After an earthquake, it is required to establish temporary relief centers in order to help the
victims. Selection of proper sites for these centers has a significant effect on the processes of …

One of the important steps in the earthquake disaster management is the establishment of
temporary relief centers, to provide the basic helps and support in short time. Finding …

The purpose of this study is to locate temporary shelters and assign injured people to the
shelters. Routing people from destroyed areas to newly constructed shelters (in order to …

Allocation for earthquake emergency shelters is a complicated geographic optimization
problem because it involves multiple sites, strict constraints, and discrete feasible domain …

Background Location-allocation is a combinatorial optimization problem, and is defined as
Non deterministic Polynomial Hard (NP) hard optimization. Therefore, solution of such a …

Earthquake disaster management involves determining locations in which to construct
shelters and how to allocate the affected population to them. A multi-objective, hierarchical …

In Iran, location is usually done by temporary relief organizations without considering the
necessary standards or conditions. The inappropriate and unscientific location may have led …

Choosing an appropriate site for temporary housing of the population affected by natural
disasters has always been among the issues that have been brought to the attention of …

Earthquakes are notorious as devastating natural disasters that can result in tragic fatalities
and economic loss. The building of earthquake evacuation shelters is an effective way to …

Emergency evacuation throughout and after the flood is a crucial task to mitigating more
instantaneous impacts, whilst refining social resilience for longer-term recovery. To enhance …