Combinatorial Auctions for Truckload Transportation Procurement
The goal of this dissertation is to understand the market-based mechanisms that enable shippers to allocate lanes in an efficient way for truckload (TL) transportation procurement despite the...
View ArticleAdvances in Portfolio Selection Under Discrete Choice Constraints: A...
Over the last year or so, we have witnessed the global effects and repercussions related to the field of finance. Supposed blue chip stocks and well-established companies have folded and filed for...
View ArticleAcceleration of Iterative Methods for Markov Decision Processes
This research focuses on Markov Decision Processes (MDP). MDP is one of the most important and challenging areas of Operations Research. Every day people make many decisions: today's decisions impact...
View ArticleAccelerating Successive Approximation Algorithm Via Action Elimination
This research is an effort to improve the performance of successive approximation algorithm with a prime aim of solving finite states and actions, infinite horizon, stationary, discrete and discounted...
View Article3D-tracking of A Priori Unknown Objects in Cluttered Dynamic Environments
Tracking of an object's full six degree-of-freedom (6-dof) position and orientation (pose) would allow a robotic system to autonomously perform a variety of complex tasks, such as docking from any...
View ArticleThe Desire to Fill: Addiction and British Visual Culture, 1751-1919
In âThe Desire to Fillâ I examine visual culture, including paintings, graphic art, advertisements and architecture, in relation to the lived experience of addiction. My study begins in 1751, the...
View ArticleHIV/AIDS and Identity Recovery: STITCHing the Self Back Together
In this thesis I explore and evaluate the grounds upon which we can claim that community and activist art makes a difference in peoplesâ lives. To do so, I examine an ongoing art project that seeks...
View ArticleFilming the Folk Artist-Genius: The "Documentation" of Maud Lewis
In this thesis I critically analyze the ways in which the work of Nova Scotian artist Maud Lewis circulates within the categories of âfine artâ and âFolk artâ by examining three documentary...
View ArticleVisions which Succeed: Regional Publics and Public Folk Art in Maritime Canada
This thesis examines the intersections of visual culture with processes of folklorization in Maritime Canada between 1964 and 2007. Throughout this thesis, I explore how visual culture helps make...
View ArticleThe iconography of Rembrandt's depictions of the Holy Family (in a domestic...
The main topic of discussion in this thesis is the iconography of two etchings and five paintings of the Holy Family in a domestic or domestic/workshop setting. All of these works were, at one time,...
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