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A multi-stage decision model for debris disposal operations
Gary M. Fetter
author
Mauro Falasca
author
Christopher W. Zobel
author
Terry R. Rakes
author
2010
Information Systems for Crisis Response and Management, ISCRAM
Seattle, WA
English
As shown by Hurricane Katrina, disposing of disaster-generated debris can be quite challenging. Extraordinary amounts of debris far exceeding typical annual amounts of solid waste are almost instantaneously deposited across a widespread area. Although the locations and amounts of debris can be easily summarized looking back after recovery activities have been completed, they are uncertain and difficult at best to estimate as debris operations begin to unfold. Further complicating matters is that the capacity of cleanup resources, which is dependent upon available equipment, labor, and subcontractors, can fluctuate during on-going cleanup operations. As a result, debris coordinators often modify initial resource assignments as more accurate debris estimates and more stable resource capacities become known. In this research, we develop a computer-based decision support system that incorporates a multi-stage programming model to assist decision makers with allocating debris cleanup resources immediately following a crisis event and during ongoing operations as debris volumes and resource capacities become known with increasing certainty.
Artificial intelligence
Decision support systems
Information systems
Optimization
Stochastic programming
Clean-up operations
Debris cleanup
Decision makers
Decision modeling
Hurricane katrina
Initial resources
Multi-stage programming
Resource capacity
Debris
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text
http://idl.iscram.org/files/fetter/2010/491_Fetter_etal2010.pdf
GaryM.Fetter_etal2010
ISCRAM 2010 – 7th International Conference on Information Systems for Crisis Response and Management: Defining Crisis Management 3.0, Proceedings
ISCRAM 2010
S. French
B
Tomaszewski
editor
7th International ISCRAM Conference on Information Systems for Crisis Response and Management
2010
Information Systems for Crisis Response and Management, ISCRAM
Seattle, WA
conference publication
2411-3387
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