Browsing Department of Industrial, Manufacturing, and Systems Engineering by Title
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Risk Assessment and Analysis of Pharmaceutical Industry due to Recalls
(2017-05-04)In the past five years, there have been 5900 recalls of drugs by the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) which created distraught consumers and shareholders of pharmaceutical companies. In addition, recalls cause ... -
Robust Airline Fleet Assignment
(Industrial & Manufacturing Engineering, 2007-08-23)The fleet assignment model allocates the fleet of aircraft types to the scheduled flight legs in the airline timetable published 90 days prior to the departure of the aircraft. The objective is to maximize profit. While ... -
A Robust Cooperative Localization System For A Heterogeneous Team Of Small Unmanned Ground Vehicles
(Industrial & Manufacturing Engineering, 2007-09-19)This dissertation presents an organic approach to the cooperative localization problem by sequentially solving the problems of sensor calibration, multi-sensor fusion filtering, and cooperative localization. Successful ... -
ROBUST, TIME-CRITICAL, EVIDENCE-BASED ADAPTIVE DATA FUSION
(2020-05-14)Sensors have become inevitable part of many studies and working areas ranging from navigation, transportation and medical applications. A sensor can help a user in a variety of situations including dangerous, inaccessible, ... -
Scalar Equilibria For N-person Games
(Industrial & Manufacturing Engineering, 2013-10-23)In this dissertation we develop a scalarization approach for one-shot, n-person games by defining the notion of Scalar Equilibria. We first show that existing solution concepts can be represented as Scalar Equlibria. For ... -
Sealing And Lamination Of Microfluidic Devices
(Industrial & Manufacturing Engineering, 2008-09-17)A difficult problem facing microfluidic manufacturing of devices remains that often material requirements force device designers to choose materials that are difficult to bond, seal or enclose. Examples of these materials ... -
Sequential Frameworks For Statistics-based Value Function Representation In Approximate Dynamic Programming
(Industrial & Manufacturing Engineering, 2008-09-17)Dynamic programming (DP) was derived by Bellman in 1957 as a mathematical programming method to solve multistage decision problems. The DP concept has great potential, but it only can solve small problems exactly under ... -
SHAPE-BASED TIME SERIES MINING FOR PROCESS MONITORING AND ANOMALY DETECTION
(2021-09-02)Due to the rapid development of computing and sensing technology, Internet of Things (IoT)-enabled monitoring plays a crucial role for people suffering from cardiac problems. It is important to detect the abnormal ECG ... -
Software Capacity Planning: A Methodology For A Portfolio Of High Technology Product Development Projects
(Industrial & Manufacturing Engineering, 2009-09-16)High technology product development projects make extensive use of engineering software during the product development process. The suite of engineering software tools deployed during product development represents a ... -
Some New Results for Equilibria of N-Person Games
(2017-11-28)In this dissertation, we present four journal articles in the area of game theory. In the first article, we define a generalized equilibrium for n−person normal form games. We prove that the Nash equilibrium and the mixed ... -
Some New Results on Statistical Information and Evidence
(2020-05-21)This dissertation represents an attempt to relate some fundamental statistical problems using the notions of information, entropy, and evidence. -
Sparse Representation and Learning for Discriminative EEG Source Imaging
(2018-05-07)As a direct measurement modality of neural electrical firing patterns, electroencephalogram (EEG) has a much higher temporal resolution up to millisecond compared to positron emission topography (PET) and functional magnetic ... -
Stationary And Non-stationary Time Series Prediction Using State Space Model And Pattern-based Approach
(Industrial & Manufacturing Engineering, 2014)The motion-adaptive radiotherapy techniques are promising to deliver ablative radiation doses to tumor with minimal normal tissue exposure by accounting for real-time tumor movement. However, a major challenge of successful ... -
STATISTICAL META-MODEL FOR AIR TRAFFIC FLOW AND CAPACITY MANAGEMENT BASED ON AIRSPACE OPTIMIZATION-SIMULATION: THE CONTINUOUS CHALLENGE OF THE HUB OF THE AMERICA CONGESTION
(2018-08-31)Panama is only Country on the Americas with a Canal and the hub of Logistics that include the interaction of the Atlantic and the Pacific in a less than a day. This Logistics growth after the Panama Canal Expansion resulted ... -
Statistical Modeling Approach To Airline Revenue Management With Overbooking
(Industrial & Manufacturing Engineering, 2007-08-23)A Revenue Management (RM) method in the airline industry plays a very important role in maximizing revenue under various uncertainty issues, like customer demand, the number of seats to be maintained in inventory, the ... -
Statistics-based Approaches To Stochastic Optimal Control Problems
(Industrial & Manufacturing Engineering, 2007-08-23)This dissertation develops practical approaches to stochastic optimal control problems in the absence of linear system transition functions, quadratic cost functions, and/or Gaussian random disturbances. In such type of ... -
Supervised Sparse Learning with Applications in Bioinformatics
(2018-08-23)In machine learning and mathematical optimization, sparse learning is the use of mathematical norms such as L1-norm, group norm and L21-norm in order to seek a trade-off between the goodness-of-fit measure and sparsity of ... -
A Survey Paper of Protecting Critical Infrastructure: Applying High Reliability Theory to Advance Organizational Resilience
(Institute of Industrial and Systems Engineers (IISE), 2017)After the 1979 Three Mile Island nuclear plant meltdown, a claim was made that “accidents happen,” suggesting that such catastrophes were inevitable. That concept was eventually labeled normal accident theory (NAT). Soon ... -
A Sustainability Based Framework To Make A Strategic Outsourcing Decision For Warehouses In The Electronics Industry
(Industrial & Manufacturing Engineering, 2013-07-22)Over the course of last decades, sustainability matured from an abstract concept to an important source of corporate legitimacy. Supply chain management plays an important role in shaping and framing sustainability, due ... -
Sustainable Delivery System in a Temperature Controlled Supply Chain
(Institute of Industrial and Systems Engineers (IISE), 2018)A modern customer expects high quality of food products, and consequently, retailers must present their products in a decent quality to improve their reputation and customer retention in the market. There are many factors ...