who we are
The Center for Systems Science and Engineering (CSSE) is a research collective housed within the Department of Civil and Systems Engineering (CaSE) at Johns Hopkins University (JHU). Our faculty, researchers, and students work on a range of complex and interdisciplinary problems, united by the goal to better understand and improve societal, health, and technological systems for everyone.
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- Tracking COVID-19
- An Open-Source Dataset on Dietary Behaviors and DASH Eating Plan Optimization Constraints
- How Mobility Patterns Drive Disease Spread: A Case Study Using Public Transit Passenger Card Travel Data
- Travel Surveillance and Genomics Uncover a Hidden Zika Outbreak during the Waning Epidemic
- Discovering the Hidden Community Structure of Public Transportation Networks
- A dynamic neural network model for predicting risk of Zika in real time
- G Measles resurgence in the USA: how international travel compounds vaccine resistance
- Climate Change, Superstorms, and Civil Engineering
- G A decision-support framework to optimize border control for global outbreak mitigation
- G A dynamic neural network model for real-time prediction of the Zika epidemic in the Americas
- S Modeling Coordination between Renewables and Grid: Policies to Mitigate Distribution Grid Constraints Using Residential PV-Battery Systems
- S The future of natural gas infrastructure development in the United states
- North American Natural Gas Model (NANGAM)
- Understanding the Interactions of Food, Energy, Water Systems
- G Modeling the relative role of human mobility, land-use and climate factors on dengue outbreak emergence in Sri Lanka
- Tak Applications of systems modelling in obesity research
- G Estimation of sparse O–D matrix accounting for demand volatility
- The Future of Natural Gas Infrastructure in the US
- S Shocks, seasonality, and disaggregation: Modelling food security through the integration of agricultural, transportation, and economic systems
- S Sensitivity and covariance in stochastic complementarity problems with an application to the North American natural gas markets
- Data Mining for Global Bicycling Trends
- Patient Flow and Scheduling in Hospitals
- G Policy implications of incorporating distance constrained electric vehicles into the traffic network design problem
- A Human-Centric Engineering Discipline
- K Robust inverse optimization
- The Food Distributed Extendable Complementarity Model (Food-DECO)
- S An exact solution method for binary equilibrium problems with compensation and the power market uplift problem
- G A Strategic User Equilibrium for Independently Distributed Origin-Destination Demands
- G Two Methods to Calibrate the Total Travel Demand and Variability for a Regional Traffic Network
- S Spatial associations in global household bicycle ownership
- The North American Crude Oil Model: A Framework for Multimodal Transport
- S Multimodal Transportation Flows in Energy Networks with an Application to Crude Oil Markets
- G Inferring the risk factors behind the geographical spread nd transmission of Zika in the Americas
- Tak A predictive model of rats’ calorie intake as a function of diet energy density
- G International travelers and genomics uncover a ‘hidden’ Zika outbreak
- G Discovering the hidden community structure of public transportation networks
- G Identifying Critical Components of a Public Transit System for Outbreak Control
- S Evaluating Nurse Staffing Levels in Perianesthesia Care Units Using Discrete Event Simulation
- Tak Evolution of vulnerability of communities facing repeated hazards
- Tak Improving health systems performance in low- and middle-income countries: a system dynamics model of the pay-for-performance initiative in Afghanistan
- Tak Examining the structure and behavior of Afghanistan’s routine childhood immunization system using system dynamics modeling
- G A generalized framework for the estimation of edge infection probabilities
- S Evaluating the role of electricity storage by considering short-term operation in long-term planning
- Tak Taking dietary habits into account: A computational method for modeling food choices that goes beyond price
- G Translating Real-Time Infectious Disease Modeling into Routine Public Health Practice
- S Analysis of the global wood‐chip trade’s response to renewable energy policies using a spatial price equilibrium model
- G Inuenza A H5N1 and H7N9 in China: A spatial risk analysis
- G Vector status of Aedes species determines geographical risk of autochthonous Zika virus establishment
- A step towards sustainable bioenergy policies
- S Modeling market power in the U.S. shale gas market
- G Multiscale Network Model for Evaluating Global Outbreak Control Strategies
- Patterns in Bicycle Ownership Among Neighboring Countries.
- S Evaluating the Role of Electricity Storage by Considering Short-Term Operation in Long-Term Planning
- G Zika virus in Pakistan: the tip of the iceberg?
