A heuristic relief transportation planning algorithm for emergency supply chain management

International Journal of Computer Mathematics

Volumn 87, Issue 7, 2010, Pages 1638-1664

  Chern, C C ^a   Chen, Y L ^a   Kung, L C ^a  

^a NATIONAL TAIWAN UNIVERSITY   (Taiwan)

Author keywords

Emergency relief transportation; Emergency response system; Emergency supply chain management; Heuristic algorithm; Multiple objective optimization

Indexed keywords

COMPUTATIONAL ANALYSIS; EFFECTIVENESS AND EFFICIENCIES; EMERGENCY RELIEF; EMERGENCY RESPONSE SYSTEMS; MIXED INTEGER PROGRAMMING (MIP); MULTIPLE-OBJECTIVE OPTIMIZATION; SUPPLY CHAIN OPERATION; TRANSPORTATION PLANNING;

FORESTRY; SUPPLY CHAIN MANAGEMENT;

HEURISTIC ALGORITHMS;

EID: 77953241447     PISSN: 00207160     EISSN: 10290265     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/00207160802441256     Document Type: Article

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