Aouad, Ali (Mohammed Ali)(Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2017)
Finding optimal product offerings is a fundamental operational issue in modern retailing, exemplified by the development of recommendation systems and decision support tools. The challenge is that designing an accurate ...
Yan, Chiwei(Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2017)
The global airline industry is a multi-stakeholder stochastic system whose performance is the outcome of complex interactions between its multiple decisions-makers under a high degree of uncertainty. Inadequate understanding ...
Lubin, Miles (Miles C.)(Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2017)
In this thesis, we study mixed-integer convex optimization, or mixed-integer convex programming (MICP), the class of optimization problems where one seeks to minimize a convex objective function subject to convex constraints ...
Candela Garza, Eduardo(Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2017)
We present our work with a hotel company as an example of how machine learning techniques can be used to improve the demand predictions of a hotel property, as well as its pricing and capacity allocation decisions. First, ...
Kung, Jerry Lai(Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2017)
Health care expenditures in the United States have been increasing at unsustainable rates for more than thirty years with no signs of abating. Decisions to accept or reject deceased-donor kidneys offered to patients on the ...