I seek to understand the processes of organising that emerges and manifests as food-spaces, where class and gender are constructed and performed. Such spaces may be constituted as 'eating-out' spaces, work-spaces and social ...

Owing to the e-commerce revolution, food service business is shifting from being the traditional brick-and-mortar dine-in restaurant to being an online food ordering business. Although the online food service delivery ...

This thesis focuses on developing exact solution methods for mixed-integer linear and nonlinear maxmin problems. The first essay proposes a tri-level min-max-min optimization problem (pM-FLPI) to design a resilient food ...

Hub-and-spoke networks are used in the operations of businesses like telecommunication, transportation and energy systems. The network has special facilities known as hubs which act as interim nodes between source and ...

Facility location problems reported in the literature generally assume the problem parameter values (like cost, budget, etc.) to be known with complete certainty, even if they change over time (as in multi-period versions). ...

Asset Liability Management (ALM) is a critical part of financial planning for all financial institutions. ALM deals with the management of a mismatch between the assets and liabilities of such firms both in value as well ...