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Prepositioning of supplies in preparation for a hurricane under potential destruction of prepositioned supplies
Galindo, Gina; Batta, Rajan - In: Socio-Economic Planning Sciences 47 (2013) 1, pp. 20-37
Hurricanes are a type of natural disaster for which it is possible to plan for prepositioning of supplies to improve the efficiency of the post-disaster relief effort. This paper develops a model for prepositioning supplies in such a setting. Our model has a distinguishing feature the possible...
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Location of temporary depots to facilitate relief operations after an earthquake
Lin, Yen-Hung; Batta, Rajan; Rogerson, Peter A.; Blatt, Alan - In: Socio-Economic Planning Sciences 46 (2012) 2, pp. 112-123
The type of humanitarian logistics problem of interest is an earthquake with significant damage, prioritized items for delivery, and an extensive time period over which supplies need to be delivered. The problem of interest is an outgrowth of a recent paper by [10], where they focused on...
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Dominance rules for the optimal placement of a finite-size facility in an existing layout
Date, Ketan; Makked, Suryaansh; Nagi, Rakesh - In: Computers & operations research : and their … 51 (2014), pp. 182-189
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Optimal placement of multiple finite-size rectangular facilities in an existing layout
Date, Ketan; Nagi, Rakesh - In: International journal of production research 62 (2024) 1/2, pp. 7-23
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Optimal and heuristic solutions for placing multiple finite-size rectangular facilities in an existing layout
Date, Ketan; Nagi, Rakesh - In: International journal of production research 62 (2024) 1/2, pp. 24-44
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