TY - GEN
T1 - The facility location for emergency response -a multi-objective approach
AU - Hernandez, Ivan
AU - Ramirez-Marquez, Jose
PY - 2012
Y1 - 2012
N2 - In the event of a bio-hazard break out in a city, response agencies will open Temporary Emergency Units (TEUs) in every affected neighborhood to vaccinate the population. Through evolutionary algorithms, this research shows how response agencies can choose the best locations for setting up TEUs when a set of competing objectives are considered. Based on the proposed approach, response agencies can obtain trade-off solutions with respect to: a) setting up few TEUs, but with the drawback that processing the entire population might take a long time, or b) processing the entire population in time, by setting up a large number of facilities.
AB - In the event of a bio-hazard break out in a city, response agencies will open Temporary Emergency Units (TEUs) in every affected neighborhood to vaccinate the population. Through evolutionary algorithms, this research shows how response agencies can choose the best locations for setting up TEUs when a set of competing objectives are considered. Based on the proposed approach, response agencies can obtain trade-off solutions with respect to: a) setting up few TEUs, but with the drawback that processing the entire population might take a long time, or b) processing the entire population in time, by setting up a large number of facilities.
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M3 - Conference contribution
AN - SCOPUS:84883530574
SN - 9781622769162
T3 - 22nd Annual International Symposium of the International Council on Systems Engineering, INCOSE 2012 and the 8th Biennial European Systems Engineering Conference 2012, EuSEC 2012
SP - 722
EP - 736
BT - 22nd Annual International Symposium of the International Council on Systems Engineering, INCOSE 2012 and the 8th Biennial European Systems Engineering Conference 2012, EuSEC 2012
T2 - 22nd Annual International Symposium of the International Council on Systems Engineering, INCOSE 2012 and the 8th Biennial European Systems Engineering Conference 2012, EuSEC 2012
Y2 - 9 July 2012 through 12 July 2012
ER -