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Article Dans Une Revue International Journal of Production Research Année : 2024

Distributionally robust multi-period humanitarian relief network design integrating facility location, supply inventory and allocation, and evacuation planning

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Facility location, supply inventory and distribution, and evacuation planning are key operational functions in a humanitarian relief network, it is critical to integrate these three functions and schedule their activities jointly in a coordinated manner. Considering uncertain demands and evacuation rates of injured people, we develop a distributionally robust model for the multi-period humanitarian relief network design with multiple types of relief supplies. To solve the problem, we reformulate the proposed model into a mixed integer linear programme, and develop an enhanced branch-and-Benders-cut algorithm that incorporates some algorithm enhancements to solve the resulting model. Extensive numerical experiments show that: (i) the distributionally robust model provides more reliable and flexible solutions that perform the best when faced uncertainty over the deterministic and stochastic models; (ii) the algorithm enhancements are very effective to enhance the performance of the proposed algorithm, which can reduce the CPU time by up to 9.75%∼41.64% on average; (iii) the integrated solution approach is more beneficial to solve the problem when comparing with a sequential solution approach; and (iv) some model parameters have significant impact on the solution structure, which can help decision maker set proper parameters to achieve the desired trade-off among the considered metrics.
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hal-04172729 , version 1 (02-05-2024)

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Yunqiang Yin, Jie Wang, Feng Chu, Dujuan Wang. Distributionally robust multi-period humanitarian relief network design integrating facility location, supply inventory and allocation, and evacuation planning. International Journal of Production Research, 2024, 62 (1-2), pp.45--70. ⟨10.1080/00207543.2023.2230324⟩. ⟨hal-04172729⟩
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