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RESEARCH
Funded Projects:
National Science Foundation (NSF)
"Leveraging Smart Technologies and Managing Community Resilience through Networked Communities and Cross-Sector Partnerships," NSF SCC-IRG Track 2 (Award #1952792). Sept 2020 - Aug 2023. Funding amount: $1,225,000. PI: Y. Ge; Co-PIs: C. Zobel, N. Kapucu, L. Wang, H. Wang.
"Assessing the Feasibility of Systematizing Human-AI Teaming to Improve Community Resilience," NSF SCC-CIVIC-PG Track B (Award #2043522). Jan 2021 - Jun 2021. Funding amount: $49,855. PI: K. Stephens; Co-PIs: A. Hughes, H. Purohit, C. Zobel.
"Assessing the Impacts of Coastal Flood-Induced Relocation on Local Jurisdictions," NSF-CMMI (Award #1920478). Sept 2019 - Aug 2021. Funding amount: $325,000. PI: A. Bukvic; Co-PIs: J. Irish, J. Shortridge, C. Zobel.
"NRT: Disaster Resilience and Risk Management (DRRM) - Creating quantitative decision making frameworks for multi-dimensional and multi-scale analysis of hazard impact," NSF-NRT (Award #1735139). Sept 2017 - Aug 2022. Funding amount: $3 Million. PI: R. Weiss; Co-PIs:M. Cowell, J. Irish, C. G. Olgun, M. Paretti, Y. Zhang, C. Zobel.
"Resilience Analytics: A Data-Driven Approach for Enhanced Interdependent Network Resilience," NSF-CRISP Type 2 (Award #1541155). Oct 2015 - Sep 2018. Funding amount: $2.2 Million. PIs: K. Barker, A. Tapia; Co-PIs: J. Lambert, L. McClay, C. Nicholson, J. Ramirez-Marquez, C. Caragea, C. Zobel.
"Collaborative Research: Living in the KnowlEdge Society (LIKES)," NSF-CPATH CB (Award #0722259). Aug 2007 - Jul 2009. Funding amount: $290,000. PI: E. Fox; Co-PIs: C. Evia, W. Fan, S. Sheetz, C. Zobel.
Other
"Supporting Coastal Management Decisions: A Collaborative Geospatial Shoreline Inventory Approach," Virginia Tech Center for Coastal Studies. July 2022 - June 2023. PIs: C. Zobel, Y. Zhang. Partners: K. Nunez, K. Duhring, M. Lv (VIMS).
"Quantifying Natural Disasters' Impact on Neighborhood Transition," Global Forum on Urban and Regional Resilience. May 2016 - Aug 2016. PIs: Y. Zhang, C. Zobel.
"Fostering Community Resilience through Adaptive Learning in a Social Media Age," Institute for Society, Culture and Environment. March 2014 - September 2015. PIs: Y. Zhang, M. Cowell, C. Zobel.
"An Empirical Investigation of the Material Convergence Problem," Natural Hazards Center Quick Response Grant Program. Nov 2013 - Jan 2014. PIs: A. Arnette, C. Zobel.
"Decision Support to Achieve Watershed Nutrient Balance and Meet Water Quality Goals," USDA-CSREES (grant 2007-03825). Sep 2007 - Sep 2012. Funding amount: $596,000. PI: J. Pease; Co-PIs: D. Bosch, M.L. Wolfe, C. Zobel, J. Ogejo, G. Evanylo, K. Knowlton, N. Franz.
Refereed Journal Articles:
Baghersad, M., C.W. Zobel, M. Farahani, and R. Behara, "Trade-offs Between Equity and Efficiency in Prioritizing Critical Infrastructure Investments: A Case of Stormwater Management Systems," accepted by Production and Operations Management, October 2023.
