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Journal Articles

Chan, T.C.Y., Demirtas, D., Kwon, R.H.* “Optimizing the Deployment of Public Access Defibrillators”, Management Science, 2016. Published online in articles in advance.(received SPPSN Best Paper Award, 2nd place, INFORMS Annual Conference, 2012).

Barutçuoğlu, A., Demirtaş, D., Dilan, B., Düzgün, R., Köksalan, M., Savaşaneril S.* “Vehicle Dispatch and Distribution Center Location Problem for an Automotive Firm”, Journal of Industrial Engineering, 21(1): 4-16, 2010. (in Turkish)

Sun, C.L.F., Demirtas, D., Brooks, S.C., Morrison, L.J., Chan, T.C.Y. “Optimizing Public Defibrillator Locations to Overcome Spatial and Temporal Accessibility Barriers”. Submitted.

Demirtas, D., Brooks, S.C., Morrison L.J., Chan, T.C.Y. “Spatiotemporal Stability of Out-of-Hospital Cardiac Arrests”. In preparation.

Lee, M., Demirtas, D., Buick, J.E., Ng A., Feldman, M.J., Cheskes S., Morrison, L.J., Chan, T.C.Y. “Public Cardiac Arrest Characteristics in Enclosed Pedestrian Networks”. In preparation.

Demirtas, D. “The Value of Optimizing Public Access Defibrillator Locations: Comparing a Data-driven Optimization Approach to the Current Deployment”. In preparation.

Theses

Demirtas, D., “Facility Location under Uncertainty and Spatial Data Analytics in Healthcare”, PhD Thesis, University of Toronto, 2016.

Demirtaş, D., “Worst-Case Complexity Analyses for the Dobson-Kalish Optimal Pricing Algorithm and its Relatives”, MMath Thesis, University of Waterloo, 2010.

* Authors are listed alphabetically.

PRESENTATIONS

Note: Presenters are underlined.

Demirtas, D., Brooks, S.C., Morrison, L.J., Chan, T.C.Y. “Spatiotemporal Stability of Public Location Cardiac Arrests” (poster), National Association of EMS Physicians (NAEMSP) Annual Meeting, San Diego, USA, 2016.

Sun, C.L.F., Demirtas, D., Brooks, S.C., Morrison, L.J., Chan, T.C.Y. “True Public Access Defibrillator Coverage is Overestimated” (poster), NAEMSP Annual Meeting, San Diego, USA, 2016.

Sun, C.L.F., Demirtas, D., Brooks, S.C., Morrison, L.J., Chan, T.C.Y. “Spatiotemporal AED Location Optimization” (poster), NAEMSP Annual Meeting, San Diego, USA, 2016.

Lee, M., Demirtas, D., Buick, J.E., Ng A., Feldman, M.J., Cheskes S., Morrison, L.J., Chan, T.C.Y. “Public Cardiac Arrest Characteristics in Enclosed Pedestrian Networks”, NAEMSP Annual Meeting, San Diego, USA, 2016.

Demirtas, D., Brooks, S.C., Morrison, L.J., Chan, T.C.Y. “Spatiotemporal Stability of Public Location Cardiac Arrests” (poster), American Heart Association (AHA) Scientific Sessions, Orlando, USA, 2015.

Sun, C.L.F., Demirtas, D., Brooks, S.C., Morrison, L.J., Chan, T.C.Y. “True Public Access Defibrillator Coverage is Overestimated”, AHA Scientific Sessions, Orlando, USA, 2015.

Sun, C.L.F., Demirtas, D., Brooks, S.C., Morrison, L.J., Chan, T.C.Y. “Spatiotemporal AED Location Optimization” (poster), AHA Scientific Sessions, Orlando, USA, 2015.

Lee, M., Demirtas, D., Buick, J.E., Ng A., Feldman, M.J., Cheskes S., Morrison, L.J., Chan, T.C.Y. “Public Cardiac Arrest Characteristics in Enclosed Pedestrian Networks” (poster), AHA Scientific Sessions, Orlando, USA, 2015.

Demirtas, D., Kwon, R.H, Chan, T.C.Y. “Spatial Analysis of Cardiac Arrests”, INFORMS Annual Conference, San Francisco, USA, 2014.

Demirtas, D., Kwon, R.H, Chan, T.C.Y. “Robust Index Tracking with Ellipsoidal Uncertainty”, Canadian Operations Research Society (CORS) Annual Conference, Ottawa, Canada, 2014.

Demirtas, D., Chan, T.C.Y., Kwon, R.H.“Where to place AEDs? : Using statistics and optimization to find optimal AED locations”, Resuscitation in Motion (RIM) Conference, Toronto, Canada, 2014.

Demirtas, D., Chan, T.C.Y., Kwon, R.H.“Where should we locate defibrillators? : A challenging and exciting OR problem”, 4th Annual Toronto Operations Research Challenge (TORCH), Toronto, Canada, 2014.

Demirtas, D., Chan, T.C.Y., Kwon, R.H.“A Kernel Density Estimation Approach to Optimization of Public Access Defibrillator Locations”, INFORMS Annual Conference, Minneapolis, Minnesota, USA, 2013.

Demirtas, D., Chan, T.C.Y., Kwon, R.H.“Optimizing the Deployment of Public Access Defibrillators”, Operational Research Applied to Health Services (ORAHS) Annual Conference, Istanbul, Turkey, 2013.

Demirtas, D., Chan, T.C.Y., Kwon, R.H.“Optimizing the Deployment of Public Access Defibrillators”, Healthcare Operations and Information Management (HOIM) Summer School, Montreal, Canada, 2013.

Demirtas, D., Chan, T.C.Y., Kwon, R.H.“Optimizing the Deployment of Public Access Defibrillators”, INFORMS Annual Conference, Phoenix, Arizona, USA, 2012.

Demirtas, D., Chan, T.C.Y., Kwon, R.H. “Optimizing the Locations of Automated External Defibrillators”, Canadian Operations Research Society (CORS) Annual Conference, Niagara Falls, Canada, 2012.

Demirtas, D., Chan, T.C.Y., Kwon, R.H. “Automated External Defibrillator Location Problem in Public Settings”, Annual MIE Research Symposium, Toronto, Canada, 2012.