This document examines finiteness issues in the context of structured global optimization problems. Specific aspects of this research include: (1) Development of finite algorithms, (2) Analysis of the algorithms' computational ...

This dissertation considers three topics. The first part discusses the pricing of American options under a local volatility model and two jump diffusion models: Kou's jump diffusion model and the Dupire system. In Chapter ...

The thesis pertains to some fundamental questions in the theory of games. Our focus is on a class of noncooperative N -player games, called generalized Nash games with shared constraints, or simply, shared-constraint games. ...

This thesis explores the use of generative algorithms in engineering design. A framework for using generative algorithms in design is presented and a case study for passive heat spreaders is devised to demonstrate the ...

Finally, we provide computational results on a real-world medical database pattern recognition problem. These results reveal that the Wisconsin Breast Cancer Database is bilinearly inseparable.

In this thesis, we present a model of the Traveling Salesman Problem (TSP) cast in a quadratic assignment problem framework with linearized objective function and constraints. This is referred to as Reformulation Linearization ...

“Green Profit” refers to economic profits generated by an environmentally sustainable business. As awareness of sustainability increases and environmental regulations become more stringent, manufacturers are faced with the ...

Ecological Interface Design (EID) is a recent philosophy for designing visual displays for human-machine interfaces that advocates displaying the higher-order relations and properties of a work domain so that adaptive ...

Global warming, greenhouse gas emissions, and product waste have serious impact on the balance of land, ocean, and air temperature. Environmentally conscious consumers and environmental protection legislation have been ...

Throughout a product's lifecycle, multiple stakeholders interact with each other to generate large amounts of disparate information about it. All of modern product development, particularly, in Original Equipment Manufacturers ...