Ge, Y., N. Kapucu, C.W. Zobel, S. Hasan, J.L. Hall, H. Wang, L. Wang, M. Cechowski, "Building community resilience through cross-sector partnerships and interdisciplinary research," Public Administration Review, 83(5), 2023, 1415-1422. https://doi.org/10.1111/puar.13697
Stephens, K.K., A.G. Harris, A. Hughes, C. Montagnolo, K. Nader, S.A. Stevens, T. Tasuji, Y. Xu, H. Purohit & C.W. Zobel, "Human-AI Teaming During an Ongoing Disaster: How Scripts Around Teaching and Feedback Reveal the Form of Human-Machine Communication," Human-Machine Communication, 6(1), 2023, 65-85. https://doi.org/10.30658/hmc.6.5
Alikhani, R., A. Ranjbar, A. Jamali, S.A. Torabi and C.W. Zobel, "Towards Increasing Synergistic Effects of Resilience Strategies in Supply Chain Network Design," Omega 116, 2023, 102819. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.omega.2022.102819
Kapucu, N., R. Okhai, Y. Ge and C.W. Zobel, "The use of documentary data for network analysis in emergency and crisis management." Natural Hazards, 116(1), 2023, 425–445. https://doi.org/10.1007/s11069-022-05681-5
Baghersad, M., C.W. Zobel, P.B. Lowry, and S. Chatterjee, "The roles of prior experience and the location on the severity of supply chain disruptions," International Journal of Production Research, 60(16), 2022, 5051-5070. https://doi.org/10.1080/00207543.2021.1948136
Baghersad, M. and C.W. Zobel, "Organizational Resilience to Disruption Risks: Developing Metrics and Testing Effectiveness of Operational Strategies," Risk Analysis, 42(3), 2022, 561-579. https://doi.org/10.1111/risa.13769
Kazemian, I., S.A. Torabi, C.W. Zobel, Y. Li, and M. Baghersad, "A multi-attribute supply chain network resilience assessment framework based on SNA-inspired indicators," Operational Research - An International Journal, 22(3), 2022, 1853-1883. https://doi.org/10.1007/s12351-021-00644-3
Huang, C.D., M. Baghersad, R.S. Behara, and C.W. Zobel, "Optimal Investment in Prevention and Recovery for Mitigating Epidemic Risks," Risk Analysis, 42(1), 2022, 206-220. https://doi.org/10.1111/risa.13707
Malmir, B. and C.W. Zobel, "An Applied Approach to Multi-criteria Humanitarian Supply Chain Planning for Pandemic Response," Journal of Humanitarian Logistics and Supply Chain Management - Special issue on Preparing the Humanitarian Supply Chain for Epidemics and Pandemics Response, 11(2), 2021, 320-346. https://doi.org/10.1108/JHLSCM-08-2020-0064
Zobel, C.W., C.A. MacKenzie, M. Baghersad, and Y. Li, "Establishing a frame of reference for measuring disaster resilience," Decision Support Systems, 40, 2021, 113406. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.dss.2020.113406
Baghersad, M. and C.W. Zobel, "Assessing the extended impacts of supply chain disruptions on firms: an empirical study," International Journal of Production Economics, 231, 2021, 107862. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ijpe.2020.107862
Li, Y. and C.W. Zobel, "Exploring supply chain network resilience in the presence of the ripple effect," International Journal of Production Economics, 228, 2020, 107693. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ijpe.2020.107693
Karakoc, D., K. Barker, C.W. Zobel, and Y. Almoghathawi, "Social Vulnerability and Equity Perspectives on Interdependent Infrastructure Network Component Importance," Sustainable Cities and Society, 57, 2020, 102072. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.scs.2020.102072
Li, Y., C.W. Zobel, O. Seref, and D. Chatfield, "Network Characteristics and Supply Chain Resilience under Conditions of Risk Propagation," International Journal of Production Economics, 223, 2020, 107529. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ijpe.2019.107529
Murray-Tuite, P., H. Wang, C.W. Zobel, Y.G. Ge, and R. Nateghi, "Critical Time, Space, and Decision-Making Agent Considerations in Human-Centered Interdisciplinary Hurricane-Related Research," Risk Analysis. https://doi.org/10.1111/risa.13380
Mena, C., S.A. Melnyk, M. Baghersad, and C.W. Zobel, "Sourcing decisions under conditions of risk and resilience: A behavioral study," Decision Sciences, 51(4), 2020, 985-1014. https://doi.org/10.1111/deci.12403
Davis, Z., C.W. Zobel, L. Khansa, and R. Glick. "Emergency Department Resilience to Disaster Level Overcrowding: A Component Resilience Framework for Analysis and Predictive Modeling," Journal of Operations Management, 66(1-2), 2020, 54-66. https://doi.org/10.1002/joom.1017
