Development of an interval-based evacuation management model in response to nuclear-power plant accident

Journal of Environmental Informatics

Volumn 20, Issue 2, 2012, Pages 58-66

  Guo, L ^a   Li, Y P ^b   Huang, G H ^a   Wang, X W ^b   Dai, C ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF REGINA   (Canada)

^b NORTH CHINA ELECTRIC POWER UNIVERSITY   (China)

Author keywords

Decision making; Evacuation management; Interval analysis; Nuclear accident; Optimization; Uncertainty

Indexed keywords

ALGORITHM; COST-BENEFIT ANALYSIS; ENVIRONMENTAL MANAGEMENT; LINEAR PROGRAMING; MANAGEMENT PRACTICE; NUCLEAR ACCIDENT; NUCLEAR POWER PLANT; NUMERICAL MODEL; OPTIMIZATION; RISK ASSESSMENT;

EID: 84872151478     PISSN: 17262135     EISSN: 16848799     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3808/jei.201200220     Document Type: Article

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