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  • Estimation of sell-up potential in airline revenue management systems 
    Guo, Jingqiang Charles (Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2008)
    The growth of Low Fare Carriers (LFCs) has encouraged many airlines to remove fare restrictions (such as advance purchase requirements and Saturday-night stays) on many of their fare class products, leading to the ...
  • Examining financial puzzles from an evolutionary perspective 
    Guo, Kenrick (Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2006)
    In this thesis, we examine some puzzles in finance from an evolutionary perspective. We first provide a literature review of evolutionary psychology, and discuss three main findings; the frequentist hypothesis, applications ...
  • Fairness in operations : from theory to practice 
    Trichakis, Nikolaos K (Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2011)
    This thesis deals with two basic issues in resource allocation problems. The first issue pertains to how one approaches the problem of designing the "right" objective for a given resource allocation problem. The notion of ...
  • Finding optimal strategies for influencing social networks in two player games 
    Howard, Nicholas J. (Nicholas Jacob) (Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2011)
    This thesis considers the problem of optimally influencing social networks in Afghanistan as part of ongoing counterinsurgency efforts. The social network is analyzed using a discrete time agent based model. Each agent has ...
  • Forecast-driven tactical planning models for manufacturing systems 
    Chhaochhria, Pallav (Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2011)
    Our work is motivated by real-world planning challenges faced by a manufacturer of industrial products. In the first part of the thesis, we study a multi-product serial-flow production line that operates in a low-volume, ...
  • Fully polynomial time approximation schemes for sequential decision problems 
    Mostagir, Mohamed (Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2005)
    This thesis is divided into two parts sharing the common theme of fully polynomial time approximation schemes. In the first part, we introduce a generic approach for devising fully polynomial time approximation schemes for ...
  • General superposition strategies and asset allocation 
    Kaminski, Kathryn Margaret (Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2007)
    Investors commonly use stopping rules to help them get in and out of their investment positions. Despite their widespread use and support from behavioral finance, there has been little discussion of their impact on portfolio ...
  • The Gomory-Chvátal closure : polyhedrality, complexity, and extensions 
    Dunkel, Juliane (Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2011)
    In this thesis, we examine theoretical aspects of the Gomory-Chvátal closure of polyhedra. A Gomory-Chvátal cutting plane for a polyhedron P is derived from any rational inequality that is valid for P by shifting the ...
  • Governing the human capitalists : ownership and authority in the advertising and airline industries 
    Von Nordenflycht, Andrew Gustaf, 1969- (Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2004)
    Theorists suggest the rising value of human capital will mean greater participation by employees in the ownership and governance of firms. This thesis explores aspects of these claims by analyzing the competitive effects ...
  • Harmonization of aviation user charges in the North Atlantic airspace 
    Gaudet, Megan Brett (Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2008)
    The purpose of this thesis is to explore various harmonization scenarios for North Atlantic en route user charges. The current charging system involves eight countries, each with their own method for computing user charges. ...
  • Human machine collaborative decision making in a complex optimization system 
    Malasky, Jeremy S (Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2005)
    Numerous complex real-world applications are either theoretically intractable or unable to be solved in a practical amount of time. Researchers and practitioners are forced to implement heuristics in solving such problems ...
  • The impact of infrastructure-related taxes and fees on airline fares in the US and the European Union 
    Yamanaka, Shiro, 1975- (Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2005)
    The purpose of this thesis is to estimate the impact of infrastructure-related add-on taxes and fees on the direct cost of air travel in the United States and the European Union. Its scope includes domestic travel in the ...
  • Implementing reusable solvers : an object-oriented framework for operations research algorithms 
    Ruark, John Douglas, 1971- (Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 1998)
  • Incremental airline schedule design 
    Lohatepanont, Manoj, 1974- (Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 1999)
  • Inferring noncompensatory choice heuristics 
    Yee, Michael, 1978- (Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2006)
    Human decision making is a topic of great interest to marketers, psychologists, economists, and others. People are often modeled as rational utility maximizers with unlimited mental resources. However, due to the structure ...
  • Information and decentralization in inventory, supply chain, and transportation systems 
    Roels, Guillaume (Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2006)
    This thesis investigates the impact of lack of information and decentralization of decision-making on the performance of inventory, supply chain, and transportation systems. In the first part of the thesis, we study two ...
  • Integer optimization in data mining 
    Shioda, Romy, 1977- (Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2003)
    While continuous optimization methods have been widely used in statistics and data mining over the last thirty years, integer optimization has had very limited impact in statistical computation. Thus, our objective is to ...
  • Integer optimization methods for machine learning 
    Chang, Allison An (Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2012)
    In this thesis, we propose new mixed integer optimization (MIO) methods to ad- dress problems in machine learning. The first part develops methods for supervised bipartite ranking, which arises in prioritization tasks in ...
  • Interception algorithm for autonomous vehicles with imperfect information 
    Hickman, Randal E (Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2005)
    Autonomous vehicles often operate in environments with imperfect information. This thesis addresses the case of a system of autonomous vehicles and sensors attempting to intercept a moving object of interest that arrives ...
  • Inventory deployment and market area segmentation in a two-echelon distribution network design 
    Varol, Nebibe, 1980- (Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2004)
    Most of the logistics systems involve a multi-level distribution system structure due to value added by a multi-level configuration. Interactions of these levels, i.e. echelons, should be considered while making strategic ...
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