- S North American Natural Gas Model: Impact of cross-border trade with Mexico
- Tak Simulated Models Suggest That Price per Calorie Is the Dominant Price Metric That Low-Income Individuals Use for Food Decision Making
- G Zika: the cost of neglect
- G Risk of global spread of Middle East respiratory syndrome coronavirus (MERS-CoV) via the air transport network
- G Quantified degree of poultry exposure differs for human cases of avian influenza H5N1 and H7N9
- S Dynamic Climate Policy with Both Strategic and Non-strategic Agents: Taxes Versus Quantities
- S Auction-based allocation of shared electricity storage resources through physical storage rights
- S Price-based unit commitment electricity storage arbitrage with piecewise linear price-effects
- G Organ-to-Cell-Scale Health Assessment Using Geographical Information System Approaches with Multibeam Scanning Electron Microscopy
- G Finding Outbreak Trees in Networks with Limited Information
- S Determining energy and climate market policy using multiobjective programs with equilibrium constraints
- The Science of Scarcity
- Clinical Trials as Both Science and Art
- S Mitigating environmental and public-safety risks of United States Crude-by-Rail Transport
- O Network modeling and optimization for energy and sustainable transit
- S Price-based unit commitment electricity storage arbitrage with piecewise linear price-effects
- The golden age of implementation
- S Auction-based allocation of shared electricity storage resources through physical storage rights
- Tak Modeling the Impact of School-Based Universal Depression Screening on Additional Service Capacity Needs: A System Dynamics Approach
- S An exact solution method for binary equilibrium problems with compensation and the power market uplift problem
- S Encyclopedia of Operations Research & Management Science 3rd Edition
- Addressing gaps and impediments of the clinical trials system
- G Global risk of Zika virus depends critically on vector status of Aedes albopictus
- G Bilevel Optimization Model for the Development of Real-Time Strategies to Minimize Epidemic Spreading Risk in Air Traffic Networks
- G Highly Pathogenic Avian Influenza Virus, Midwestern United States
- G New Horizontal Equity Measure for Ramp Meters
- G Spatial Aggregation Method for Anonymous Surveys
- S Tracking global bicycle ownership patterns
- K Interactive visual guidance for automated stereotactic radiosurgery treatment planning
- S Fuel price impacts and compliance costs associated with the Renewable Fuel Standard (RFS)
- Tak Agent-Based Simulation of Building Evacuation after an Earthquake: Coupling Human Behavior with Structural Response
- G A Learning Model for Traffic Assignment: Incorporating Bayesian Inference within the Strategic User Equilibrium Model
- Towards a bicycle-friendly transit future
- Seeking solutions to issues in clinical trials
- S Cardiac Catheterization Lab Inpatient Forecast Tool: A Prospective Evaluation
- S Efficient automated schematic map drawing using multiobjective mixed-integer programming
- Who will solve all our problems?
- S Real-time prediction of inpatient length of stay for discharge prioritization
- Ethical implications of clinical trials: a global perspective
- K Skeletonization
- S A mixed complementarity model for the US biofuel market with federal policy interventions
- Stakeholder input a necessity for successful model design and development
- Tak Incorporating Systems Science Principles into the Development of Obesity Prevention Interventions: Principles, Benefits, and Challenges
- S The question of Sudan: A hydroeconomic optimization model for the Sudanese Nile
- North America’s crude-by-rail problem
- S Solving mixed-integer robust optimization problems with interval uncertainty using Benders decomposition
- G The Global Maritime Container Network: An Application of Conventional Transportation Modelling Techniques
- G Incorporating departure time choice into high-occupancy/toll (HOT) algorithm evaluation
- G A Maximum Likelihood Estimation of Trip Tables for the Strategic User Equilibrium Model
- S Value of Improved Information about Forest Protection Values, with Application to Rainforest Valuation
- S Ranking Vaccines: Applications of a Prioritization Software Tool: Phase III: Use Case Studies and Data Framework
- Tak Examining social norm impacts on obesity and eating behaviors among US school children based on agent-based mode
- Modeling clinical trials
- Drugs: price, cost and willingness to pay
- S Long-run carbon emission implications of energy-intensive infrastructure investments with a retrofit option
- G A Systematic Review of the Comparative Epidemiology of Avian and Human Influenza A H5N1 and H7N9 – Lessons and Unanswered Questions
- G Inferring Contagion Patterns in Social Contact Networks Using a Maximum Likelihood Approach
- S Dynamic Climate Policy with both Strategic and Non-strategic Agents: Taxes versus Quantities
- K Automated treatment planning for a dedicated multi-source intra-cranial radiosurgery treatment unit accounting for overlapping structures and dose homogeneity
- S Solving Discretely-Constrained Nash-Cournot Games with an Application to Power Markets
- G Inferring Contagion Patterns in Social Contact Networks with Limited Infection Data
- S An SOS1-based approach for solving MPECs with a natural gas market application
- S Solving Discretely Constrained Mixed Linear Complementarity Problems with Applications in Energy
- S On improving normal boundary intersection method for generation of Pareto frontier
- G A Predictive Spatial Model to Quantify the Risk of Air-Travel-Associated Dengue Importation into the United States and Europe
- S Cartelization in gas markets: Studying the potential for a ‘Gas OPEC
- S A modified Benders decomposition method for efficient robust optimization under interval uncertainty
- S Anthropocene streams and base-level controls from historic dams in the unglaciated mid-Atlantic region, USA
- S Infrastructure Investments under Uncertainty with the Possibility of Retrofit: Theory and Simulations
- Solving Two-Level S Optimization Problems with Applications to Robust Design and Energy Markets
