Multi-period allocation of ambulances to casualty cluster in a disaster relief operation with uncertain demand

IEEM 2009 - IEEE International Conference on Industrial Engineering and Engineering Management

Volumn , Issue , 2009, Pages 1632-1636

  Yang, Wenguo ^a   Guo, Tiande ^a   Liu, Tie ^a   Huang, Jun ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CHINESE ACADEMY OF SCIENCES   (China)

Author keywords

Algorithms; Allocation of ambulances; Emergency management; Robust optimization; Scenario analyze; Uncertain demand

Indexed keywords

COMPUTATION TIME; DISASTER RELIEF OPERATIONS; EMERGENCY MANAGEMENT; KNAPSACK PROBLEMS; MULTI-PERIOD; NATURAL DISASTERS; ROBUST OPTIMIZATION; SCENARIO ANALYZE; SHORTEST PATH; SOLUTION PROCEDURE; TWO PHASIS; UNCERTAIN DEMAND;

ALGORITHMS; AMBULANCES; CIVIL DEFENSE; DISASTER PREVENTION; DISASTERS; EARTHQUAKES; INDUSTRIAL ENGINEERING; INTEGER PROGRAMMING; MANAGEMENT; OPTIMIZATION;

UNCERTAINTY ANALYSIS;

EID: 77949499728     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/IEEM.2009.5373120     Document Type: Conference Paper

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