Zobel, C.W. and M. Baghersad, "Analytically Comparing Disaster Resilience across Multiple Dimensions," Socio-Economic Planning Sciences, 69, 2020, 100678. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.seps.2018.12.005
Ge, Y., C.W. Zobel, P. Murray-Tuite, H. Wang, and R. Nateghi. "Building an Interdisciplinary Team for Disaster Response Research: A Data-driven Approach," Risk Analysis, 41(7), 2021, 1145-1151. https://doi.org/10.1111/risa.13280
Arnette, A. N., C. W. Zobel. "A Risk-Based Approach to Improving Disaster Relief Asset Pre-Positioning," Production and Operations Management, 28(2), 2019, 457-478. https://doi.org/10.1111/poms.12934
MacDonald, J., C.W. Zobel, S.A. Melnyk, and S. Griffis, "Supply Chain Risk and Resilience: Theory Building through Structured Experiments and Simulation", International Journal of Production Research, 56(12), 2018, 4337-4355. https://doi.org/10.1080/00207543.2017.1421787
LaLone, N., A.H. Tapia, C. Caragea, and C.W. Zobel, "Embracing Human Noise as Resilience Indicator: Twitter as Power Grid Correlate," Sustainable and Resilient Infrastructure 2(4), 2017, 169-178. https://doi.org/10.1080/23789689.2017.1328920
Li, Y., C.W. Zobel, and R.S. Russell, "Value of supply disruption information and information accuracy," Journal of Purchasing and Supply Management, 23(3), 2017, 191-201. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.pursup.2016.12.001
Barker, K., J.H. Lambert, C.W. Zobel, A. Tapia, J.E. Ramirez-Marquez, L.A. McClay, C.D. Nicholson, and C. Caragea, "Defining Resilience Analytics for Interdependent Cyber-Physical-Social Networks," Sustainable and Resilient Infrastructure 2(2), 2017, pp. 59–67. https://doi.org/10.1080/23789689.2017.1294859
Chacko, J., L.P. Rees, C.W. Zobel, T.R. Rakes, R.S. Russell, and C.T. Ragsdale, "Decision support for long-range, community-based planning to mitigate against and recover from potential multiple disasters," Decision Support Systems, 87, 2016, 13-25. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.dss.2016.04.005
Arnette, A. and C.W. Zobel, "Investigation of Material Convergence in the September 2013 Colorado Floods," Natural Hazards Review, 17(2), 2016. https://doi.org/10.1061/(ASCE)NH.1527-6996.0000214
MacKenzie, C.A. and C.W. Zobel. "Allocating resources to enhance resilience, with application to Superstorm Sandy and an electric utility," Risk Analysis, 36(4), 2016, 847-862. https://doi.org/10.1111/risa.12479
Baghersad, M. and C.W. Zobel. "Economic impact of production bottlenecks caused by disasters impacting interdependent industry sectors" International Journal of Production Economics, 168, 2015, 71-80. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ijpe.2015.06.011
Zobel, C.W. and L.Z. Khansa. "Characterizing multi-event disaster resilience," Computers & Operations Research - special issue on MCDM in Emergency Management, 42, 2014, 83-94. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.cor.2011.09.024
Pant, R., K. Barker, and C.W. Zobel, "Static and dynamic metrics of economic resilience for interdependent infrastructure and industry sectors," Reliability Engineering & System Safety, 125(1), 2014, 92-102. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ress.2013.09.007
Zobel, C.W., "Quantitatively Representing Non-linear Disaster Recovery," Decision Sciences, 45(6), 2014, 1053–1082. https://doi.org/10.1111/deci.12103
Dottore, M.L. and C.W. Zobel, "Analyzing Economic Indicators of Disaster Resilience Following Hurricane Katrina," International Journal of Business Analytics, 1(1), 2014, 67-83. https://doi.org/10.4018/ijban.2014010105
Melnyk, S., C.W. Zobel, S. Griffis, and J. MacDonald, "Making Sense of Transient Responses in Simulation Studies: An Approach for Interpreting Transient Response Time Series Data," International Journal of Production Research, 52(3), 2014, 617-632. https://doi.org/10.1080/00207543.2013.803626
Seref, O. and C.W. Zobel, "Recursive Voids for Identifying a Nonconvex Boundary of a Set of Points in the Plane," Pattern Recognition, 46(12), 2013, 3288-3299. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.patcog.2013.05.013
