Browsing by Author "Smith, Alice"

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The Automated Design of Network Graph Algorithms with Applications in Cybersecurity

Pope, Aaron (2020-01-06) ETD File Embargoed

Graph representations and graph algorithms are commonplace in a wide variety of research domains, including computer and network security. Many problems can be expressed in terms of graphs in order to leverage the strengths ...

A Computational System to Solve the Warehouse Aisle Design Problem

Ozden, Sabahattin Gokhan (2017-05-17)

Order picking is the most costly operation in a warehouse. However, current warehouse design practices have been using the same design principles for more than sixty years: straight rows with parallel pick aisles and ...

Designing Optimal Layouts for Block Stacking Warehouses

Derhami, Shahab (2017-05-16)

Storing pallets of Stock Keeping Units (SKUs) on top of one another on a warehouse floor is known as block stacking. Although this storage system can be inexpensively implemented in any open area, it is challenging in terms ...

Facility layout and emerging advanced material handling optimization

Lee, Hung-Yu (2017-07-12)

This research explores the intersection of facility layout and vehicle routing, beginning with a study on a real-world semiconductor manufacturing facility layout problem (FLP), followed by a study of facility layout ...

Flying Drone Sidekick Travelling Salesman Problem with Integrating Pickup and Delivery

Yanpirat, Nawin (2023-10-30) ETD File Embargoed

With the current growth of e-commerce, the complexity of last-mile logistics has become an essential field of study to improve customer satisfaction. Existing research has primarily focused on integrating drones for delivery ...

Manufacturing Cost Prediction in the Presence of Categorical and Numeric Design Attributes

Sakinc, Eren (2016-07-27)

Manufacturing processes require not only physical operation capabilities but also non-physical management policies. When designing a new product or manufacturing a customer’s new unique design, the focal point is to establish ...

Order Picking Method for Multi-entity Cooperation in Picking Warehouses

Liu, Jingwei (2023-06-08)

In recent years, different kinds of autonomous robots have been widely studied and applied in warehouses to meet the increasing demand for dealing with more customer orders, providing shorter delivery time, and achieving ...

Test Planning and Validation through an Optimized Kriging Interpolation Process in a Sequential Sampling Adaptive Computer Learning Environment

Barnes, Jeremy (2012-07-27)

This dissertation explores Kriging in an adaptive computer learning environment with sequential sampling. The idea of this Design for Kriging (DFK) process was first mentioned in [1] titled “Kriging for Interpolation in ...

Using pre-deployment planning for maintaining network connectivity in MANET models

Chapman, Jarrett (2019-06-13)

Mobile Ad hoc Networks (MANET) allow communication with little or no network infrastructure. Assuming no infrastructure is available, user nodes are defined as service demanding and agent nodes as service providing, ...

Using Symbolic Data Analysis to Detect Fraud, Waste, and Abuse in Healthcare Insurance Claims Data

Reynolds, Frederick (2020-05-14)

As the nation’s cost of healthcare continues to escalate, so does the exposure to instances of fraud, waste, and abuse. Multiple approaches to detecting these occurrences are in practice today and there are multiple ...