Search Results - "Guikema, S.D."

Statistical models of the effects of tree trimming on power system outages by Guikema, S.D., Davidson, R.A., Haibin Liu

“…This paper develops statistical models for estimating the impacts of tree trimming on electric power system outages under normal (nonstorm) operating…”
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Resilience and equity: Quantifying the distributional effects of resilience-enhancing strategies in a smallholder agricultural system by Williams, T.G., Guikema, S.D., Brown, D.G., Agrawal, A.

“…Strategies aiming to increase the climate resilience of smallholder agricultural systems may not equally benefit all groups of the smallholder population. To…”
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Assessing model equifinality for robust policy analysis in complex socio-environmental systems by Williams, T.G., Guikema, S.D., Brown, D.G., Agrawal, A.

“…Equifinality—a situation in which multiple plausible explanations exist for a single outcome—presents a challenge for socio-environmental systems modeling…”
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Application of Statistical Models to the Prediction of Seasonal Rainfall Anomalies over the Sahel by Badr, Hamada S., Zaitchik, Benjamin F., Guikema, Seth D.

“…Rainfall in the Sahel region of Africa is prone to large interannual variability, and it has exhibited a recent multidecadal drying trend. The well-documented…”
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Hybrid data mining-regression for infrastructure risk assessment based on zero-inflated data by Guikema, S.D., Quiring, S.M.

“…Infrastructure disaster risk assessment seeks to estimate the probability of a given customer or area losing service during a disaster, sometimes in…”
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Is ALARP applicable to the management of terrorist risks? by Guikema, S.D., Aven, T.

“…In this paper, we discuss the applicability of the as low as reasonable practicable (ALARP) principle to terrorist risk management. ALARP is a commonly used…”
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Optimal use of budget reserves to minimize technical and management failure risks during complex project development by Dillon, R.L., Pate-Cornell, M.E., Guikema, S.D.

“…Project managers are recognizing that adequate resource reserves are a critical success factor in a project development environment that is complex and…”
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Efficient simulation-based discrete optimization by Guikema, S.D., Davidson, R.A., Cagnan, Z.

“…In many practical applications of simulation it is desirable to optimize the levels of integer or binary variables that are inputs for the simulation model. In…”
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