Falasca, M. and C.W. Zobel, "An Optimization Model for Volunteer Assignments in Humanitarian Organizations," Socio-Economic Planning Sciences - Special Issue: Disaster Planning and Logistics: Part 2, 46(4), 2012, 250-260. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.seps.2012.07.003
Bosch, D., J. Pease, M.L. Wolfe, C.W. Zobel, J. Osorio, T. Denckla Cobb, and G. Evanylo, "Community DECISIONS: Stakeholder Focused Watershed Planning," Journal of Environmental Management, 112, 2012, 226-232. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jenvman.2012.07.031
Arnette, A.N. and C.W. Zobel, "An Optimization Model for Regional Renewable Energy Development," Renewable & Sustainable Energy Reviews, 16(7), 2012, 4606-4615. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.rser.2012.04.014
Khansa, L.Z., Zobel, C.W., and G. Goicochea, "Creating a Taxonomy for Mobile Commerce Innovations using Social Network and Cluster Analyses," International Journal of Electronic Commerce - special issue on M-commerce, Summer 2012, 16(4), 19-52. https://doi.org/10.2753/JEC1086-4415160402
Zobel, C.W. and L.Z. Khansa, "Quantifying Cyberinfrastructure Resilience against Multi-event Attacks," Decision Sciences, 43 (4), 2012, 687-710. https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1540-5915.2012.00364.x
Arnette, A.N. and C.W. Zobel, "The Role of Public Policy in Optimizing Renewable Energy Development in the Greater Southern Appalachian Mountains," Renewable & Sustainable Energy Reviews, 15(8), 2011, 3690-3702. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.rser.2011.07.012
Falasca, M. and C.W. Zobel, "A Two-Stage Procurement Model for Humanitarian Relief Supply Chains," Journal of Humanitarian Logistics and Supply Chain Management, 1(2), 2011, 151-169. https://doi.org/10.1108/20426741111188329
Arnette, A.N. and C.W. Zobel, "Spatial Analysis of Renewable Energy Potential in the Greater Southern Appalachian Mountains," Renewable Energy, 36(11), 2011, 2785-2798. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.renene.2011.04.024
Zobel, C.W. and D.F. Cook, "Evaluation of neural network variable influence measures for process control," Engineering Applications of Artificial Intelligence, 24(5), 2011, 803-812. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.engappai.2011.03.001
Zobel, C.W., "Representing perceived tradeoffs in defining disaster resilience," Decision Support Systems, 50(2), 2011, 394-403. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.dss.2010.10.001
Falasca, M., C.W. Zobel, and C.T. Ragsdale, "Helping a Small Development Aid Organization Manage Volunteers More Efficiently," Interfaces (INFORMS Journal on Applied Analytics), 41(3), 2011. https://doi.org/10.1287/inte.1110.0570
Zobel, C.W., "Supporting disaster resilience: Information technology and emergence in multi-organizational networks," Journal of Emergency Management, 9 (special issue 1), 2011, 47-52.
Arnette, A., C.W. Zobel, D. Bosch, J. Pease, and T. Metcalfe, "Stakeholder Ranking of Watershed Goals with the Vector Analytic Hierarchy Process: Effects of Participant Grouping Scenarios," Environmental Modelling and Software - Special Issue: Modeling with Stakeholders, 25(11), 2010, 1459-1469. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.envsoft.2009.10.009
Ragsdale, C.T. and C.W. Zobel, "A Simple Approach to Implementing and Training Neural Networks in Excel," Decision Sciences Journal of Innovative Education, 8 (1), 2010, 143-149. https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1540-4609.2009.00249.x
Zobel, C.W., J.R. Martin, II, and C.G. Olgun, "Disaster risk management for critical infrastructure: a services-based viewpoint," International Journal of Services Sciences, 2 (2), 2009, 189-205. https://doi.org/10.1504/IJSSCI.2009.024940
Zobel, C.W. and G.A. Wang, "Topic Maps for Improving Services in Disaster Operations Management," Journal of Service Science, 1 (1), 2008, 83-92. https://doi.org/10.19030/JSS.V1I1.4304
Martin, J.R., II, C.G. Olgun, C.W. Zobel, and H.T. Durgunoğlu. "Soil Improvement for Mitigation of Damages during the 1999 Kocaeli Earthquake," Journal of Earthquake Engineering, 12(S2 2008), 2008, 211-221. https://doi.org/10.1080/13632460802014063
Zobel, C.W. and K.B. Keeling, "Neural network-based simulation metamodels for predicting probability distributions," Computers & Industrial Engineering, 54 (4), 2008, 879-888. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.cie.2007.08.012
