Modeling multiple humanitarian objectives in emergency response to large-scale disasters

Transportation Research Part E: Logistics and Transportation Review

Volumn 75, Issue , 2015, Pages 1-17

  Huang, Kai ^a,b   Jiang, Yiping ^a,b   Yuan, Yufei ^a,b   Zhao, Lindu ^a,b  

^a MCMASTER UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

^b SOUTHEAST UNIVERSITY   (China)

Author keywords

Emergency distribution; Humanitarian logistics; Mathematical programming; Multi objective optimization; Resource allocation; Utility function

Indexed keywords

EMERGENCY SERVICES; MULTIOBJECTIVE OPTIMIZATION; RESOURCE ALLOCATION; VARIATIONAL TECHNIQUES;

DISASTER RESPONSE OPERATIONS; EMERGENCY DISTRIBUTION; EMERGENCY RESOURCES; EMERGENCY RESPONSE; HUMANITARIAN LOGISTICS; LARGE SCALE DISASTERS; MULTI-OBJECTIVES OPTIMIZATION; RESOURCE DISTRIBUTION; RESOURCES ALLOCATION; UTILITY FUNCTIONS;

MATHEMATICAL PROGRAMMING;

ALGORITHM; DISASTER MANAGEMENT; HUMANITARIAN AID; MODELING; OPTIMIZATION; RESOURCE ALLOCATION;

EID: 84920879390     PISSN: 13665545     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.tre.2014.11.007     Document Type: Article

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