Emergency disaster managers are concerned with responding to disasters in a timely and
efficient manner. We are concerned with determining the location and amount of disaster …

Military force serves an important function in disaster relief operations, such as in delivering
relief materials to affected areas, providing medical service, and maintaining orders, in many …

Disaster responses are usually joint efforts between agencies of different sizes and
specialties. Improving disaster response can be achieved by prepositioning relief items in …

Management of humanitarian logistics operations is one of the most critical planning
problems to be addressed immediately after a disaster. The response phase covers the first …

The pre-positioning problem is an important part of emergency supply. Pre-positioning
decisions must be made before disasters occur under high uncertainty and only limited …

When a disaster strikes an area, often international assistance is requested to help
responding to and recovering from the disaster. The response is often characterized by the …

This work locates urgent relief distribution centers (URDCs) on a given set of candidate sites
using a robust vertex p-center (RVPC) model. This model addresses uncertain travel times …

Natural disasters such as earthquakes always threaten human societies. Therefore,
preparedness planning seems to be necessary to reduce casualties and accelerate relief …

In the existing framework for receiving and allocating Strategic National Stockpile (SNS)
assistance, there are three noticeable delays: the delay by the state in requesting federal …

Emergency logistics is an essential component of post-disaster relief campaigns. However,
there are always various uncertainties when making decisions related to planning and …