Zobel, C.W., Cook, D.F., and C.T. Ragsdale, "Data-driven classification using boundary observations," Decision Sciences, 37 (2), 2006, 247-262. https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1540-5915.2006.00123.x
Scheibe, K.P., Mennecke, B.E., and C.W. Zobel, "Creating Offshore-ready IT Professionals: A Global Perspective and Strong Collaborative Skills Are Needed," Journal of Labor Research, 27 (3), 2006, 275-290. https://doi.org/10.1007/s12122-006-1023-y
Cook, D.F., Zobel, C.W., and M.L. Wolfe, "Environmental statistical process control using an augmented neural network classification approach," European Journal of Operational Research, 174 (3), 2006, 1631-1642. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ejor.2005.04.035
Goel, A.M., Zobel, C.W., and E.C. Jones, "A multi-agent system for supporting the electronic contracting of food grains," Computers and Electronics in Agriculture, 48(2), 2005, 123-137. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.compag.2005.02.016
Zobel, C.W., Rakes, T.R., and L.P. Rees, "Automated merging of conflicting knowledge bases, using a consistent, majority-rule approach with knowledge-form maintenance," Computers & Operations Research, 32(7), 2005, 1809-1829. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.cor.2003.11.027
Zobel, C.W. and W.T. Scherer, "An empirical study of policy convergence in Markov decision process value iteration," Computers & Operations Research, 32(1), 2005, 127-142. https://doi.org/10.1016/S0305-0548(03)00207-7
Ragsdale, C.T. and C.W. Zobel, "The Ordered Cutting Stock Problem," Decision Sciences, 35(1), 2004, 81-98. https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1540-5414.2004.02505.x
Zobel, C.W., Cook, D.F., and Q.J. Nottingham, "An augmented neural network classification approach to detecting mean shifts in correlated manufacturing process parameters," International Journal of Production Research, 42(4), 2004, 741-758. https://doi.org/10.1080/00207540310001602856
Cook, D.F., Zobel, C.W., and Q.J. Nottingham, "Excel-based application of data visualization techniques for process monitoring in the forest products industry," Forest Products Journal, 54(5), 2004, 57-65.
Zobel, C.W. and W.T. Scherer, "Simulation-based Policy Generation with Large-scale Markov Decision Processes," IEEE Transactions on Systems, Man & Cybernetics - Part A: Systems and Humans, 31(6), 2001, 609-622. https://doi.org/10.1109/3468.983417
Nottingham, Q.J., Cook, D.F., and C.W. Zobel, "Visualization of multivariate data with radial plots using SAS," Computers & Industrial Engineering, 41(1), 2001, 17-35. https://doi.org/10.1016/S0360-8352(01)00040-7
Cook, D.F., Zobel, C.W., and Q.J. Nottingham, "Utilization of Neural Networks for the Recognition of Variance Shifts in Manufacturing Process Parameters," International Journal of Production Research, 39(17), 2001, 3881-3887. https://doi.org/10.1080/00207540110071750
Edited Books:
Zobel, C.W., N. Altay, and M. Haselkorn (eds.) Advances in Managing Humanitarian Operations. International Series in Operations Research & Management Science, Vol. 235. Springer, 2016.
Book Chapters:
Bukvic, A. and C.W. Zobel. (2022) "Drivers of slow-onset displacement in the coastal Mid-Atlantic region and preferences for receiving locations." Forthcoming in 'Rebuilding Communities after Displacement - Sustainable and Resilience Approaches', eds: M. Hamza, D. Amaratunga, R. Haigh, C. Malalgoda, and C. Jayakody.
Zobel, C.W., M. Baghersad, and Y. Zhang. (2017) "An approach for quantifying the multidimensional nature of disaster resilience in the context of municipal service provision." In A. Fekete and F. Fiedrich (Eds.), Urban Disaster Resilience and Security: Springer, 239-259.
Wiens, M., F. Schätter, C.W. Zobel, and F. Schultmann. (2017) "Collaborative Emergency Supply Chains for Essential Goods and Services." In A. Fekete and F. Fiedrich (Eds.), Urban Disaster Resilience and Security: Springer, 145-168.
Zobel, C.W., Altay, N., and M. Haselkorn. "Humanitarian Research and Managing Humanitarian Operations," In: Zobel, C.W., Altay, N., and M. Haselkorn, eds. Advances in Managing Humanitarian Operations, Springer International Series in Operations Research & Management Science 235, 2016.
