Published scholarly work
* Student advised by Esther Jose.
Journal articles
2026
Jose, E., Oladzad, N., Sudit, D., Sudit, M., & Batta, R. Kriging-informed coverage sampling: An integer programming approach to optimizing information collection. Geographical Analysis, 58(3), e70044. https://doi.org/10.1111/gean.70044 Code and data: https://github.com/estjos/KICS
Dasdemir, E., Jose, E., & Batta, R. Scheduling and routing with degradation-triggered job arrivals: An application to forest firefighting with an unmanned aerial vehicle fleet. European Journal of Operational Research, 330(3), 715–732. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ejor.2025.09.019 Open-access manuscript: https://arxiv.org/abs/2608.18140
2025
Jose, E., Mukherjee, S., & Swaminathan, J. Evaluating socioeconomic factors for crime against women in developing countries: A data-centric statistical learning approach. Socio-Economic Planning Sciences, 101, 102255. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.seps.2025.102255
2024
Agarwal, P., Hunt, K., Jose, E., & Zhuang, J. Shutdown and compliance decisions in the face of a viral pandemic: A game between governments and citizens. Decision Support Systems, 178, 114128. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.dss.2023.114128
2023
Jose, E., Agarwal, P., & Zhuang, J. A data-driven analysis and optimization of the impact of prescribed fire programs on wildfire risk in different regions of the USA. Natural Hazards, 118(1), 181–207. https://doi.org/10.1007/s11069-023-05997-w
Jose, E., Agarwal, P., Zhuang, J., & Swaminathan, J. A multi-criteria decision making approach to evaluating the performance of Indian railway zones. Annals of Operations Research, 325(2), 1133–1168. https://doi.org/10.1007/s10479-022-04866-2
2021
Song, C., Yu, Q., Jose, E., Zhuang, J., & Geng, H. A hybrid recommendation approach for viral food based on online reviews. Foods, 10(8), 1801. https://doi.org/10.3390/foods10081801
Conference papers
2026
Alaedini, A.*, Hornbuckle, B. K., & Jose, E. From satellite pixels to township boundaries: A study on soil moisture estimation for Iowa farms. Proceedings of the IISE Annual Conference & Expo 2026, Abstract ID 16348.
2025
Jose, E., Batta, R., Sudit, M., Sudit, D., Crassidis, J. L., Nebelecky, C., et al. Optimizing potential information gain from satellites over space and time for heterogeneous information fusion. AIAA SciTech Forum 2025, paper 0757. https://doi.org/10.2514/6.2025-0757
2024
Jose, E., Batta, R., & Sudit, M. Situational assessment using indicator kriging for fleet tracking and prediction. 27th International Conference on Information Fusion, 1–8. https://doi.org/10.23919/FUSION59988.2024.10706395
2023
Swaminathan, J., Jose, E., Krishna, G., Medina-Cárdenas, Y., & Rico-Bautista, D. Effective supply chain during natural disasters. International Conference on WorldS4, 231–241. Springer Nature Singapore.
Reports and book chapters
2025
Jose, E., Lammers, W., & Gerdes, R. Support for prescribed burning in Midwestern states: Results from an online experiment. Natural Hazards Center Weather Ready Research Report Series, Report 15. https://hazards.colorado.edu/weather-ready-research/support-for-prescri…
2023
Becker, J., Jose, E., Oladzad-Abbasabady, N., & Batta, R. Search and rescue over uncertain terrain in humanitarian and military contexts: Capturing emerging targets and performing reconnaissance. In Tutorials in Operations Research: Advancing the Frontiers of OR/MS: From Methodologies to Applications, 285–313. INFORMS.
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