People spend more than 90% of their life time in buildings, which makes occupant behavior
one of the leading influences of energy consumption in buildings. Occupancy and occupant …

This article presents a review of the use of optimisation models for pedestrian evacuation
and design problems. The articles are classified according to the problem type that is …

Humanitarian relief logistics is one of the most important elements of a relief operation in
disaster management. The present work develops a multi-objective robust stochastic …

The fatal earthquake on September 21, 1999 caused significant damages to Taiwan, which
made the national government focus on strengthening relief systems regarding natural …

We describe a hierarchical cluster and route procedure (HOGCR) for coordinating vehicle
routing in large-scale post-disaster distribution and evacuation activities. The HOGCR is a …

We study resource planning strategies, including the integrated healthcare resources'
allocation and sharing as well as patients' transfer, to improve the response of health …

Recent natural disasters such as the earthquake in Haiti, Hurricane Katrina in the United
States, tsunami in the Indian Ocean, the earthquake in Pakistan, and numerous …

This paper describes an efficient planning system for coordinating helicopter operations in
disaster relief. This system can be used as a simulation tool in contingency panning for …

Given their nature, disasters are generally characterized by a high level of uncertainty. In
fact, both their occurrence and their consequences are not easily anticipated. Thus, NGOs …

Operations research has had a long and distinguished history of work in emergency
preparedness and response, airline security, transportation of hazardous materials, and …