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Modified comparative life cycle assessment of end-of-life options for post-consumer products in urban regions

Guidry, Caroline - 2008

environmental strategies and new industries focused on sustainability and the recycling of a variety of post-consumer goods. In …

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Local Economic Development Agencies' Support for Construction and Demolition Recycling

Patterson, Lynn M. - 2007

The construction and demolition (C and D) recycling industry creates economic opportunity through business activity …, remanufacturing, and recycling of C and D debris. While C and D recycling satisfies traditional local economic development goals, it … recycling industry as an economic development strategy. In doing so, the dissertation assembles the array of activities local …

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Resource Modeling and Allocation in Competitive Systems

An, Na - 2005

This thesis includes three self-contained projects:In the first project Bidding strategies and their impact on the auctioneer's revenue in combinatorial auctions, focusing on combinatorial auctions, we propose a simple and efficient model for evaluating the value of any bundle given limited...

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An Analysis of Pricing and Leadtime Policies within the Marketing/Operations Interface

Pekgun-Cakmak, Pelin - 2007

In this thesis, we analyze the impact of the decentralization of price and leadtime decisions made by the marketing and production departments, respectively, in a make-to-order firm. We first study a monopoly environment, and find that in the decentralized setting, the total demand generated is...

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Decentralized Decision-making for Reverse Production Systems

Hong, I-Hsuan Ethan - 2005

decisions.In the second part, we extend the prototype model for a general multi-tiered recycling network comprised of the …

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Sequential Auction Design and Participant Behavior

Taylor, Kendra C. - 2005

This thesis studies the impact of sequential auction design on participant behavior from both a theoretical and an empirical viewpoint. In the first of the two analyses, three sequential auction designs are characterized and compared based on expected profitability to the participants. The...

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Procurement Mechanisms in the Presence of Learing by Doing

Oh, Se-Kyoung - 2005

In markets where suppliers experience learning by doing over time or, more generally, economies of scale in production, buyers are auctioning off longer-term contracts with an eroding price policy. Under an eroding price contract, the buyer initially competitively awards production to the...

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Effects of Human Decision Bias in Supply Chain Performance

Pranoto, Yudi - 2005

Studies in newsvendor decision-making have shown that human decisions systematically deviate from analytical solutions found in many utility models of the single period problem (SPP). Yet for the most part the impacts of this human decision bias in systems of newsvendor type products have not...

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Choice-based revenue management: a hotel perspective

Bodea, Tudor Dan - 2008

This study investigates the revenue performance of choice-based revenue management (RM) systems in various business environments. Previous research conducted using simulated data suggests that incremental revenue gains of up to 15% are to be expected when choice-based RM techniques are employed....

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A method for distribution network design and models for option-contracting strategy with buyers' learning

Lee, Jinpyo - 2008

This dissertation contains two topics in operations research. The first topic is to design a distribution network to facilitate the repeated movement of shipments from many origins to many destinations. A method is developed to estimate transportation costs as a function of the number of...

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