School of Industrial and Systems Engineering Theses and Dissertations
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Minimum Energy Designs: Extensions, Algorithms, and Applications
(Georgia Institute of Technology, 2016-07-27)Minimum Energy Design (MED) is a recently proposed technique for generating deterministic samples from any arbitrary probability distribution. Most space-filling designs look for uniformity in the region of interest. In ... -
Optimal Admission Control in Tandem and Parallel Queueing Systems with Applications to Computer Networks
(Georgia Institute of Technology, 2016-07-25)Modern computer networks require advanced, efficient algorithms to control several aspects of their operations, including routing data packets, access to secure systems and data, capacity and resource allocation, task ... -
Robust Optimization for Renewable Energy Integration in Power System Operations
(Georgia Institute of Technology, 2016-07-20)Optimization provides critical support for the operation of electric power systems. As power systems evolve, enhanced operational methodologies are required, and innovative optimization models have the potential to support ... -
Efficient Computation in Stochastic Optimization and Simulation: Dynamic Programs, Risk Quantification, and Risk Optimization
(Georgia Institute of Technology, 2016-07-26)Stochastic optimization and simulation are two of the most fundamental research areas in Operations Research. In this thesis, we develop efficient computational approaches for three important topics in the realm of stochastic ... -
Global Optimization Methods for Optimal Power Flow and Transmission Switching Problems in Electric Power Systems
(Georgia Institute of Technology, 2016-07-19)Power engineering is concerned with the generation, transmission, and distribution of electricity over electric power network, which is arguably one of the largest engineering systems in the world. The size of electric ... -
On Spare Parts Supply Chains with Forward Stocking Location Recourse
(Georgia Institute of Technology, 2016-05-13)This thesis investigates how a service provider responsible for completing repairs of durable goods deployed throughout a region can improve profitability by reconfiguring its existing supply chain. This supply chain stocks ... -
Modeling and Solution of Some Multi-Period Supply Chain Optimization Problems
(Georgia Institute of Technology, 2016-05-23)This thesis consists of three parts, each of which contributes to an independent topic in the broad area of multi-period supply chain optimization, and provides modeling and solution approaches for the problem in concern. Part ... -
Non-decimated Wavelet Transform in Statistical Assessment of Scaling: Theory and Applications
(Georgia Institute of Technology, 2016-05-13)In this thesis, we introduced four novel methods that facilitate the scaling estimation based on NDWT. Chapter 2 introduced an NDWT matrix which is used to perform an NDWT in one or two dimensions. The use of matrix ... -
Designs For Computer Experiments and Uncertainty Quantification
(Georgia Institute of Technology, 2016-05-18)Computer experiments are widely-used in analysis of real systems where physical experiments are infeasible or unaffordable. Computer models are usually complex and computationally demanding, consequently, time consuming ... -
Shrinkage in Quickest Change Detection, Multichannel Profile Monitoring, and Uncertainty Quantification
(Georgia Institute of Technology, 2016-05-10)In the information age, many real-world applications such as biosurveillance, manufacturing systems, physical and computer experiments often involve data that are massive, high-dimension or have complicated structures. In ... -
Track layout accommodating dynamic routing in automated material handling systems
(Georgia Institute of Technology, 2016-05-10)Modern semiconductor fabrication facilities depend on automated material handling systems (AMHSs) to manage the processes and variations in time required to produce advanced semiconductor products. Unified AMHSs, which ... -
Optimal Control of Queueing Systems with Non-Collaborating Servers
(Georgia Institute of Technology, 2015-07-24)This dissertation focuses on effective management of cross-trained workforce in manufacturing and service systems. In particular, non-collaborative queueing networks with cross-trained (flexible) servers are analyzed. For ... -
Information Relaxation in Stochastic Optimal Control
(Georgia Institute of Technology, 2015-07-24)Dynamic programming is a principal method for analyzing stochastic optimal control problems. However, the exact computation of dynamic programming can be intractable in large-scale problems due to the "curse of dimensionality". ... -
Some results in high-dimensional statistics
(Georgia Institute of Technology, 2015-05-13)High-dimensional statistics is one of the most active research topics in modern statistics. It also has applications in many fields, such as computer science, biology and economics. Recent advancements in computer technology ... -
Optimization approaches for designing baseball scout networks under uncertainty
(Georgia Institute of Technology, 2016-04-25)Major League Baseball (MLB) is a 30-team North American professional baseball league and Minor League Baseball (MiLB) is the hierarchy of developmental professional baseball teams for MLB. Most MLB players first develop ... -
A minimum cost and risk mitigation approach for blood collection
(Georgia Institute of Technology, 2016-04-15)Due to the limited supply and perishable nature of blood products, effective management of blood collection is critical for high quality healthcare delivery. Whole blood is typically collected over a 6 to 8 hour collection ... -
Headway control schemes to resist bus bunching
(Georgia Institute of Technology, 2016-02-29)Bus bunching occurs when two or more buses travel head to tail. It is an annoying problem in public transportation because it increases passengers' average waiting time and traveling time, wastes bus capacity, reduces the ... -
A metamodel of operational control for discrete event logistics systems
(Georgia Institute of Technology, 2016-01-15)Discrete Event Logistics Systems (DELS) are a class of dynamic systems that are defined by the transformation of discrete flows through a network of interconnected subsystems. The DELS domain includes systems such as supply ... -
Statistical estimation and changepoint detection methods in public health surveillance
(Georgia Institute of Technology, 2015-04-07)This thesis focuses on assessing and improving statistical methods implemented in two areas of public health research. The first topic involves estimation of national influenza-associated mortality rates via mathematical ... -
Convergent algorithms in simulation optimization
(Georgia Institute of Technology, 2015-04-08)It is frequently the case that deterministic optimization models could be made more practical by explicitly incorporating uncertainty. The resulting stochastic optimization problems are in general more difficult to solve ...
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