Wilpen L. Gorr
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Professor of Public Policy and Management Information Systems |
Professional Background
Wil Gorr has been on the Heinz School faculty since 1985. He serves as the faculty chair of the Master of Science in Public Policy and Management program and is past editor of the International Journal of Forecasting. Prior to joining the Heinz School faculty, he was an associate professor at what is now the John Glenn School of Public Affairs at The Ohio State University. He obtained his Ph.D. from the School of Urban and Public Affairs, the Heinz School’s predecessor, and obtained his master and bachelor degrees from the Pennsylvania State University. He is a member of the Association of Public Policy and Management and the International Institute of Forecasters.
Honors
In 2005, Wil Gorr was inducted as a Fellow of the International Institute of Forecasters. He was the recipient of the Best Paper Award from the American Information Systems Society for "ServiceNet: An Agent-Based Framework for E-Government" in August 2001, and has received numerous teaching awards at Carnegie Mellon and at Ohio State University.
Research
Gorr's research interests include geographic information systems, predictive models, and management science models applied to public sector problems. His current projects include developing leading indicator forecast models for law enforcement, decision support systems for facility location decisions, and information systems for support of policy and planning in organizations. His publications have appeared in Management Science, Geographical Analysis, The International Journal of Forecasting, Criminology, and other leading journals. He has received funding from the National Institute of Justice, Centers for Disease Control, the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation, and other organizations.
Teaching
Gorr teaches core courses in the MSPPM program in the information technology area. He also teaches geographic information systems courses and project courses. He and his colleague, Kristen Kurland, have recently written four geographic information systems textbooks.
Community Service
Wil Gorr is the Founder of InfoLink, a school-to-work program for inner-city high school students conducted at Carnegie Mellon (1994–2002). He is the page master of the Crime Forecasting page of Scott Armstrong's Principles of Forecasting Web site, and the web master of the Jubilee Soup Kitchen web site, developed by Heinz School students in a project course.
Publications
Cohen, J., S. Garman, and W. L. Gorr, “Empirical Calibration of Time Series Monitoring Methods Using Receiver Operating Characteristic Curves,” International Journal of Forecasting, to appear.
Cohen, J., W. L. Gorr, and A. Olligschlaeger, “Leading Indicators and Spatial Interactions: A Crime Forecasting Model for Proactive Police Deployment” Geographical Analysis, January 2007, Vol. 39, Issue1, pp. 105-127.
Gorr, W.L. and S.A. McKay, "Application of Tracking Signals to Detect Time Series Pattern Changes in Crime Mapping Systems," in F. Wang [ed.] Crime Mapping and Beyond: GIS Applications in Crime Studies, Hershey, PA: Idea Group Publishing, 2005.
Johnson, M., W.L. Gorr, and S. Roehrig, "Location of Elderly Service Facilities," Annals of Operations Research, Vol. 136 (1), January 2005.
Cohen, J., W.L. Gorr, and P. Singh, "Estimating Intervention Effects in Varying Risk Settings: Do Police Raids Reduce Illegal Drug Dealing at Nuisance Bars?," Criminology, Vol. 41 (2), May 2003, pp. 257-292.
Johnson, M., W.L. Gorr, and S. Roehrig, "Location/Allocation/Routing for Home-Delivered Meals Provision: Model and Solution Approaches," International Journal of Industrial Engineering, Special Issue on Facility Layout and Location, Vol. 9 No. 1 (2002), pp. 45 - 56.
Anderson, B.B., A. Bajaj, and W.L. Gorr, "An Estimation of the Relative Effects of External Software Quality Factors on Senior IS Managers' Evaluation of Computing Architectures," Journal of Systems & Software, Vol. 61 (2002), pp. 59-75.
Gorr, W.L., A. Olligschlaeger, and Y. Thompson, "Short-term Forecasting of Crime", International Journal of Forecasting, Vol. 19, No. 4 (2003).
Gorr, W.L., M. Johnson, and S. Roehrig, "Spatial Decision Support System for Home-Delivered Services," Geographical Analysis, Vol. 3(2001), pp. 181-197.
Duncan, G., W.L. Gorr, and J. Szczypula, "Forecasting Analogous Time Series," S. Armstrong [ed.], Forecasting Principles (2001) Kluwer Academic Publishers.
Getis, A., P. Drummey, J. Gartin, W.L. Gorr, K. Harris, P. Rogerson, D.Stoe, and R. Wright, "Geographic Information Science and Crime Analysis," Journal of the Urban and Regional Information Systems Association, Vol. 12, No.2 (2000), pp 7-14.
