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Essays on Integrating Product Design and Marketing Research.
(2009)
Engineers and product designers have developed sophisticated models to predict the technical performance of their designs, yet they seldom quantify how performance affects the desirability of the resulting products to ...
A Mechanism Design Approach to Decentralized Resource Allocation in Wireless and Large-Scale Networks: Realization and Implementation.
(2009)
In this thesis we present a mechanism design approach to decentralized resource
allocation in wireless and large-scale networks. For wireless networks we study the
problem of power allocation where each user's transmissions ...
The Construction of Preference in Engineering Design and Implications for Green Products
(2008)
This dissertation incorporates the construction of preference into engineering design methodology. Currently, engineers view customer preferences as existing a priori, evoking metaphors such as “need-finding.” For some ...
Quantifying the Impact of Environmental Policy on Engineering Design Decisions.
(2011)
In order to realize environmental goals, policymakers are increasingly creating measures to encourage the redesign of products to improve environmental performance. Developing an approach to evaluate the influence of these ...
Three Essays on Resource Allocation: Load Balancing on Highly Variable Service Time Networks, Managing Default Risk via Subsidies and Supplier Diversification, and Optimal Hotel Room Assignment.
(2010)
The first essay considers a service center with two stations in accordance with independent Poisson processes. Service times at either station follow the same general distribution, are independent of each other and are ...
The Effect of Trade Credit on Operational Policies and on the Relationship Between Banks, Suppliers, and Manufacturers.
(2010)
Companies in a broad range of industries and economies rely heavily on external sources to finance their operations. But, external financing could be expensive and/or difficult to obtain due to imperfections in real capital ...