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Selected Publications

An * denotes a student or postdoc. who was advised by Dr. Guikema at the time the work was carried out.

2015

Reilly, A.*, A. Samuel, and S.D. Guikema. 2015. "Gaming the system: Decision making by interdependent critical infrastructure," Decision Analysis [Accepted April 2015]

Gelyani, A.M., E.B. Abrahamsen, F. Asche, and S.D. Guikema. 2015. "Some considerations on how often safety critical valves should be tested," International Journal of Business Continuity and Risk Management [Accepted April 2015].

Shortridge, J.*, S. Falconi*, B. Zaitchik, and S.D. Guikema. 2015. "Climate, agriculture, and hunger: Statistical prediction of undernourishment using non-linear regression and data mining techniques," Journal of Applied Statistics [Accepted March 2015].

Nateghi, R.*, S.D. Guikema, Y. Wu*, and B. Bruss*. 2015. "Critical assessment of the foundations of power transmission and distribution reliabitliy metrics and standards," Risk Analysis [Accepted March 2015].

Aven, T. and S.D. Guikema. 2015. "The Concept of Terrorism Risk," Risk Analysis [Accepted March 2015]

2014

Staid, A.* and S.D. Guikema. 2014. "Risk analysis for offshore wind farms: The need for an integrated approach," Risk Analysis [Accepted October 2014]. DOI: 10.1111/risa.12324.

Staid, A.*, S.D. Guikema, R. Nateghi, S.M. Quiring, and M. Gao. 2014. "Simulation of tropcial cyclone impacts to the U.S. power system under climate change scenarios," Climatic Change, Vol. 127, Iss 3-4, pp. 535-546. DOI: 10.1007/s10584-014-1272-3.

S.D. Guikema, R. Nateghi, S.M. Quiring, A. Reilly, and M. Gao. 2014. "Precicting Hurricane Power Outages to Support Storm Response Planning," IEE Access, Vol. 2. DOI: 10.1109/ACCESS.2014.2365716.

Urquhart, E., B. Zaitchik, S.D. Guikema, B.J. Haley, E. Tayian, A. Chen, M.E. Brown, A. Huq, and R.R. Calwell. 2014. "Use of Environmental Parameters to Model Pathogenic Vibrios in Chesapeake Bay," Journal of Environmental Informatics [Accepted September 2014].

Staid, A.*, P. Pinson, and S.D. Guikema. 2014. "Probabilistic Maximum-Value Wind Prediction for Offshore Environments," Wind Energy. [Accepted June 2014, DOI: 10.1002/we.1787].

LaRocca, S.*, J. Johansson, H. Hassel, and S.D. Guikema. “Topological Performance Measures as Surrogates for Physical Flow Models for Risk and Vulnerability Analysis for Electric Power Systems,” Risk Analysis [accepted July 2014].

LaRocca, S.* and S.D. Guikema, “Characterizing and Predicting the Robustness of Power Law Networks,” Reliability Engineering & System Safety [accepted July 2014].

Anderson, W*, S.D. Guikema, B. Zaitchik, and W. Pan. “Methods for estimating population density in data-limited areas: evaluating regression and tree-based models in Peru” accepted for publication in PLOS One [May 2014].

Nateghi, R.*, S.D. Guikema, S.M. Quiring. “Forecasting Hurricane-Induced Power Outage Durations,” submitted to Natural Hazards [accepted pending minor revisions].

Quiring. S.M., A. Schumacher, and S.D. Guikema. 2014. “Incorporating Hurricane Forecast Uncertainty into Decision Support Applications,” Bulletin of the American Metrological Society, Vol. 95, pp. 47-58.

Urquhart, E., B. Zaitchik, C. Del Castillo, D. Waugh, and S.D. Guikema. “Uncertainty in Model Predictions of Vibrio vulnificus Response to Climate Variability and Change: a Chesapeake Bay Case Study,” PLOS ONE [accepted May 2014].

Francis, R., S.D. Guikema, L. Henneman*. “Bayesian Belief Networks for Predicting Drinking Water Distribution System Pipe Breaks,” Reliability Engineering & System Safety [accepted April 2014].

Reilly, A.C.* and S.D.Guikema. “Bayesian Multiscale Modeling of Spatial Infrastructure Performance Predictions,” ASCE Journal of Infrastructure Systems [accepted April 2014].

Shortridge, J.* and S.D. Guikema. “Public Health and Pipe Breaks in Water Distribution Systems: Analysis with Internet Search Volume as a Proxy,” Water Research [accepted January 2014].

2013

Badr, H., B. Zaitchik, and S.D. Guikema. "Statistical Predictive Models for Seasonal Rainfall Anomalies over Sahel," Journal of Applied Meteorology and Climatology [Accepted November 2013].

