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Showing 1 to 14 of 14 for “"decision making frameworks."”.
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Integrating thermoelectric power generation operations with aquatic ecosystem sustainability
… biology into the energy-water nexus can aid decision-makers in identifying tradeoffs and more effectively assessing and managing aquatic ecosystems. The central research question in this work is as follows: How can thermoelectric power plant thermal pollution be quantified with applications …
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Bridging Machine Learning and Operations Research: From Decision-Focused Learning to Learning to Optimize
Optimization is central to modern decision-making, with critical applications in energy systems, supply chains, transportation, and healthcare. In these domains, operators must repeatedly solve large-scale optimization problems under tight time constraints and pervasive uncertainty. For example, …
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Enhancing Coast Guard Infrastructure Management: A Multi-Criteria Framework for Prioritizing Maintenance Projects
… States Coast Guard is currently transforming its decision-making process for prioritizing shore infrastructure maintenance and repair projects. Current decision-making subjectivity appears to be generating inadequate project prioritizations. Stakes are high for an aging infrastructure portfolio in …
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Water Resource Management in the Lowlands of Southern Papua Using a Decision Support System and Integrating Traditional Ecological Knowledge
… However, when the development is driven by decision making frameworks that are incapable of including the values most important to the indigenous people of the districts, there is the potential to create injustice and inequity for present and future generations. The Mauri Model Decision …
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Optimizing resource allocation in large communications satellite constellations
… This dissertation develops optimization-based decision-making frameworks for designing and operating the next generation of communication constellations. In particular, novel methods for the Beam Shaping, User Grouping, Satellite Routing, Frequency Assignment, and Gateway Routing problems are …
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Work optimization with association rule mining of negative effective deterioration in building components
… challenges, as well as opportunities, for MR&R decision-making and optimized building preservation, which cannot adequately be handled by the existing decision-making frameworks. One such challenge to enterprise building portfolio management is the lack of understanding for the correlation of …
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Analysis and operations in complex networked systems: From urban infrastructure to epidemics
… of the real-world networked systems, and provide decision-making frameworks to operational problems. First, in an urban infrastructure system, local disruptions are likely to propagate to affect a large fraction of the system due to high infrastructural interdependencies. Meanwhile, urban …
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Enhancing the Use of Building Information Modelling (BIM) to Better Enable Life Cycle Assessment (LCA) in Sustainable Architectural Practice
… sustainability consultants in early-stage design decision-making and leveraging BIM tools to facilitate LCA, the study aims to advance sustainable architectural workflows and foreground embodied carbon considerations during the design phase. A comprehensive review of current literature was …
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Data-driven decision-making under uncertainty in power systems
In this dissertation, we construct decision-making frameworks and decision-support tools that seek to aid power system operators (SOs) in delivering an economical and reliable power system operation under uncertainty. The dissertation comprises nine publications, each of which lays out an …
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A roadmap for energy transition strategic planning and governance: a case study of Nigeria's grid-based renewable electricity sector.
… the ineffectiveness of the governance and the decision-making frameworks for addressing the challenges of the electricity sector, especially the stakeholders' involvement, is a debate in the literature and topical among experts and the academia. Transition theories have been widely applied to …
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Visitor Impact Assessment and Management for Protected Areas in Central and South America
… (PAIAM) framework was adapted from existing frameworks like carrying capacity and the Limits of Acceptable Change to provide a simple, cost-effective and relatively quick decision making process. PAIAM analyzes visitor impacts using an expert panel and incorporates stakeholders and local …
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Formulating an FM strategy for climate change mitigation and adaptation of commercial built assets
… developed which integrated the existing UKCIP decision-making framework and UKCIP02 climate-change projections. In developing this approach, the strategic risk perception and managerial attitude to climate change were identified and included as important factors affecting the decision-making …
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From symptoms to systems: An autoethnography of cystic fibrosis through systems engineering
Submission original under an indefinite embargo labeled 'Open Access'. The submission was exported from vireo on 2025-03-28 without embargo terms