Browsing Department of Industrial, Manufacturing, and Systems Engineering by Title
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Evaluating the Impacts of Sleep Disruptions in Women through Automated Analysis (SJSL Framework)
(2016-07-27)The proposed research suggests a solution for female sleep disruption by using automated analytics and attempts to improve our understanding of sleep disruption physiology. Although, sleep disruption monitoring is gaining ... -
Evaluating the Impacts of the Internet of Things to Reduce Runway Incursions: Understanding the Why, How, and When
(2016-08-26)The Federal Aviation Administration’s (FAA) mission is to maintain the safest and most efficient aerospace system in the world. The FAA has stated that runway safety is one of their top priorities, which encapsulates ... -
Evaluation Of Quality And Sustainability Incentives To Optimize The Indonesian To The United States Crude Oil Supply Chain
(Industrial & Manufacturing Engineering, 2013-07-22)The New York Times explained that the United States increased its dependence on oil from Saudi Arabia by more than 20 percent last year (Krauss 2012). The United States of Energy Information Administration (U.S. EIA) stated ... -
An Exploration And Exploitation Pareto Approach To Surrogate Optimization
(Industrial & Manufacturing Engineering, 2014)The experiments or simulations conducted by computers can be a tedious task,requiring substantial computational time. To find a global solution using a computerexperiments process, we usually need to perform many function ... -
Exploring Deep Learning in Finance
(2022-05-20)Financial market analysis is process of analyzing market closely and predict the next move of market whether it will go up or down using historical data. Financial market is stochastic and has rapid changes over time, ... -
Facility Capital Equipment And Labor Decision Support System Using A Discrete-event Simulation And Bottleneck Detection Approach
(Industrial & Manufacturing Engineering, 2014-07-14)Market demand is constantly changing. Therefore, it is critical for companies to be flexible and willing to adapt in order to remain competitive. This study will evaluate bottleneck detection techniques that have been ... -
FORMING COALITIONS AND SHARING PAYOFFS IN n-PERSON NORMAL FORM GAMES
(2022-12-19)For a given n-person normal form game, we form all possible sets of mutually exclusive and collectively exhaustive coalitions of the n players. For each set of coalitions, we define a coalitional semi-cooperative game as ... -
Formulation Of Lean Six Sigma Critical Business Processes For Manufacturing Facilitites
(Industrial & Manufacturing Engineering, 2008-04-22)The author desired to create a method organizing the concepts from Lean, Six Sigma, critical business processes, and simplifying the usage of these concepts to identify Lean Six Sigma Critical Business Processes. Inspired ... -
Functional Data Analysis For Environmental And Biomedical Problems
(Industrial & Manufacturing Engineering, 2009-09-16)Vast amounts of data are being generated due to the development of sensing technology. Among those, one of the common types of data usually found in various discipline is the functional data. Because the functional data ... -
Global Optimization Of Nonconvex Piecewise Linear Regression Splines
(Industrial & Manufacturing Engineering, 2013-10-22)Global optimization has been applied to a wide variety of science and engineering design problems. Although numerous global optimization techniques have been developed and studied for decades, when used for complex systems ... -
High-dimensional Adaptive Dynamic Programming With Mixed Integer Linear Programming
Dynamic programming (DP, Bellman 1957) is a classic mathematical programming approach to solve multistage decision problems. The “Bellman equation” uses a recursive concept that includes both the current contribution and ... -
Hybrid Simulation Modeling for Humanitarian Relief Chain Coordination
(Emerald, 2015-12-07)**Please note that the full text is embargoed** ABSTRACT: Purpose The purpose of this paper is to present a conceptual framework for a hybrid simulation model that can be used to study the decision making and behaviors ... -
A Hybrid Simulation Modeling Framework for Regional Food Hubs
(Springer, 2017-02-06)**Please note that the full text is embargoed** ABSTRACT: As demand for regionally-produced food has increased, regional food hubs have helped to facilitate connections between consumers and small-scale food producers. ... -
IDENTIFYING AND ADDRESSING IMPROVEMENT OPPORTUNITIES IN PRIMARY CARE CLINICS
(2020-05-14)**Please note that the full text is embargoed until 5/25/2024** ABSTRACT: The main aim of this dissertation is to study how unrecognized opportunities for improving efficiency of in-person patient visits in a primary care ... -
IMPLEMENTATION PROCESS FOR AUTOMATED DATA ANALYSIS IN MINERAL EXTRACTION COMPANIES
(2015-11-24)The need to determine knowledge from increasing amounts of information and raw data is a current and ongoing goal [1]. As technology continues to advance in the ability to collect and save more and more data, companies ... -
INCREASING THE SAFETY OF BICYCLISTS USING A CYCLIST BEHAVIOR QUESTIONNAIRE AND A SMARTPHONE BASED APPLICATION
(2023-08-23)**Please note that the full text is embargoed until 8/1/2025** ABSTRACT: Bicycling is beneficial for health, the environment, road users’ flexibility, and personal expenses. Compared to motor vehicles, they are an active ... -
Integrated Nurse Staffing And Assignment Under Uncertainty
(Industrial & Manufacturing Engineering, 2007-09-17)One of the major problems in the United States health care system is a shortage of nurses. Baby boomers and an increasing elderly population are the main reasons for a rapidly growing demand for nurses. Besides the decline ... -
Integration Of Data Mining Algorithms And Control Charts For Multivariate And Autocorrelated Processes
(Industrial & Manufacturing Engineering, 2010-03-03)The objective of this dissertation is to integrate state-of-the-art data mining algorithms with statistical process control (SPC) tools to achieve efficient monitoring in multivariate and autocorrelated process. Process ... -
Inventory Pooling In Petroleum Upstream Logistics Network
(Industrial & Manufacturing Engineering, 2014-07-14)The petroleum industry is heading toward the era of efficiency and cost reduction. Oilfield service companies have to raise their efficiency to stay competitive. This dissertation explores the efficiency issues facing an ... -
Joint Kinematics, Muscle Activity And Postural Strain For Finger- Intensive Operation Of Small Hand- Held Devices
(Industrial & Manufacturing Engineering, 2014)Background: Extensive movement of fingers while playing video games, and while browsing or texting in a smartphone often result in medically recognized repetitive strain injuries such as "PlayStation thumb" or "Blackberry ...