Multi-criteria logistics modeling for military humanitarian assistance and disaster relief aerial delivery operations

Optimization Letters

Volumn 10, Issue 5, 2016, Pages 921-953

  Bastian, Nathaniel D ^a   Griffin, Paul M ^b   Spero, Eric ^c   Fulton, Lawrence V ^d  

^a The Pennsylvania State University   (United States)

^b Georgia Institute of Technology   (United States)

^c U S ARMY RESEARCH LABORATORY   (United States)

^d TEXAS TECH UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Aerial delivery operations; Facility location; Humanitarian logistics; Multiple criteria decision analysis; Stochastic optimization; Supply chain engineering

Indexed keywords

CHAINS; DECISION MAKING; DECISION THEORY; DISASTER PREVENTION; DISASTERS; ECONOMIC AND SOCIAL EFFECTS; INTEGER PROGRAMMING; LINEAR PROGRAMMING; LOCATION; MULTIOBJECTIVE OPTIMIZATION; OPERATIONS RESEARCH; OPTIMIZATION; STOCHASTIC MODELS; STOCHASTIC SYSTEMS; SUPPLY CHAINS;

AERIAL DELIVERY; FACILITY LOCATIONS; HUMANITARIAN LOGISTICS; MULTIPLE CRITERIA DECISION ANALYSIS; STOCHASTIC OPTIMIZATIONS; SUPPLY CHAIN ENGINEERING;

EMERGENCY SERVICES;

EID: 84927534685     PISSN: 18624472     EISSN: 18624480     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s11590-015-0888-1     Document Type: Article

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