This study investigates the revenue performance of choice-based revenue management (RM) systems in various business environments. Previous research conducted using simulated data suggests that incremental revenue gains of up to 15% are to be expected when choice-based RM techniques are employed....

This dissertation contains two topics in operations research. The first topic is to design a distribution network to facilitate the repeated movement of shipments from many origins to many destinations. A method is developed to estimate transportation costs as a function of the number of...

This thesis studies two related topics in liner shipping. The first topic is the contract pricing problem for container carriers. The second part studies the interaction of the longer term contracts and the spot markets/exchanges for the same goods/services.Most containerized freight is...

In this thesis an algorithm (MLOPT) for mixed logit models is proposed. Mixed logit models are flexible discrete choice models, but their estimation with large datasets involves the solution of a nonlinear optimization problem with a high dimensional integral in the objective function, which is...

In this paper we present a survey of generalizations of the celebrated Farkas’s lemma, starting from systems of linear inequalities to a broad variety of non-linear systems. We focus on the generalizations which are targeted towards applications in continuous optimization. We also briefly...

This paper presents a comprehensive unified model for planning the retrofit of power plants with carbon capture (CC) technologies and the subsequent carbon dioxide (CO2) source-sink matching. The planning horizon is divided into time intervals that are not necessarily of equal duration, but...