The Department of Management Sciences is committed to providing quality education for students studying in research degree programme. The Department offers two types of research degree programmes, namely, Master of Philosophy (MPhil) and Doctor of Philosophy (PhD), which consists of both coursework and independent research studies culminating in the submission of a thesis.

Aims

To provide advanced education to nurture people who can

• Contribute to the advancement of knowledge through independent and original research;
• Demonstrate knowledge in management sciences and a high level of transferable skills, including analytical, communication and leadership skills;
• Enhance economic, social and cultural development.

Research Area

Knowledge and Innovation Management--operational research and statistical methods and their applications to business and management problems

Specific Research Topics

Decision modelling and analysis; mathematical programming; discrete optimisation; production and manufacturing resources planning (MRPII); service operations management; simulation modelling and analysis; operations analysis; neural networks; quantitative analysis in marketing and finance; productivity/efficiency analysis; comparative and experimental evaluations; risk analysis; reliability; marketing research; time series and forecasting; econometric and financial modelling; statistical estimation and inference; data mining and web mining; location and transportation analysis; e-logistics; inventory/material management; worker scheduling; vehicle scheduling; re-engineering; process improvement; statistical process control; quality function deployment; supply chain management; and total quality management.

Sample Thesis Titles

• Bidding strategy using multivariate distribution and EM algorithm
• Application of vector autoregressive models to Hong Kong air pollution data
• A study of discrete choice models with latent variables in apartment selection
• Customer satisfaction and market segmentation of Hong Kong supermarket industry
• Container logistics decision making under uncertainty
• A comparison of channel coordination performance for some contracts in newsvendor-type inventory models
• A study on linking consumer satisfaction to profit
• An econometric analysis of the Hong Kong real estate market: Hedonic price study and index number construction
• Application of conditional demand analysis in origin-destination (OD) matrix estimation using traffic counts and zonal characteristics
• Revenue management of hotel industry in Hong Kong
• Zero-inflated count data models for claim frequency in general insurance
• Customer-focused performance and its key resource-based determinants in turbulent environments: Evidence from China
• Topics in service quality management
• Service performance measurement in retail banking
• Optimization model for solid waste recovery facilities management in Hong Kong
• A Study of the Hong Kong housing prices
• Estimation and influence diagnostics for generalised linear mixed model
• Simultaneous estimation of origin-destination (OD) matrix and link choice proportion using traffic counts
• Transportation planning models : multi-objective and fuzzy programming with intelligent computational approaches
• A study of the relationship between property quality factors and the property price in residential market
• A study of waiting time and other service factors on repurchase behavior and service quality
• Testing for covariance stationarity of stock market returns: an intervention analysis
• A study of warehouse layout problems : meta-heuristic approaches
• Studies of SPC and design of life tests in industrial experiments
• A study on container packing problems
• Economic design of process control charts with fixed production schedules
• Some topics on graph coloring problem and its related problems
• Some strategic and tactical issues of material requirements planning (MRP) systems
• Simulation study of the ML and REML estimation methods for generalized linear mixed model with first order autoregressive random effect
• Comparison of segmentation methods in services marketing for small to medium enterprises
• A random-coefficients logit model applied to transportation
• Improved mathematical programming models in classification and preference ordering
• Artificial intelligence approaches for the cutting stock problem
• Study of multiple hoist scheduling design parameters via visual simulation modeling
• Neural network approach for manpower scheduling
• Goal programming method for the vehicle routing problem with soft time windows
• Cluster and operational analyses of family health services in Hong Kong
• Cost-optimised control plans for drifting production processes