Prepositioning of Emergency Supplies for Predictable Disasters Using Distributionally Robust Optimization

Jing Li, Ada Che, Feng Chu

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Abstract

This paper examines the prepositioning of emergency supplies problem, which integrates the decisions of facility location, emergency supplies prepositioning, and distribution under predictable disasters. We scrutinize three stages of relief management in the context of predictable disasters. After that, this paper introduces a novel three-stage distributionally robust optimization (3DRO) model. To make the 3DRO model computationally tractable, we further develop a deterministic equivalent model. A real case study in China demonstrates the superiority of our proposed model.

Original languageEnglish
Pages (from-to)3100-3105
Number of pages6
JournalIFAC-PapersOnLine
Volume55
Issue number10
DOIs
StatePublished - 2022
Event10th IFAC Conference on Manufacturing Modelling, Management and Control, MIM 2022 - Nantes, France
Duration: 22 Jun 202224 Jun 2022

Keywords

  • disaster relief
  • distributionally robust optimization
  • facility location
  • inventory prepositioning
  • predictable disasters

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