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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...

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Advances 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...

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Acceleration 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...

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Accelerating 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...

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3D-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...

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The Desire to Fill: Addiction and British Visual Culture, 1751-1919

In “The Desire to Fill” 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...

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HIV/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 peoples’ lives. To do so, I examine an ongoing art project that seeks...

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Filming 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 “fine art” and “Folk art” by examining three documentary...

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Visions 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...

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The 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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