Wenzel, F. and C.W. Zobel. "Multi-Hazard Perspectives for Power Network Resilience," In: Handbook on Protection of Electricity Transmission Infrastructure from Natural Hazards, February 2016.
Russell, R. S., & Zobel, C. W. (2008). "Bringing Service Sciences into the Curriculum." In B. Hefley, & W. Murphy (Eds.), Service Science, Management and Engineering: Education for the 21st Century: Springer, 137-140.
Conference Proceedings Papers:
Pamukcu, D., C.W. Zobel, and Y. Ge, "Prioritization of disaster-related requests in an IT-enabled public service system," ISCRAM 2023 (Omaha, Nebraska: 2023). https://idl.iscram.org/files/pamukcu/2023/2549_Pamukcu_etal2023.pdf
Zobel, C.W., and D. Pamukcu, "Examining User Access Options for eGovernment Services During a Crisis from a Digital Inequality Perspective," Hawaii International Conference on Systems Sciences (HICSS) (Maui, HI: 2023). https://scholarspace.manoa.hawaii.edu/items/1bbacbdd-20d1-4d6c-bbfc-9b0f8800f955
Pamukcu, D., C.W. Zobel, and Y. Ge, "A Data Envelopment Analysis-based Approach for Managing Performance of Public Service Systems During a Disaster," ISCRAM 2022 (Tarbes, France: 2022). https://idl.iscram.org/files/duygupamukcu/2022/2405_DuyguPamukcu_etal2022.pdf
Pamukcu, D., C.W. Zobel, and Y. Ge, "Analysis of Orange County 311 System Service Requests During the COVID-19 Pandemic," ISCRAM 2021 (Blacksburg, VA: 2021). https://idl.iscram.org/files/duygupamukcu/2021/2326_DuyguPamukcu_etal2021.pdf
Pamukcu, D. and C.W. Zobel, "Characterizing 311 System Reactions to a Global Health Emergency," Hawaii International Conference on System Sciences - HICSS 2021 (Maui, HI: 2021). https://scholarspace.manoa.hawaii.edu/handle/10125/70885
Pamukcu, D., C.W. Zobel, and A. Arnette, "Characterizing Social Community Structures in Emergency Shelter Planning," ISCRAM 2020 (Blacksburg, VA: 2020). https://idl.iscram.org/files/duygupamukcu/2020/2223_DuyguPamukcu_etal2020.pdf
Baghersad, M., C.W. Zobel, and R. Behara, "Evaluation of Local Government Performance after Disasters," ISCRAM 2020 (Blacksburg, VA: 2020). https://idl.iscram.org/files/miladbaghersad/2020/2221_MiladBaghersad_etal2020.pdf
Arnette, A.N., D. Pamukcu, and C.W. Zobel, "Post-impact analysis of disaster relief resource pre-positioning after the 2013 Colorado floods," ISCRAM 2020 (Blacksburg, VA: 2020). https://idl.iscram.org/files/andrewarnette/2020/2224_AndrewArnette_etal2020.pdf
Pamukçu, D., C.W. Zobel, and A. Arnette, "A New Data-Driven Approach to Measuring Hurricane Risk," ISCRAM 2019 - Towards individual-centric emergency management systems (Valencia, Spain: May 2019)
Chacko, J., C.W. Zobel, and L.P. Rees, "Challenges of Modeling Community-Driven Disaster Operations Management in Disaster Recurrent Areas: The Example of Portsmouth, Virginia," ISCRAM 2018 - Visualizing Crisis (Rochester, NY: May 2018).
Zobel, C.W., M. Baghersad, and Y. Zhang, "Calling 311: Evaluating the performance of municipal services after disasters," ISCRAM 2017 - Agility is coming (Albi, France: May 2017).
Li, Y. and C.W. Zobel, "Small Businesses and Social Media Usage in the 2013 Colorado Floods," ISCRAM 2016 – Resilience by all means (Rio de Janeiro, Brasil: May 2016).
