transition probabilities. Our approach is based on an optimization model. More specifically we consider two competing objectives …

optimization, based on Kriging (also called Gaussian process or spatial correlation modeling); this Kriging is used to analyze the … improvement" (EI) in "efficient global optimization" (EGO) through the introduction of an unbiased estimator of the Kriging …

mitigate the damages and save people’s lives. Optimization and simulation modeling have become powerful and useful tools to … help decision makers tackle problems related to disaster relief supply chain. This paper reviews optimization and … optimization problems of disaster relief supply chain under different types of disastrous events. We review the literature of …

-management strategy for the government in its current form. Including optimization in the debt-strategy model would be useful, since it … nonetheless complicated by two challenges. First, performing optimization with traditional techniques in a simulation setting is …