Socio-Economic Planning Sciences 35 (2001) 81–82
About the Authors
Vol. 35, No. 1 (2001)
Charles C. Branas (‘‘An iterative switching heuristic to locate hospitals and helicopters’’) is Assistant Professor, Department of Biostatistics and Epidemiology, University of Pennsylvania School of Medicine, Philadelphia. He holds a B.S. in mathematics from Franklin and Marshall College, Lancaster, PA, an M.S. in emergency medical services from Hahnemann University of the Health Sciences, Philadelphia, and the Ph.D. in health and public policy from The Johns Hopkins University School of Hygiene and Public Health, Baltimore, MD. He has also completed postdoctoral work in health services research at the University of California, Berkeley. Professor Banas’ research interests focus on spatial epidemiology, injury prevention, and the quality of health care. His work has appeared inHealth Services Research, The Journal of Trauma, Annals of Emergency Medicine, Academic Emergency Medicine, Archives of Surgery, Journal of Vascular Surgery, Journal of the American Osteopathic Association, Journal of Vascular Technology, and
Journal of Ultrasound in Medicine. Professor Banas’ professional affiliations include the American Public Health Association, INFORMS, and the Association for Health Services Research.
Charles ReVelle (‘‘An iterative switching heuristic to locate hospitals and helicopters’’) is Professor in the Program in Systems Analysis and Economics for Public Decision Making, The Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, MD. He holds a B.S. in chemical engineering and the Ph.D. in environmental systems engineering, both from Cornell University, Ithaca, NY. Professor ReVelle’s ambitious research program is currently focused in three principal areas: (1) water management science including water quality and water resource systems, (2) the siting of emergency facilities, of public sector facilities and of industrial facilities, and (3) the spatial design of nature reserves. His work in these areas has appeared in the form of more than 175 articles, published in a diverse set of journals. These include Socio-Economic Planning Sciences, Water Resources Research, Journal of the Water Pollution Control Federation, Operations Research, Management Science, American Review of Respiratory Disease, Solar Energy, Transportation Science, Transportation Research, Journal of Regional Science, Demography, and European Journal of Operational Research.Professor ReVelle is an Associate Editorof Management Science, and a member of the editorial boards of Socio-Economic Planning Sciences, European Journal of Operational Research, and Environmental Modeling and Assessment. With his wife, Penelope, he has written three books: Sourcebook on the Environment (Houghton Muffin, 1974), The Environment: Issues and Choices for Society (Jones and Bartlett, now in its 3rd Edition, 1987) and The Global Environment: Securing a Sustainable Future(Jones and Bartlett, 1992). He is co-author of the senior undergraduate text Civil and Environmental Systems Engineering (Prentice-Hall, 1996). He is co-editor of Design and Operation of Civil and Environmental Engineering Systems (Wiley, 1997), a volume of collected reviews. And, he is sole author of Optimizing Reservoir Resources: Including a New Model of Reservoir Reliability(Wiley, 1999).
Aki Kangasharju (‘‘Innovation dynamics in space: local actors and local factors’’) is Economist, Pellervo Economic Research Institute, Helsinki, Finland. He holds a Diploma in Social Sciences from University of Kent at Canterbury, England, and an M.Sc., Licentiate in Economics, and Dr. in Economics, all from the School of Business and Economics, University of Jyvaskyla, Finland. Dr. Kangasharju’s research interests include regional economic growth and develop-ment, entrepreneurship in small and medium sized firms, and innovation. His work has appeared in Regional Studies, Applied Economics, Finnish Economic Papers, Academy of Entrepreneurship Journal, Small Business Economics, The Regional Science Review,and Papers in Regional Science.
Peter Nijkamp(‘‘Innovation dynamics in space: local actors and local factors’’) is Full Professor in regional, urban and environmental economics, and economic geography, and, Chair, Department of Regional Economics, Faculty of Economics, Free University, Amsterdam, The Netherlands. He holds a B.S. in econometrics and the Ph.D. in nonlinear mathematical programming, both from Erasmus University, Rotterdam. Professor Nijkamp’s research interests include plan evaluation, multicriteria analysis, regional and urban planning, transport systems analysis, mathematical modeling, technological innovation, and resource management. His distinguished appointments include past-president of the Regional Science Association Interna-tional; Chair, Network on European Communications and Transport Activity Research (NECTAR); Chair, Dutch Social Science Council; Member, Board of the Royal Dutch Academy; and Chair, Research School TRAIL. Professor Nijkamp is also a member of several journal editorial boards including Socio-Economic Planning Sciences, Economic Modelling, Annals of Regional Science, Environment and Planning C, Sistemi Urbani, Indian Journal of Regional Science, International Journal of Development Literature, Geographical Systems,andProject Appraisal.He is a Fellow of World Academy of Arts and Sciences, Royal Dutch Academy of Arts and Sciences, International Academy of Regional Development and Cooperation (Moscow), Holland Society of Business, and Winner, 1996 Dutch Spinoza Prize. Professor Nijkamp has authored or co-authored more than 50 books, including Meta-Analysis in Environmental Economics (Kluwer, 1997), The Economics of Complex Spatial Systems(Elsevier, 1998), andTransportation Planning and the Future(Wiley, 1998). His research has appeared in more than 200 articles in a wide variety of journals.
Necmi K. Avkiran (‘‘Investigating technical and scale efficiencies of Australian universities through data envelopment analysis’’) is Senior Lecturer, Department of Commerce, University of Queensland, Australia. He holds a B.A. from Bradford University, UK, an MBA from Boston College, Massachusetts, Graduate Diploma in education from La Trobe University, Australia, and the Ph.D. in banking from Victoria University of Technology, Australia. Professor Avkiran’s research interests focus on performance measurement in the service sector. His work has appeared in such journals as Journal of Banking and Finance, International Journal of Human Resource Management, Personnel Review, Asia Pacific Journal of Human Resources, Scientometrics, International Journal of Bank Marketing (UK), The Australian Banker, and Corporate Management. He has published a recent book,Productivity Analysis in the Services Sector with Data Envelopment Analysis (Kluwer, 2001). Professor Avkiran’s professional memberships include Australian Society for Operations Research, Academy of Management, Australian Institute of Banking and Finance, Accounting Association of Australian and New Zealand, and Asia-Pacific Finance Association.
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