Samuel J. Ratick
Research Professor

The George Perkins Marsh Institute
Clark University
Worcester, MA 01610-1477
508.751.4605 phone
508.751.4600 fax
email: sratick@clarku.edu

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.