A hybrid decision support system for managing humanitarian relief chains

Decision Support Systems

Volumn 95, Issue , 2017, Pages 12-26

  Sahebjamnia, Navid ^a   Torabi, S Ali ^b   Mansouri, S Afshin ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY OF MAZANDARAN   (Iran)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TEHRAN   (Iran)

^c BRUNEL UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Decision support system; Humanitarian relief chain; Integrated relief prepositioning and distribution planning; Knowledge based system; Rule based simulator

Indexed keywords

ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE; CHAINS; COST BENEFIT ANALYSIS; DISASTERS; ECONOMIC AND SOCIAL EFFECTS; ENGINES; INFERENCE ENGINES; KNOWLEDGE BASED SYSTEMS; MANAGERS; SIMULATORS; STOCHASTIC SYSTEMS;

DISTRIBUTION PLANNING; HUMANITARIAN RELIEF; HYBRID DECISION SUPPORT SYSTEMS; LARGE SCALE DISASTERS; PERFORMANCE MEASURE; RULE BASED; RULE-BASED INFERENCE; TRADE-OFF ANALYSIS;

DECISION SUPPORT SYSTEMS;

EID: 85028269501     PISSN: 01679236     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.dss.2016.11.006     Document Type: Article

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