Current Research Interests
- Evaluating the vulnerability of populations to mercury emissions.
- Developing models to assess the effect of electronic commerce on the logistics industry.
- Developing PC-based decision support tools for planning eco-industrial parks, and for assisting in community-based, environmental decision making.
- Defining, assessing, measuring, and mapping the factors that affect the vulnerability of coastal communities to severe storms.
- Continued work on risk and uncertainty analysis and on location/allocation models and methods.
Selected Publications
Aoyama, Yuko, Samuel Ratick and Guido Schwarz. 2005. Modeling the impact of business-to-business electronic commerce on the organization of the logistics industry. Geographical Analysis 37: 84-106.
Desai, Anand, Samuel Ratick and Arie Shinnar. 2005. Data envelopment analysis with stochastic variations in data. Socio-economic Planning Sciences 39: 147-164.
Manson, S.M., Samuel Ratick and A.R. Solow. 2002. Decision making and uncertainty: Bayesian analysis of potential flood heights. Geographical Analysis 34 no. 2: 112-129.
Current, John, Samuel J. Ratick and Charles ReVelle. 1998. Dynamic facility location when the total number of facilities is uncertain: A decision analysis approach. The European Journal of Operational Research 110: 597-609.
Serra, Daniel, Samuel J. Ratick and Charles ReVelle. 1996. The maximum capture problem with uncertainty. Environment and Planning B 26: 49-59.
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