Publications

Peer-reviewed Journal Articles

Kady, R., Gwynne, S., & Davis, J. (2009). The incorporation of empirical crawling data into the buildingEXODUS model. Journal of Safety Science, 47, 97-104.

 Kady, R., & Davis, J. (2009). The effect of occupant characteristics on crawling speed in evacuation. Fire Safety Journal, 44, 451-457.

Kady, R., & Davis, J. (2009). The impact of exit route designs on evacuation time for crawling occupants. Journal of Fire Sciences, 27 (5), 481-493.

Yasin, M., Czuchry, A., & Kady, R. (2008). Re-engineering organizational practices and processes to improve the customer focus of a marketing organization. Advances in Competitiveness Research, 16 (1&2), 47-61.

Book Chapters

Kady, R. & Davis, J. (2008). Ergonomics and Human Factors Engineering: Cost analysis and budgeting. In Joel M. Haight (Ed.), The Safety Professionals Handbook: Technical Applications. Des Plaines, IL: American Society of Safety Engineers.

Peer-reviewed Conference Papers

Gwynne, S., Kady, R., Davis, J. (2007). Development and validation of crawling model in existing computational egress tool. Proceedings of the 11^th International Conference on Fire Science and Technology (Interflam 2007). London, UK, September 3-5, 2007.

Kady, R., & Davis, J. (2007). Helping safety managers make project decisions in the workplace: The weighted scoring decision making approach. Proceedings of the American Society of Safety Engineers Professional Development Conference (Safety 2007). Orlando, FL, June 25-27, 2007.

Kady, R., Davis , J., & Blackburn , T. (2006). Improving occupant characteristics in performance-based evacuation modeling. Proceedings of the Human Factors and Ergonomics Society 50^th Annual Meeting. San Francisco, CA, October 16-20, 2006.

Kady, R., Garrett, A., Agarwal, R., Dozier, G., & Umphress, D. (2006). The application of evolutionary computation in evacuation planning. Proceedings of the 9th International IEEE Conference on Intelligent Transportation Systems. Toronto, Canada, September, 17-20.

Garrett, A., Carnahan, B., Kady, R., Davis , J., Dozier, G., SanSoucie, M.P., Hull , P.V., & Tinker, M.L. (2006). Evacuation planning via evolutionary computation. The IEEE World Congress on Computational Intelligence. Vancouver, BC, Canada, July, 16-21. Note: Session best paper award.

Kady, R. (2006). Evacuation modeling: Development, characteristics, and limitations. Proceedings of the 4th Annual Regional National Occupational Research Agenda (NORA) for Young/New Investigators. University of Utah, Salt Lake City, UT, April 20-21.

Czuchry, A., Kady, R., & Yasin, M. (2005). Enhancing the customer orientation of operational practices: A field study. 36^th Annual Meeting of the Decision Sciences Institute, San Francisco, CA, November 19-23.