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Journal Articles (Published or In Press):

MacKenzie, C., Chapman, C., and Sengupta, R., in press (2011), Spatial patterns of illegal resource extraction in Kibale National Park, Uganda. Environmental Conservation.

Samal, A.R., Sengupta, R., and Fifarek, R., in press (2011), Modeling spatial anisotropy of gold concentration data using GIS-based interpolated maps and variogram analysis: implications for structural control of mineralization. Journal of Earth System Science.

Bonnell, T., Sengupta, R., Chapman, C., and Goldberg, T., 2010, An agent-based model of red colobus resources and disease dynamics implicates key resource sites as hot spots of disease transmission. Ecological Modelling, 221(20): 2491-2500.

Jackson, J., Forest, B., and Sengupta, R., 2008. Agent-Based Simulation of Urban Residential Dynamics and Land Rent Change in a Gentrifying Area of Boston. Transactions in GIS, 12(4): 475-491.

 

Jacob, A.L., Vaccaro, I., Sengupta, R., Hartter, J., and Chapman, C., 2008. Integrating landscapes that have experienced rural depopulation and ecological homogenization into tropical conservation planning. Tropical Conservation Science, 1(4): 307-320. [PDF]

 

Sengupta, R., and Sieber, R., 2007, Geospatial Agents, Agents Everywhere.... Transactions in GIS, 11(4): 483 -506.

 

Sengupta, R., Rosenshein, L., Gilbert, M., and Weiller, C., 2007, Ecoregional Dominance in Spatial Distribution of Avian Influenza (H5N1) Outbreaks [letter]. Emerging Infectious Diseases, 13(8): 1269-1271. [online version]

 

Sengupta, R., Lant, C., Kraft, S., Beaulieu, J., Peterson, W., and Loftus, T., 2005, Modeling CRP Enrolment using Agents within Spatial Decision Support Systems: An Example from Southern Illinois. Environment and Planning B, 32(6): 821-834. [PDF]

 

Sengupta, R., Middleton, B., Chen, Y., Zuro, M., and Hartman, H., 2005, Propagule deposition and landscape characteristics of source forests of Rhizophora mangle in coastal landscapes in Florida. Landscape Ecology, 20 (1): 63-72. [PDF]

 

Most, M., Sengupta, R., and Burgener, M., 2004, Spatial Scale and Population Assignment Choices in Environmental Justice Analyses. The Professional Geographer 56(4): 574-586. [PDF]

 

Heine, R., Lant, C., and Sengupta, R., 2004, Development and Comparison of Approaches for Automated Extraction of Stream Channel Networks. Annals of the Association of American Geographers, 94(3): 447-490. [PDF]

 

Sengupta, R., and Chen, Y., 2004, Hybrid Spatio-Temporal Data Model and Structure (HST-DMS) for Efficient Storage and Retrieval of Land Use Information. Transactions in GIS, 8(3): 351-366. [PDF]

 

Larson, B., and Sengupta, R., 2004. A Spatial Decision Support System to Identify Species-Specific Critical Habitats Based on Size and Accessibility using US GAP Data. Environmental Modelling and Software, 19(1): 7-18. [PDF].

 

Sengupta, R., and Bennett, D. A, 2003. Agent-based Modeling Environment for Spatial Decision Support. International Journal of Geographical Information Science, 17 (2): 157-180. [PDF]

 

Sengupta, R., Bennett, D. A., Kraft, S. E., and Beaulieu, J., 2000. Evaluating the Impact of Policy-induced Landuse Management Practices on Non-point Source Pollution using a Spatial Decision Support System: A simulation of the Big Creek Basin. Water International, 25 (3): 437-445.[PDF]

 

Book Chapters (Published or In Press):

 

Chapman, C.A., Huffman, M.A., Ryan, S.J., Sengupta, R. and Goldberg, T. (2008). Ways forward in the study of primate parasite ecology in Primate parasite ecology: the dynamics and study of host-parasite relationships. Huffman, M.A. and Chapman, C.A. (eds). Cambridge Studies in Biological and Evolutionary Anthropology. Cambridge University Press, UK, pp. 487-505 [ISBN-13: 9780521872461].

