Priority assignment in emergency response

Operations Research

Volumn 60, Issue 4, 2012, Pages 813-832

  Jacobson, Evin Uzun ^a   Argon, Nilay Tanik ^b   Ziya, Serhan ^b  

^a IMPERIAL COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

^b University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

EMERGENCY MEDICINE; EMERGENCY RESPONSE; HEURISTIC POLICIES; MULTIPLE CLASS; NUMERICAL STUDIES; OPTIMAL POLICIES; POTENTIAL BENEFITS; PRIORITIZATION; PRIORITY ASSIGNMENT; PRIORITY LEVELS; RESOURCE LIMITATIONS; SAMPLE-PATH METHOD; SERVICE TIME; STATE INFORMATION; STATE-DEPENDENT; STOCHASTIC DYNAMIC PROGRAMMING;

OPERATIONS RESEARCH;

COMPUTER APPLICATIONS;

EID: 84866378604     PISSN: 0030364X     EISSN: 15265463     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1287/opre.1120.1075     Document Type: Article

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