There have been two consistent drivers over the last sixty years of the evolution of computing: Computer power and price/performance improve by a factor of two every eighteen months; the problems that we wish to solve require this growth in capability and more.We seem to be reaching inflection...

This thesis aims to make a contribution to the area of Disruption Risk Management in Supply Chains. The key feature of a supply chain that provides it with the ability to withstand the adverse effects of disruptive events is resilience - the ability to adapt to disruptive phenomena. In this...

This study demonstrates that Pigouvian taxes derived from the socially optimum shadow prices of shared resources may result in serious deviations between users' response and the socially optimal resource use when the users' profit motive is not shared by the social planner and the resultant...

Vaccination is one of the most important and successful public health endeavors in human history, profoundly reducing mortalities caused by infectious diseases. In the United States, the comprehensive success of large scale pediatric immunization programs results from the collaboration of an...

In this dissertation, we investigate the effects of different environmental-economic policy choices on the well-being of people in the affluent North and the relatively poor South blocks of countries. We also investigate how regional cooperation or noncooperation in choosing these policies...

Strategic objectives in modern discrete-part manufacturing are shifting from the previously sought economies of scale to the so called economies of scope, where emphasis is placed on product variety and customization, as well as the increased responsiveness of the production system to widely...

As Vietnam emerges into world markets, Vietnamese organizations face a predicament: how can they move up the value chain thus avoiding the economic trap of being merely low-cost producers depending on cheap labor and therefore vulnerable to newly developing countries with even lower wages?...

RazorGuard Inc., in collaboration with Winsell Inc., is looking to design a new ergonomically shaped and well economically researched razorblade handle. The male shaving accessories industry is primarily controlled by Gillette and Schick, RazorGuard and Winsell have expressed no interest in...

Probabilistic choice models are used by economists, psychologists, and marketing scientists in the analysis of choice behavior involving discrete, or quantal choice alternatives. The most widely-used of these is the multinomial logit model, which is a special case of the Luce model. These models...