Stochastic optimization for natural disaster asset prepositioning

Production and Operations Management

Volumn 19, Issue 5, 2010, Pages 561-574

  Salmerón, Javier ^a   Apte, Aruna ^a  

^a NAVAL POSTGRADUATE SCHOOL   (United States)

Author keywords

humanitarian logistics; relief operations; stochastic optimization

Indexed keywords

EID: 79952033645     PISSN: 10591478     EISSN: 19375956     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1937-5956.2009.01119.x     Document Type: Article

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