Trade space exploration is a promising decision-making paradigm that provides a visual and more intuitive means for formulating, adjusting, and ultimately solving design optimization problems. This is achieved by combining multi-dimensional data visualization techniques with visual steering...

This thesis deals with developing and solving tactical inventory planning models for a supply chain that will enable the individual companies to determine their ordering policies efficiently under different conditions. The supply chain is modeled as a single warehouse supplying a product to...

Thanks to advances in computing power and speed, designers can now generate a wealth of data on demand to support engineering design and decision-making. Unfortunately, while the ability to generate and store new data continues to grow, methods and tools to support data exploration have evolved...

This dissertation explores coordination schemes that can be used to align the incentives of an original equipment manufacturer (OEM) and its contract manufacturer (CM). The coordination ismediated by demand forecast sharing and component overage risk sharing. Three major problems are studied:...