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Showing 1 to 18 of 18 for “"Decision Modeling"”.
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Service supply chain management : a hierarchical decision modeling approach
… this dissertation, a hierarchical framework for modeling the decision structure in SSCs is developed. This framework introduces and defines the key SSC entities: service products, service jobs, service providers, and the parameters for characterizing the demand behavior. As part of the framework …
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Personalized Decision Modeling for Intervention and Prevention of Cancers
… personalizing the corresponding strategies and decisions so as to provide the most appropriate or optimal medical services for different patients can greatly improve the current cancer control practices. This dissertation research performs an in-depth exploration of personalized decision …
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Reverse supply chain forecasting and decision modeling for improved inventory management
… The key outcomes are a forecasting model and decision-support framework to improve management of VzW's reverse supply chain inventory. The forecasting model relies on a reliability engineering formulation and incorporates a learning component to allow incremental forecast improvement …
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Dealing with uncertainty in health economic decision modeling. Applying statistical and data science methods
Health economic decision modeling is a widely used method to support decision makers in the health care sector choosing cost-effective interventions. Modeling allows to combine evidence from various sources and to compare different treatment strategies that exceed the feasible number of comparators …
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Partially Observable Markov Process Decision Modeling for the Optimal Maintenance of Oil and Gas Pipelines
Partially Observable Markov Decision Process (POMDP) frameworks are employed across various fields. This dissertation studies the applications of POMDP for maintaining oil and gas pipelines. Pipeline maintenance operations comprise several uncertain elements, especially when addressing …
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Multi-Criteria Decision Modeling for Best Value Selections in Target Value Design Integrated Project Delivery
… as a whole; a non-biased, transparent, decision-making process is necessary in order to deliver the project objectives within the constraints of the TVD. Thus delivering the expected value for the client and ensuring that all parties achieve project success. The need for this transparent …
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Developing high-density housing near Tren Urbano stations : financial feasibility for transit supportive condominiums
… in New Urbanism and real estate investment decision modeling to forecast the potential for building transit supportive housing at the Martinez Nadal station within the next two years. The analysis shows that market demand for high-density housing in San Juan is strong, a reflection of rising …
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Acting on Behaviorally Relevant Events and the Impact this has on Attention & Memory
… items. The second article utilizes diffusion decision modeling to reveal that the impact on memory is primarily on evidence accumulation. In the latter two empirical articles, I investigate what the neural origins of this phenomenon may be. Its underpinnings must involve a mechanism that is …
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Advances in Reinforcement Learning for Decision Support
On the level of decision support, most algorithmic problems encountered in machine learning are instances of pure prediction or pure automation tasks. This dissertation takes a holistic view of decision support, and begins by identifying four important problem classes that lie between the two …
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Yield management for telecommunication networks : defining a new landscape
… from airlines, a framework to simplify related decision modeling, and (iii) demonstrate both our argument and the framework by articulating several 'innovative' telecom services and modeling them to varying degrees of depth. This thesis focuses only on the decision-making that will be required …
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Understanding Millennial Investors' Behaviour Towards Cryptocurrency as an Investment
… developing of a conceptual model in decision-making, identifying which factors have the most influence on millennial investors in cryptocurrency, and lastly, contributing findings to fill in gaps in the both academic and business aspects. Among cryptocurrency users, most view it as an …
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Cost-utility analysis of EML4-ALK fusion testing followed by treatment with crizotinib in patients with Non-Small Cell Lung Cancer (NSCLC)
Objective NSCLC is the most common type of lung cancer and accounts for about 85% of all lung cancers. Currently a majority of patients with NSCLC are treated with surgical resection and/or cytotoxic drugs. Chemotherapy has resulted in a modest increase (median survival of 8 months with …
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Modeling interactions in a collaborative connected automated transportation system: a game theory approach
Submission original under an indefinite embargo labeled 'Open Access'. The submission was exported from vireo on 2022-11-11 without embargo terms
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Heterogeneous Decision-Making in Socio-Technical Systems Methodologies for Efficiency Measurement and Decision Analysis with Mixed Data
… and outputs, implicitly assume homogeneity among decision-making units (DMUs) and precise, ratio-scaled data. These assumptions fall short when confronted with the realities of STSs, which are characterized by behavioral heterogeneity, contextual variability, mixed-scale and imprecise data, and …
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A Framework For A Decision Support Model For Supply Chain Management In The Construction Industry
… framework for the development of computerized decision support systems for the supply chains of the electrical contracting industry. Decision models are ever-present in the materials management processes of industries other than construction and have proven their worth in improving productivity …
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Multiattribute utility functions for the deep borehole filter restoration problem
… shortages of uranium for power generation. Decision makers in uranium mining are often challenged by various uncertainties in their decision problems (financial, technological, geological) and multiple objectives (increase profits, decrease radiation hazards, improve safety of operations, …