 

Sengupta, R., 2006. Simulation Modelling within Collaborative Spatial Decision Support Systems using cause-effect models and Software Agents in Collaborative GIS (S. Dragicevic and S. Balram, Eds.): Idea Group Publishing, Hershey, PA, pp. 134-149 [ISBN 1-5914-0846-6].

 

Samal, A.R., Fifarek, R., and Sengupta, R., 2005. Geostatistical Investigation of Elemental Enrichment in Hydrothermal Deposits in Quantitative Geology and Geostatistics, Vol. 14 (O. Leuangthong and C.V. Deutsch, Eds.) Springer: New York, NY, pp. 491-500 [ISBN: 1-4020-3515-2].

 

Sengupta, R., and Bennett, D. A., 2001. Making Data Rich Depositories of Geographical Data Usable with Intelligent System Technologies in Geographic Data Mining and Knowledge Discovery (H. Miller and J. Han, Eds.). Taylor and Francis: Levittown, PA, pp. 110-128 [ISBN: 0-4152-3369-0].

 

Bennett, D. A., Sengupta, R., Beaulieu, J., and Kraft, S. E., 2000. Integrating Simulation Models and Geographic Information For Environmental Problem Solving in Spatial Information for Landuse Management (Michael. J. Hill and Richard J. Aspinall, Eds.). Blackwell Publishers: Blackwood, NJ, pp. 69-80 [ISBN: 9-0569-9315-1].

 

Bennett, D. A., Wade, G. A., and Sengupta, R., 1999. Geographical Modeling in Heterogeneous Computing Environments in Interoperating Geographic Information Systems (M. Goodchild, M. Egenhofer, R. Fegeas, and C. Kottman, Eds.). Kluwer Academic Publishers: Dordrecht, Netherlands, pp. 149-164 [ISBN: 0-7923-8436-9].

 

Conference Proceedings (Papers and Extended Abstracts):

 

Sengupta, R., 2005, Economics of Buffer Zones in Agrarian watersheds for improved water quality and other ecosystem services. Proceedings of the XII World Water Congress, New Delhi, India: International Water Resources Association, Carbondale, Illinois, USA (unpaged CD-ROM) Paper.

 

Coggan, C., Larson, R., Enright, P., and Sengupta, R., 2005. Application of SWAT to assess water quality improvements resulting from buffer strips. Proceedings of the XII World Water Congress, New Delhi, India: International Water Resources Association, Carbondale, Illinois, USA (unpaged CD-ROM) Paper.

 

Samal, A., Fifarek, R., and Sengupta, R., 2005. The Spatial Pattern of Trace Elements Relative to Gold Concentrations in an Epithermal Gold Deposit. Proceedings of IAMG 05: GIS and Spatial Analysis (Vol. 1: p. 458-463), Toronto, Canada: International Association for Mathematical Geology, Kingston, Ontario, Canada.Paper.

 

Sengupta, R., Beaulieu, J., and Kraft, S., 2003, Assisting Decision-Makers Manage Compensatory Payments to Preserve Water Quality in Agricultural Watersheds through modeling and simulation. Proceedings of the XIth World Water Congress, Madrid, Spain (11th-9th October, 2003): International Water Resources Association, Carbondale, Illinois 62901, USA.[Paper].

 

Sengupta, R., Beaulieu, J., Kraft, S., Loftus, L., Shcherbanuik, M., and Soman, S., 2002, Modeling Trade-Offs between Water Quality and Profits in Agricultural Watersheds. Water for Human Survival: IWRA Regional Conference, New Delhi, India: Central Board of Irrigation and Power, Malcha Marg, New Delhi 110 021, India.[Paper].

 

Sengupta, R., Loftus, T., and Shcherbaniuk, M., 2002. Agent-based modeling of human decision-making behavior within Spatial Decision Support Systems. GIScience 2002: Second International Conference on Geographic Information Science, Boulder, CO: National Center for Geographic Information Analysis (NCGIA), University of California-Santa Barbara, CA.[Abstract].

