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A method for distribution network design and models for option-contracting strategy with buyers' learning

dc.contributor.advisor Kleywegt, Anton J.
dc.contributor.author Lee, Jinpyo en_US
dc.contributor.committeeMember Ayhan, Hayriye
dc.contributor.committeeMember Dai, Jiangang
dc.contributor.committeeMember Erera, Alan L.
dc.contributor.committeeMember Ward, Amy R.
dc.contributor.department Industrial and Systems Engineering en_US
dc.date.accessioned 2009-08-26T17:31:28Z
dc.date.available 2009-08-26T17:31:28Z
dc.date.issued 2008-07-09 en_US
dc.description.abstract This dissertation contains two topics in operations research. The first topic is to design a distribution network to facilitate the repeated movement of shipments from many origins to many destinations. A method is developed to estimate transportation costs as a function of the number of terminals and moreover to determine the best number of terminals. The second topic is to study dynamics of a buyer's behavior when the buyer can buy goods through both option contracts and a spot market and the buyer attempts to learn the probability distribution of the spot price. The buyer estimates the spot price distribution as though it is exogenous. However, the spot price distribution is not exogenous but is endogenous because it is affected by the buyer's decision regarding option purchases. en_US
dc.description.degree Ph.D. en_US
dc.identifier.uri http://hdl.handle.net/1853/29620
dc.publisher Georgia Institute of Technology en_US
dc.subject Continuous approximation en_US
dc.subject Option contract en_US
dc.subject Stochastic approximation en_US
dc.subject.lcsh Physical distribution of goods
dc.subject.lcsh Shipment of goods
dc.subject.lcsh Mathematical optimization
dc.subject.lcsh Options (Finance)
dc.subject.lcsh Spot prices
dc.title A method for distribution network design and models for option-contracting strategy with buyers' learning en_US
dc.type Text
dc.type.genre Dissertation
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local.contributor.advisor Kleywegt, Anton J.
local.contributor.corporatename H. Milton Stewart School of Industrial and Systems Engineering
local.contributor.corporatename College of Engineering
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