Thesis defence

Pallets are the most common form of packaging in the retail industry. Their building involves the solution of a three-dimensional packing problem with side practical constraints such as item support and pallet stability, leading to what is known as the mixed-case palletization problem. Motivated by the fact that solving industry-size instances is still very challenging for current methods, we propose a new solution methodology that combines data analysis at the instance level and optimization to build pallets.

Condition-based Inspection and Maintenance of Medical Devices

Supervisor(s): Qi-Ming He, Hossein Abouee Mehrizi

Job description mining to understand the undergraduate co-operative market

Supervisor(s): Lukasz Golab

Resource Allocation Models in Healthcare Decision Making

Supervisor(s): Fatih Safa Erenay, Osman Ozaltin

Abstract

We present models for allocating limited healthcare resources efficiently among target populations in order to maximize society's welfare and/or minimize the expected costs. In general, this thesis is composed of two major parts.