Integrated civilian–military pre-positioning of emergency supplies: A multiobjective optimization approach

A fuzzy stochastic approach for pre-positioning and distribution of emergency supplies in disaster management

Efficient management of humanitarian relief chains (HRC) is crucial due to the increasing number and intensity of natural disasters around the globe. In this paper, a fuzzy scenario-based stochastic programming (FSBSP) model is proposed for HRC-related logistical problems which are characterized by inherent uncertainty in their input data. The FSBSP model is an extension to an existing stochast...

Designing an integrated relief pre-positioning network with perishable commodities

In this paper, a bi-objective model is proposed for designing a pre-positioning network of pharmaceutical supplies considering their limited shelf-life. The presented model aims to consider both cost efficiency and responsiveness by minimization of total cost and the maximum amount of unmet demand under uncertainties in demand and supply sides’ data. Moreover, for effective distribution of reli...

Approach on Safeguard Mechanism of Emergency Supplies

Unexpected events require a lot of emergency supplies, such as severe natural disasters, public health emergencies, public safety incidents and military conflict. Materials for emergency and war constraints play a key role in the success or failure. In this paper, the collection and purchasing, storage and management, transportation and distribution of emergency supplies as three aspects of the...

A Modified Discreet Particle Swarm Optimization for a Multi-level Emergency Supplies Distribution Network

Currently, the research of emergency supplies distribution and decision models mostly focus on deterministic models and exact algorithm. A few of studies have been done on the multi-level distribution network and matheuristic algorithm. In this paper, random processes theory is adopted to establish emergency supplies distribution and decision model for multi-level network. By analyzing the char...

A multiobjective optimization approach to the operation