Browsing by Thesis Advisor "Klein, Cerry M."
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Association rule mining in cooperative research
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2009)This study applies the data mining methods in economics research. Association rule mining and clustering techniques are used in the cooperative (United Producers, Inc) survey study, in order to find interesting patterns ... -
Data mining extension for economics
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2006)[ACCESS RESTRICTED TO THE UNIVERSITY OF MISSOURI AT AUTHOR'S REQUEST.] This research extends the fuzzy association rule mining technique capable of processing quantitative data and implements it to study the relationships ... -
Determining a heuristic for pick location design in an end user warehouse
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2014)Picking is the number one cost center for most warehouses, representing up to 65% of their total expenditures. Travel time is the largest component of the picking cost which makes travel distance an extremely important ... -
Economic justification of coordinated care program for the University of Missouri health care system
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2014)Due to financial and political pressure, the atmosphere of healthcare is radically changing. In order to adapt to these changes, many healthcare systems are seeking to employ coordinated care programs to increase the ... -
Minimizing health care spending by optimizing care management activities : a mixed-integer programming approach to managing population health
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2016)The United States has a health care spending problem. Accounting for over 17% of our Gross Domestic Product, almost 50% more than the next high-income country, America is spending much more than what is needed. Most of ... -
Modified Tabu search to solve complex, continuous-variable problems through gradient analysis and contour jumps
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2014)This paper introduces a method of solving np-hard problems with continuous random variables by using a modified Tabu search algorithm. Traditionally, Tabu search is a metaheuristic that deals with binary or integer variable ... -
Multi-attribute decision making: a test on the impact of data attributes dependency
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2007)[ACCESS RESTRICTED TO THE UNIVERSITY OF MISSOURI AT AUTHOR'S REQUEST.] In Multi-Attribute Decision Making (MADM) problems, several methods have been developed to aid the decision maker. MADM procedures can be applied to a ... -
New model of flying sidekick traveling salesman problem with a charge-station
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2017)Cooperation between a truck and a drone for last-mile delivery has been viewed as a way to help make more efficient ways of delivery of packages because of the great advantage of drones delivery. This problem was described ... -
A time buffered arc routing problem
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2015)Arc routing problems are prevalent in our world today. They are important to society and businesses on a daily basis. The purpose of this work is to consider a problem that has not been addressed in the literature. That ...