Nateghi, R.*, S.D. Guikema, and S.M. Quiring. "Power Outage Estiamtion for Tropical Cyclones: Improved Accuracy with Simpler Models," Risk Analysis [Accepted September 2013].

Han, S-R.*, D. Rosowsky, and S.D. Guikema. "Estimating Fragilities for Power Distribution System Poles using Bayesian Methods and Structural Reliability Models," Risk Analysis [Accepted June 2013].

Quiring, S.M., A. Schumacher, and S.D. Guikema. "Incorporating Hurricane Forecast Uncertainty into Decision Support Applications," Bulletin of the American Meteorological Society [Accepted May 2013, scheduled for January 2014 publication].

Staid, A.* and S.D. Guikema. "Statistical Analysis of Installed Wind Capacity in the United States," Energy Policy[Accepted May 2013].


2012

Urquhart, E., M.J. Hoffman, B.F. Zaitchik, S.D. Guikema, and E.F. Geiger. 2012. "Remotely Sensed Estiamtes of Surface Salinity in the Chesapeake Bay," Remote Sensing of the Environment, Vol. 23, pp. 522-531.

Yu, O-Y., A. Medina-Centina, S.D. Guikema, J-L. Briaud, and D. Burnett. 2012. "Integrated Approach for the Optimal Selection of Environmentally Friendly Drilling Systems," International Journal of Energy and Environmental Engineering, Vol. 3, No. 25 DOI: 10.118/2251-6832-3-25 (Open Source)

Samuel, A. and S.D. Guikema. 2012. "Resource Allocation for Homeland Defense: Dealing With the Team Effect," Decision Analysis, Vol. 9, No. 3, pp. 238-252.

Yu, O.-Y., S.D. Guikema, J.-L. Briaud, and D. Burnett. 2012. “Sensitivity Analysis for Multi-Attribute System Selection Problems in Onshore Environmentally Friendly Drilling (EFD)”, INCOSE Journal of Systems Engineering, Vol. 15, No. 2, pp. 153-171.

Guikema, S.D. and S.M. Quiring. 2012. “Hybrid Data Mining-Regression for Infrastructure Risk Assessment Based on Zero-Inflated Data,” Reliability Engineering & System Safety, Vol. 99, pp. 178-182.

Lord, D. and S.D. Guikema, 2012. “The Conway-Maxwell-Poisson Model for Analyzing Crash Data,” peer-reviewed commentary, Applied Stochastic Models in Business and Industry, Vol. 28, No. 2, pp. 122-127.

McLay, L, C. Rothschild, and S.D. Guikema, 2012. “Robust Adversarial Risk Analysis: A Level-k Approach,” Decision Analysis, Vol. 9, No. 1, pp. 41-54.

S.D. Guikema. 2012. “Modeling Intelligent Adversaries for Terrorism Risk Assessment: Some Necessary Conditions for Adversary Models,” Risk Analysis, [in press, published on-line December 2011. DOI: 10.1111/j.1539-6924.2011.01737.x].

Rothschild, C., L. McLay, and S.D. Guikema. 2012. “Adversarial Risk Analysis with Incomplete Information: A Level-k Approach,” Risk Analysis [in press, published on-line October 2011, DOI: 10.1111/j.1539-6924.2011.01701.x].

Francis, R.*, S.D. Guikema, D. Lord, S. Geedipally, and S. LaRocca. 2012. “Characterizing the Performance of the Conway-Maxwell Poisson Generalized Linear Model,” Risk Analysis, Vol. 32, No. 1, pp. 167-183.


2011

Aven, T. and S.D. Guikema. 2011. “Whose uncertainty assessment (probability distributions) does a risk assessment report: the analysts’ or the experts?” Reliability Engineering & System Safety, Vol. 96, No. 10, pp. 1257-1262.

Nateghi, R*, S.D. Guikema, and S.M. Quiring. 2011. “Comparison and Validation of Statistical Methods for Predicting Power Outage Durations During Hurricanes,” Risk Analysis, Vol. 31, No. 12, pp. 1897-1906.

Cho*, H., F. Olivera, and S.D. Guikema. 2011. "Enhanced Speciation in Particle Swarm Optimization for Multi-Modal Problems," European Journal of Operational Research, Vol. 213, No. 1, pp. 15-23.

Quiring, S.M., L. Zhu, and S.D. Guikema. 2011. “Importance of soil and elevation characteristics for modeling hurricane-induced power outages” Natural Hazards, Vol. 58, No. 1, pp. 365-390.