Zhang, Y., W. Drake, Y. Li, C.W. Zobel, and M. Cowell. "Fostering Community Resilience through Adaptive Learning in a Social Media Age: Municipal Twitter Use in New Jersey following Hurricane Sandy," Proceedings of the 12th International ISCRAM Conference (Kristiansand, Norway: May, 2015)
Li, Y. and C.W. Zobel. "Evaluating the Value of Disruption Information for Mitigating Supply Chain Risks," 2015 POMS Annual Conference (Washington, DC: May 2015)
Chacko, J.C., L.P. Rees, and C.W. Zobel, "Improving Resource Allocation for Disaster Operations Management in a Multi-Hazard Context," Proceedings of the 11th International ISCRAM Conference (University Park, PA: May, 2014), pp. 83-87.
Zobel, C.W., "Analytically comparing disaster recovery following the 2012 derecho," Proceedings of the 10th International ISCRAM Conference (Baden-Baden, Germany: May, 2013).
Zobel, C.W., Melnyk, S., Griffis, S., and J. MacDonald, "Characterizing Disaster Resistance and Recovery using Outlier Detection," Proceedings of the 9th International ISCRAM Conference (Vancouver, BC: April, 2012).
Zobel, C.W., "Representing the Multi-Dimensional Nature of Disaster Resilience," ISCRAM 2011 - From Early-Warning Systems to Preparedness and Training (Lisbon, Portugal: May 2011).
Zobel, C.W., "Comparative visualization of predicted disaster resilience," ISCRAM 2010 - Defining Crisis Management 3.0 (Seattle, WA: May 2010).
Fetter, G., M. Falasca, C.W. Zobel, T.R. Rakes, "A Multi-stage Decision Model for Debris Disposal Operations," ISCRAM 2010 - Defining Crisis Management 3.0 (Seattle, WA: May 2010).
Falasca, M., C.W. Zobel, and G.M. Fetter, "An optimization model for humanitarian relief volunteer management," ISCRAM 2009 - Boundary spanning initiatives and new perspectives (Göteborg, Sweden: May 2009).
Zobel, C.W., "The use of information and communication technologies in support of dynamic partnerships for disaster resilience," in Exploring Innovative and Sustainable Approaches to Improve Community Resilience in Disaster Prevention and Response, Invited Symposium - International Disaster and Risk Conference (IDRC) 2008, Davos, Switzerland, Aug. 29-30, 2008.
Falasca, M., C.W. Zobel, and D.F. Cook, "A Decision Support Framework to Assess Supply Chain Resilience," ISCRAM (Information Systems for Crisis Response and Management) 2008 - Creating Advanced Systems for Inter-organizational Information Sharing and Collaboration (Washington, D.C.: May 2008), pp. 596-605.
King, M.A. and C.W. Zobel, "Applying the R4 Framework of Resilience: Information Technology Disaster Risk Management at Northrop Grumman," Proceedings of the 38th Annual Meeting of the Southeast Decision Sciences Institute (Orlando, FL: February 2008).
Zobel, C.W., E.C. Jones and P.R. Gupta, "Developing a Decision Support System for Value-Added Production in the Soft Red Winter Wheat Industry," Proceedings of the 31st Annual Decision Sciences Institute Meeting (Orlando, FL: 2000)
Zobel, C.W. and W.T. Scherer, "SMG: A new simulation/optimization approach for large-scale problems," Proceedings of the 1999 Winter Simulation Conference (Phoenix, AZ: 1999)
Zobel, C.W. and K.P. White, Jr., "Determining a warm-up period for a telephone network routing simulation," Proceedings of the 1999 Winter Simulation Conference (Phoenix, AZ: 1999)
Zobel, C.W. and W.T. Scherer, "An Application of Simulation for Large-Scale Markov Decision Processes to a Problem in Telephone Network Routing," Proceedings of the 1998 IEEE International Conference on Systems, Man and Cybernetics (San Diego, CA: 1998)
Zobel, C.W. and W.T. Scherer, "Simulation for large-scale Markov decision processes," Proceedings of the 1998 IMACS International Multiconference, CESA '98 (Hammamet, Tunisia: 1998) (Invited paper)
Center / Program Participation:
- Virginia Tech's Center for Coastal Studies - member
- Virginia Tech's Disaster Resilience-Interdisciplinary Graduate Education Program - Co-Director
- Virginia Tech's Global Change Center (GCC) - affiliated faculty member
- Virginia Tech Institute for Society, Culture and Environment (ISCE) - participating faculty
- Virginia Tech Center for Geospatial Information Technology - stakeholder committee member
- Penn State Center for Crisis, Community, and Civic (3C) Informatics - affiliated faculty member