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The motivation for this research is that information systems are not often used to their full potential - individuals often fail to use valuable features of systems not allowing firms to maximize their return from investments ...

Personalization is a strategy that has been widely adopted by online retailers to enhance their customers' shopping experience, with the ultimate goal of building a strong and enduring customer relationship. Personalized ...

Stochastic approximation is one of the oldest approaches for solving stochastic optimization problems. In the first part of the dissertation, we study the convergence and asymptotic normality of a generalized form of ...

We present a study of two NP-hard telecommunications network design problems - the prize-collecting generalized minimum spanning tree problem (PCGMST) and the design of optical networks with wavelength division ...

This dissertation seeks to answer the following research questions: (1) what properties enable some organizations to generate more value from information technology (IT) than others? and (2) through what mechanisms do ...

We introduce several network design and planning problems that arise in the context of commercial satellite networks. At the heart of most of these problems we deal with a traffic routing problem over an extended planning ...

This dissertation includes three essays on hedging the interest rate and credit risks of Mortgage-Backed Securities (MBS). Essay one addresses the problem of how to efficiently estimate interest rate sensitivity parameters ...

Some firms (such as Intel and Medtronics) use a time–pacing strategy for new product development, introducing new generations at regular intervals. If the firm adopts a fast pace (introducing frequently) then it prematurely ...

Revenue management (RM) problems with full probabilistic information are well studied. However, as RM practice spreads to new businesses and industries, there are more and more applications where no or only limited information ...

This dissertation addresses two research questions relating to the role of setups in discrete parts manufacturing. The first research topic uses a carefully designed simulation study to investigate the role of setup ...