Reserving relief supplies for earthquake: a multi-attribute decision making of China Red Cross

Annals of Operations Research

Volumn 247, Issue 2, 2016, Pages 759-785

  Yang, Feng ^a   Yuan, Qianqian ^a   Du, Shaofu ^a   Liang, Liang ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY OF CHINA   (China)

Author keywords

Cost; Data envelopment analysis (DEA); Earthquake; Relief supplies; Resource allocation; Risk; Utility

Indexed keywords

EID: 84910033380     PISSN: 02545330     EISSN: 15729338     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10479-014-1749-5     Document Type: Article

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