Burcu Balçık

Journal Articles:

• Rodríguez-Pereira, J., Balcik, B., Rancourt, M.E, Laporte, G. 2020. “A Cost Sharing Mechanism for Multi-Country Partnerships in Disaster Preparedness”, Production and Operations Management, forthcoming.
• Atsiz, E., Balcik, B., Gunnec, D., Uydasoglu Sevindik, B., “A Coordinated Repair Routing Problem for Post-Disaster Recovery of Interdependent Infrastructure Networks”, Annals of Operations Research, forthcoming.
• Pamukcu, D., Balcik, B. 2020. “A Multi-Cover Routing Problem for Planning Rapid Needs Assessment under Different Information Sharing Settings“,  OR Spectrum 42, 1-42.
• Balcik, B., Yanikoglu, I.  2020. “A Robust Optimization Approach for Humanitarian Needs Assessment Planning under Travel Time Uncertainty“,  European Journal of Operational Research 282(1), 40-57.
• Balcik, B., Silvestri, S., Rancourt, M.E, Laporte, G. 2019. “Collaborative Prepositioning Network Design for Regional Disaster Response“, Production and Operations Management, 28(10), 2431-2455.

                                   Received the Best Paper Award by the Humanitarian Operations and Crisis Management College (HOCM of the Production & Operations Management Society (POMS)

Press release by our collaborator CDEMA

• Battarra, M., Balcik, B., Xu, H., 2018. “Disaster preparedness using risk-assessment methods from earthquake engineering“, European Journal of Operational Research, 269 (2), 423-435.
• Balcik, B., 2017. “Site Selection and Vehicle Routing for Post-Disaster Rapid Needs Assessment”, Transportation Research Part E, 101, 30-58.
• Balcik, B., Bozkir, C.D.C., Kundakcioglu, O.E., 2017. “A literature review on inventory management in humanitarian supply chains“, Surveys in Operations Research and Management Science, 21 (2), 101-116.
• Noyan N., Balcik, B. and Atakan, B., 2016. “A Stochastic Optimization Model for Designing Last Mile Relief Networks”, Transportation Science, 50 (3), 1092-1113.
• Balcik, B., Iravani, S., Smilowitz, K., 2014. “Multi-Vehicle Sequential Resource Allocation for a Nonprofit Distribution System”, IIE Transactions, 46, 1279 – 1297.

An executive summary for this article appeared in November 2014 issue of the IIE Magazine.

• Balcik, B., Ak, D., 2014. “Supplier Selection for Framework Agreements in Humanitarian Relief”, Production and Operations Management, 23(6), 1028-1041.
• Huang, M., Smilowitz, K., Balcik, B., 2013. “A continuous approximation approach for assessment routing in disaster relief”, Transportation Research Part B: Methodological, 50, 20-41.
• Huang, M., Smilowitz, K., Balcik, B., 2012. “Models for relief routing: Equity, Efficiency, and Efficacy”, Transportation Research Part E: Logistics and Transportation Review, 48(1), 2-18.
• Balcik, B., Beamon, B., Krejci, C., Muramatsu, K., Ramirez, M., 2010. “Coordination in humanitarian relief chains: Practices, challenges and opportunities”, International Journal of Production Economics, 126(1), 22-34.

                       Web of Science Highly Cited Paper (received enough citations to place it in the top 1% of the academic field of Engineering based on a highly cited threshold for the field and publication year.)

• Balcik, B., Beamon, B., Smilowitz, K., 2008. “Last mile distribution for humanitarian relief chains”, Journal of Intelligent Transportation Systems, 12(2), 51-63.

This paper has been among the most read and cited papers of the journal.

• Balcik, B., Beamon, B., 2008. “Facility location in humanitarian relief”, International Journal of Logistics: Research and Applications, 11(2), 101-121.

This paper has been among the most read and cited papers of the journal.

• Beamon, B.,  Balcik, B. 2008. “Performance measurement in humanitarian relief chains”, International Journal of Public Sector Management, 21(1), 4-25.

Book Chapters/Proceedings:

• Gultekin, C., Olmez, B., Balcik, B. Ekici, A., Ozener, O.O. 2020. “A decomposition-based heuristic for a waste cooking oil collection problem”, Green transportation and new advances in Vehicle Routing Problems, Springer.
• Adsanver, B., Coban, E., Balcik, B., 2020. “Drone Routing for Post-disaster Damage Assessment”, Dynamics of Disasters, Springer.
• Balcik, B. Smilowitz, K., 2020. “Contributions to humanitarian and non-profit operations: equity impacts on modeling and solution approaches”, In: “Women in Industrial and Systems Engineering: Key Advances and Perspectives on Emerging Topics”, Springer, pp. 371-390.
• Balcik, B., 2016. “Selective routing for post-disaster needs assessments”, Dynamics of Disasters Key Concepts, Models, Algorithms, and Insights, Springer.
• Balcik, B., Iravani, S., Smilowitz, K., 2010. “A review of equity in nonprofit and public sector: A vehicle routing perspective”, Wiley Encyclopedia of Operations Research and Management Science.
•  Huang, M., Smilowitz, K., Balcik, B., 2011.“Models for relief routing: Equity, efficiency and efficacy”,  Procedia – Social and Behavioral Sciences; papers selected for the 19th International Symposium on Transportation and Traffic Theory at University of California, Berkeley, 17, 416–437.
• Balcik, B., Meral, S., 2004. “A multi-item integrated location/inventory model”, Proceedings of the 24th National Congress on Operational Research and Industrial Engineering, Adana, Turkey, June 2004.
• Tursel, D.E., Balcik, B., 2004. “A tabu search approach for a multi-item integrated location/inventory problem’”, Proceedings of the International Logistics Congress, Izmir, Turkey, December 2004.