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Optimizing investments in interdependent infrastructures
(2013)
The design of infrastructure networks challenges managers and researchers due to the size of current networks, their interconnectedness and the disruptions they are exposed to. Many studies address the topic of the design ...
Using Social Media to Predict Traffic Flow under Special Event Conditions
(2013)
Social media is great resource of user-generated contents. Public attention, opinion and hot topics can be captured in the social media, which provides the ability to predict human related events. Since social media can ...
The Role of IT Assets in Organizational Accumulation and Appropriation of Social Capital for Business Risk Mitigation and Inter-organizational Innovation
(2013)
This dissertation comprises of three essays examining the interplay of information technology with various social processes that typically inhabit the organizational space. The first essay presents the concept of a ...
Distribution Cost Sharing in Collaborative Logistics: Theoretical, Post Hoc and A Priori Analytics
(2013)
In collaborative logistics, multiple participants share the same route for product distribution to reduce total costs. However, each one is only willing to pay a reasonable price for its own portion. The core question in ...
Three essays on the role of social media in social crises: A collective sensemaking view
(2013)
Flexible, mobile, and distributive social web technologies afforded online users with unprecedented opportunities to connect previously disconnected groups of people at a distance surrounding shared interests or common ...
Agent-based Modeling of Social Influence, Traffic Patterns, and Warning Strategies during Hurricane Evacuation
(2013)
As coastal populations experience the growing threat of hurricanes as a consequence of global climate change, research on hurricane evacuation has drawn increasing attention from scientists, emergency management planners, ...
A probabilistic measure of similarity for latent fingerprints
(2013)
In forensics a latent print is a mark left on a surface by a human friction ridge pattern such as a fingerprint. The task of latent print examination involves comparing a latent print to a known (or exemplar) print. Latent ...