Yu O.K., S.G. Guikema, J.L. Briaud, and D. Burnett. 2011. “Quantitative decision tools for system selection in environmentally friendly drilling,” Civil Engineering and Environmental Systems. DOI: 10.1080/10286608.2010.543280

Francis*, R., S. Falconi*, R. Nateghi*, and S.D. Guikema. 2011. “Probabilistic life cycle analysis model for evaluating electric power infrastructure risk mitigation investments,” Climatic Change. Vol. 106, No. 1 (2011), Page 31-55. DOI: 10.1007/s10584-010-0001-9.


2010

Lord, D., S.R. Geedipally, and S.D. Guikema. 2010. “Extension of the Application of Conway-Maxwell-Poisson Models: Analyzing Traffic Crash Data Exhibiting Underdispersion,” Risk Analysis, Vol. 30, No. 8, pp. 1268-1276.

Guikema, S.D., S.R. Han, S.M. Quiring. 2010. “Pre-Storm Estimation of Hurricane Damage to Electric Power Distribution Systems,” Risk Analysis, Vol. 30, No. 12, pp. 1744-1752.

Guikema, S.D., T. Aven. 2010. “Using ALARP for Terrorist Risk Analysis,” Reliability Engineering & Systems Safety, Vol. 95, No. 8, pp. 823-827.

Booker, G., A. Sprintson, E. Zechman, C. Singh, and S. Guikema. 2010. “Efficient Traffic Loss Evaluation for Transport Backbone Networks,” Computer Networks, Vol. 54, No. 10, pp. 1683-1691.

Guikema, S.D. and T. Aven. 2010. "Assessing Risk from Intelligent Attacks: A Perspective on Approaches." Reliability Engineering and System Safety, Vol. 95, No. 5, pp. 478-483.

Booker, G., J. Torres*, S.D. Guikema, A. Sprintson, and K. Brumbelow. 2010. “Estimating Cellular Network Performance During Hurricanes,” Reliability Engineering & System Safety. Vol. 95, No. 4, pp. 337-344.


2009

Han, S.-R.*, S.D. Guikema, and S.M. Quiring. 2009. “Improving the Predictive Accuracy of Hurricane Power Outage Forecasts using Generalized Additive Models,” Risk Analysis, Vol. 29, No. 10, pp. 1443-1453.

Guikema, S.D. and J.P. Coffelt*. 2009. “Modeling Count Data for Non-Linear, Complex Infrastructure Systems,” ASCE Journal of Infrastructure Systems, Vol. 15, No. 3, pp. 172-178.

Guikema, S.D. and P. Gardoni. 2009. Reliability estimation for networks of reinforced concrete bridges, ASCE Journal of Infrastructure Systems Vol. 15, No. 2, pp. 61-69.

Sanchez-Silva, M., D. Rosowsky, and S.D. Guikema. 2009. “Decision-Based Optimization Model for Design and Operation of Transportation Networks in Seismic Regions,” Journal of Infrastructure Systems, Vol. 15, No. 2, pp. 70-79.

Guikema, S.D. 2009. “Sustainability and Resilience in Infrastructure Design and Management in Disaster Prone Regions,” Science, Vol. 323, No. 5919, pp. 1302. Perspectives Paper.

Torres, J.*, K. Brumbelow, S.D. Guikema. 2009. “Classification and Uncertainty Propagation for Virtual Water Distribution Systems,” Reliability Engineering & System Safety, Vol. 94, No. 8, pp. 1259-1273.

Cho*, H., F. Olivera, and S.D. Guikema. 2009. "A Derivation of the Number of Minima of the Griwank Function," Applied Mathematics and Computation, Vol. 204, No. 2, pp. 694-701.

Imbeah, W.* and S.D. Guikema. 2009. “Construction Risk Analysis Using the Advanced Programmatic Risk Analysis Model (APRAM),” Journal of Construction Engineering and Management, Vol. 135, No. 8, pp. 772-781.

Guikema, S.D. 2009. "Natural Disaster Risk Analysis for Critical Infrastructure Systems: An Approach Based on Statistical Learning Theory." Reliability Engineering and System Safety. Vol. 94, No. 4, pp. 855-860.

Yamijala, S.*, S.D. Guikema, and K. Brumbelow. 2009. “Statistical Estimation of Water Distribution System Pipe Reliability,” Reliability Engineering & System Safety Vol. 94, No. 2, pp. 282-293.

Han, S.*, S.D. Guikema, S.M. Quiring, K. Lee, D. Rosowsky, and R.A. Davidson. 2009. “Estimating the Spatial Distribution of Power Outages during Hurricanes in the Gulf Coast Region,” Reliability Engineering & System Safety, Vol. 94, No. 2, pp. 199-210.