Search Results - "Sefair, Jorge A."

Prostitution Arrest Spatial Forecasting in an Era of Increasing Decriminalization by Helderop, Edward, Grubesic, Tony H., Roe-Sepowitz, Dominique, Sefair, Jorge A.

“…There is ongoing debate regarding the merits of decriminalization or outright legalization of commercial sex work in the United States. A few municipalities…”
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The continuous maximum capacity path interdiction problem by Tayyebi, Javad, Mitra, Ankan, Sefair, Jorge A.

“…•Interdiction models represent realistic adversarial system interactions.•Maximum capacity path design problem in the presence of an adversary.•Realistic model…”
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Robust assortment optimization under sequential product unavailability by Mehrani, Saharnaz, Sefair, Jorge A.

“…•Choice model captures the effect of finding multiple unavailable products.•Maximum revenue assortment with customers leaving store due unavailable…”
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Route assignment and scheduling with trajectory coordination by Matin-Moghaddam, Navid, Sefair, Jorge A

“…We study the problem of finding optimal routes and schedules for multiple vehicles traveling in a network. Vehicles may have different origins and…”
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Towards a unified framework for connectivity that disentangles movement and mortality in space and time by Fletcher, Robert J., Sefair, Jorge A., Wang, Chao, Poli, Caroline L., Smith, Thomas A. H., Bruna, Emilio M., Holt, Robert D., Barfield, Michael, Marx, Andrew J., Acevedo, Miguel A., He, Fangliang

“…Predicting connectivity, or how landscapes alter movement, is essential for understanding the scope for species persistence with environmental change. Although…”
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Demand prediction and dynamic workforce allocation to improve airport screening operations by Hanumantha, Girish Jampani, Arici, Berkin T, Sefair, Jorge A, Askin, Ronald

“…Workforce allocation and configuration decisions at airport security checkpoints (e.g., number of lanes open) are usually based on passenger volume forecasts…”
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Dynamic shortest-path interdiction by Sefair, Jorge A., Smith, J. Cole

“…We study a dynamic network game between an attacker and a user. The user wishes to find a shortest path between a pair of nodes in a directed network, and the…”
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Linear solution schemes for Mean-SemiVariance Project portfolio selection problems: An application in the oil and gas industry by Sefair, Jorge A., Méndez, Carlos Y., Babat, Onur, Medaglia, Andrés L., Zuluaga, Luis F.

“…We study the Mean-SemiVariance Project (MSVP) portfolio selection problem, where the objective is to obtain the optimal risk-reward portfolio of non-divisible…”
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samc: an R package for connectivity modeling with spatial absorbing Markov chains by Marx, Andrew J., Wang, Chao, Sefair, Jorge A., Acevedo, Miguel A., Fletcher, Robert J.

“…Quantifying landscape connectivity is fundamental to better understand and predict how populations respond to environmental change. Currently, popular methods…”
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A Simulation-Optimization Approach to Improve the Allocation of Security Screening Resources in Airport Terminal Checkpoints by Perez, Eduardo, Taunton, Logan, Sefair, Jorge A.

“…In this research, a simulation based optimization strategy is developed to improve the operation of airport security screening checkpoints (SSCPs). The…”
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A visual analytics framework for conservation planning optimization by Zhang, Rui, Lu, Yafeng, Adams, Katherine, Sefair, Jorge A., Mellin, Haley, Acevedo, Miguel A., Maciejewski, Ross

“…Approximately 15% of global land is currently in some state of protection. Recent conservation research suggests the need for a drastic increase of protected…”
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Optimization model for urban air quality policy design: A case study in Latin America by Sefair, Jorge A., Espinosa, Mónica, Behrentz, Eduardo, Medaglia, Andrés L.

“…Air pollution is a major problem caused by urban growth and poses a high risk to human health. To mitigate the negative impact of pollution, some cities have…”
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A column-oriented optimization approach for the generation of correlated random vectors by Sefair, Jorge A., Guaje, Oscar, Medaglia, Andrés L.

“…To induce a desired correlation structure among random variables, widely popular simulation software relies upon the method of Iman and Conover (IC). The…”
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Extending isolation by resistance to predict genetic connectivity by Fletcher, Robert J., Sefair, Jorge A., Kortessis, Nicholas, Jaffe, Roldolfo, Holt, Robert D., Robertson, Ellen P., Duncan, Sarah I., Marx, Andrew J., Austin, James D.

“…Genetic connectivity lies at the heart of evolutionary theory, and landscape genetics has rapidly advanced to understand how gene flow can be impacted by the…”
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Optimization model for the selection of materials using a LEED-based green building rating system in Colombia by Castro-Lacouture, Daniel, Sefair, Jorge A., Flórez, Laura, Medaglia, Andrés L.

“…Buildings have a significant and continuously increasing impact on the environment because they are responsible for a large portion of carbon emissions and use…”
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A defender-attacker model and algorithm for maximizing weighted expected hitting time with application to conservation planning by Sefair, Jorge A, J Cole Smith, Acevedo, Miguel A, Fletcher, Robert J

“…This article studies an interdiction problem in which two agents with opposed interests, a defender and an attacker, interact in a system governed by an…”
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Exact algorithms and bounds for the dynamic assignment interdiction problem by Sefair, Jorge A., Smith, J. Cole

“…We study a multi‐stage dynamic assignment interdiction (DAI) game in which two agents, a user and an attacker, compete in the underlying bipartite assignment…”
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Conservation under uncertainty: optimal network protection strategies for worst‐case disturbance events by Acevedo, Miguel A, Sefair, Jorge A, Smith, J. Cole, Reichert, Brian, Fletcher, Robert J., Jr, Fuller, Richard

“…Conservation goals are ideally set after a thorough understanding of potential threats; however, predicting future spatial patterns of threats, such as…”
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Clone Swarms: Learning to Predict and Control Multi-Robot Systems by Imitation by Zhou, Siyu, Phielipp, Mariano J., Sefair, Jorge A., Walker, Sara I., Amor, Heni Ben

“…In this paper, we propose SwarmNet - a neural network architecture that can learn to predict and imitate the behavior of an observed swarm of agents in a…”
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A multiobjective model for the selection and timing of public enterprise projects by Medaglia, Andrés L., Hueth, Darrell, Mendieta, Juan Carlos, Sefair, Jorge A.

“…In theory, a public utility company improves the quality of community life through its projects and actions. However, project selection and prioritization by…”
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