Certificate in National Preparedness and Homeland Security
Recent Publications
 
  Center for National Preparedness experts frequently co-author publications and conduct research with University academic departments as well as partners in business, government, and non-profit agencies. Certificate students will have opportunities to participate in research and publication initiatives that identify best practices, data-driven approaches, and novel thinking related to preparedness issues.

The publications below illustrate the breadth of research conducted with the help of experts affiliated with the Center for National Preparedness:

 
  "Dynamic Model Generation for Agent-based Emergency Response Simulation", Benjamin Zimmerman, David Nawn, Yu Wang, Brad Kuhlman, Ken Sochats, Louis Luangkesorn, Carey Balaban, Larry Shuman,and Bopaya Bidanda, ESRI International User Conference, San Diego, July 12-16, 2010

 
  "Pittsburgh's Role in National Emergency Preparedness", Leigh McIntosh and Ken Sochats, Pittsburgh Economic Quarterly, March, 2010

 
  Meeting Educational Challenges in Homeland Security and Emergency Management , Donald A. Donahue Jr., Stephen O. Cunnion, Ken Sochats and Carey D. Balaban, Journal of Homeland Security, February, 2010

 
  "New Disaster Modeling System Assists in Emergency Planning," Larry Shuman, Bopaya Bidanda, Bryan Lawson, Ken Sochats and Carey Balaban in Pittsburgh Economic Quarterly, October, 2008

 
  "Simulation-based Decision Support System for Real-time Disaster Response Management," Shengnan Wu, Larry Shuman, Bopaya Bidanda, Oleg Prokopyev, Matthew Kelley, Ken Sochats and Carey Balaban in Proceedings of the 2008 Industrial Engineering Research Conference, J. Fowler and S. Mason, eds.

 
  Agent-based Discrete Event Simulation Modeling for Disaster Responses," Shengnan Wu, Larry Shuman, Bopaya Bidanda, Matthew Kelley, Ken Sochats and Carey Balaban in Proceedings of the 2008 Industrial Engineering Research Conference, J. Fowler and S. Mason, eds.

 
  "Embedding GIS in Disaster Simulation" Shengnan Wu, Larry Shuman, Bopaya Bidanda, Matthew Kelley, Ken Sochats and Carey Balaban, ESRI International Users Conference, San Diego, June 18-22, 2007.

 
  "Disaster Policy Optimization: A Simulation Based Approach" Shengnan Wu, Larry Shuman, Bopaya Bidanda, Matthew Kelley, Ken Sochats and Carey Balaban in Proceedings of the 2007 Industrial Engineering Research Conference G. Bayraksan, W. Lin, Y. Son, and R. Wysk, eds.

 
  "SYSTEM IMPLEMENTATION ISSUES OF DYNAMIC DISCRETE DISASTER DECISION SIMULATION SYSTEM (D4S2) – PHASE I" Shengnan Wu, Larry Shuman, Bopaya Bidanda, Matthew Kelley, Bryan Lawson, Ken Sochats and Carey Balaban in Proceedings of the 2007 Winter Simulation Conference S. G. Henderson, B. Biller, M.H. Hsieh, J. Shortle, J. D. Tew, and R. R. Barton, eds.  
 

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