operational and is related to load plan adjustment in Less-Than-Truckload (LTL) freight networks. The second one is both ...
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