Transportation plays a major role in the global economy since it underlies all economic and social activities. However, the transportation sector in developed countries differs considerably from that of developing countries. In this thesis, we focus on long-haul freight transpor…
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The need for chemotherapy treatments at outpatient settings have significantly increased in the past several years. Ambulatory Infusion Centers are encountering difficulties in matching individual patient needs and infusion chair availability due to the high variability in chemo…
This was a qualitative study looking at the experience of emotional connection in therapy from both clients’ and therapists’ perspectives. The aim was to see whether and how the experience of emotional connection was the same or different for each party; and whether and how it w…
Many real-world optimisation problems are discrete in nature. Although recent rapid developments in computer technologies are steadily increasing the speed of computations, the size of an instance of a hard discrete optimisation problem solvable in prescribed time does not incre…
This thesis aims to review and analyze the scheduling problem in general and Job Shop Scheduling Problem (JSSP) in particular and the solution techniques applied to these problems. The JSSP is the most general and popular hard combinational optimization problem in manufacturing …
A complex system is a group or organization in which many components interact to perform functions that a single component cannot. The study of the evolution of complex systems can reveal the pattern of interactions, the dependencies between entities, the impacts on the system’s…
Corruption is pervasive in all societies and in all walks of life. Governments, public and private companies, sports, education, religious and charitable organizations: none are untouched by corruption, which seems to be both timeless and universal. We propose that gaming, an un…