Application of regional earthquake mitigation optimization

Computers and Operations Research

Volumn 34, Issue 8, 2007, Pages 2478-2494

  Dodo, Atsuhiro ^a   Davidson, Rachel A ^b   Xu, Ningxiong ^b   Nozick, Linda K ^b  

^a Swiss Reinsurance Company   (Japan)

^b School of Operations Research and Industrial Engineering   (United States)

Author keywords

Decomposition algorithms; Earthquake mitigation; Investment planning; Optimization

Indexed keywords

ALGORITHMS; EARTHQUAKES; INVESTMENTS; LINEAR PROGRAMMING; NUMERICAL METHODS; OPTIMIZATION; STRATEGIC PLANNING;

CASUALTIES; DECOMPOSITION ALGORITHMS; EARTHQUAKE MITIGATION; INVESTMENT PLANNING;

EARTHQUAKE RESISTANCE;

EID: 33846040274     PISSN: 03050548     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.cor.2005.09.016     Document Type: Article

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