 

Radhakrishnan, P., and Sengupta, R., 2002. Groundwater modeling in GIS by integrating ArcView 3.2, MODFLOW and MODPATH. 2002 ESRI Users Conference (San Diego, CA).[Paper].

 

Sengupta, R., Bennett, D., and Armstrong, M. P., 2000. Agent-oriented Modeling Environment for Spatial Decision Support. GIScience 2000: First International Conference on Geographic Information Science (Savannah, GA).[Abstract].

 

Armstrong, M. P., Bennett, D., Densham, P., and Sengupta, R., 2000. Theoretical Perspectives on Agent-Oriented Geographic Information Management and Analysis. GIScience 2000: First International Conference on Geographic Information Science (Savannah, GA).[Abstract].

 

Wade, G.A., D.A. Bennett, and R. Sengupta. 1997. An interactive distributed architecture for geographical modeling. Proceedings of Auto-Carto 13, Seattle, WA: American Congress on Surveying and Mapping, Bethesda, MD. [Paper].

 

Sengupta, R., and S. Bhattacharya.  1997. Zip codes for direct marketing modeling using GIS. Proceedings of AIS 97 Americas Conference, Indianapolis, IN: Association of Information Systems, Atlanta, GA.[Abstract].

 

Bennett, D., R. Sengupta, and G. Wade. 1997. Geographical Modeling in Heterogeneous Computing Environments. Proceedings of the International Conference and Workshop on InterOperating Geographic Information Systems (Interop 97 - Santa Barbara, CA.).[Paper].

 

Sengupta, R., D.A. Bennett, and G.A. Wade. 1996. Agent mediated links between GIS and spatial modeling software using a model definition language. Proceedings of GIS/LIS 96, Denver, CO: American Congress on Surveying and Mapping, Bethesda, MD.[Paper].

 

Conference Presentations:

 

Sengupta, R., and Bonnell, T., 2008, Emerging Infectious Diseases and Agent-based Models: Moving Epidemiology from Analyzing Pattern to Simulating Process. Spatial Knowledge and Information (SKI) Canada, Fernie, BC, Canada (Feb 15-17, 2008).

 

Sengupta, R., 2006, Agents in a Virtual Watershed: Modeling agricultural policy response. Annual Meeting of the Association of American Geographers, Chicago, IL (March 7-11, 2006).

 

Sengupta, R., 2005, CRP Adoption using agents: the Virtual Watershed Project. West Lakes Division Meeting, Association of American Geographers, Iowa City, IA (November 3-5, 2005).

 

Sengupta, R., and Sieber, R., 2004, Agent, Agents Everywhere... Association of American Geographers Annual Meeting, Philadelphia, PA [PDF of Presentation]

 

Sengupta, R., 2003, Modeling Acceptance of Ecosystem Service Payments in Decision-Support Systems using Software Agents. 2003 Open Meeting of the Human Dimensions of Global Environmental Change Research Community, Montreal, Canada: CIESIN Columbia University and MSE McGill University.

 

Sengupta, R., Loftus, T., and Shcherbanuik, M., 2003, Agent-based modeling of human decision-making behavior within Spatial Decision Support Systems, Association of American Geographers Annual Meeting, New Orleans, LA.

 

Sengupta, R., 2002, Assisting decision-makers manage CRP payments in agricultural watersheds through modeling and simulation. Association of American Geographers Annual Meeting, Los Angeles, CA.

 

Sengupta, R., Radhakrishnan, P., Loftus, T., and Bennett, D., 2001, SARs: Software Agents that represent stakeholders at the bargaining table. Association of American Geographers Annual Meeting, New York City, NY.

 

Sengupta, R., and Bennett, D., 2000, Analysis on a platter: agents that assist in the integration of data and analytical tools. Association of American Geographers Annual Meeting, Pittsburg, PA.

 

 

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Last updated 13/03/2008