Abstract
Logistics operations have a direct impact on the effectiveness of the humanitarian relief operations and the survival of the population, supplying all demands in a short period of time using the available limited resources. This work addresses the Emergency k-Location Routing Problem (EkLRP) where humanitarian and relief aid has to be distributed from medical infrastructure to the affected people by routing emergency-aimed vehicles minimizing the time required to provide the humanitarian aid. This work proposes a Simulated Annealing with temperature reset in order to promote diversification as well as for escaping from local optima. The numerical experiments indicate that the metaheuristic approach proposed to solve the EkLRP reports high-quality solutions in reasonable computational times.
Original language | English |
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Title of host publication | Computer Aided Systems Theory – EUROCAST 2019 - 17th International Conference, Revised Selected Papers |
Editors | Roberto Moreno-Díaz, Franz Pichler, Alexis Quesada-Arencibia |
Publisher | Springer Singapore |
Pages | 335-343 |
Number of pages | 9 |
ISBN (Electronic) | 978-3-030-45093-9 |
ISBN (Print) | 978-3-030-45092-2 |
DOIs | |
Publication status | Published - 15 Apr 2020 |
Event | 17th International Conference on Computer Aided Systems Theory, EUROCAST 2019 - Las Palmas de Gran Canaria, Spain Duration: 17 Feb 2019 → 22 Feb 2019 Conference number: 17 http://eurocast2019.fulp.ulpgc.es/ |
Publication series
Name | Lecture Notes in Computer Science (including subseries Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence and Lecture Notes in Bioinformatics) |
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Volume | 12013 LNCS |
ISSN (Print) | 0302-9743 |
ISSN (Electronic) | 1611-3349 |
Conference
Conference | 17th International Conference on Computer Aided Systems Theory, EUROCAST 2019 |
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Abbreviated title | EUROCAST 2019 |
Country | Spain |
City | Las Palmas de Gran Canaria |
Period | 17/02/19 → 22/02/19 |
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Keywords
- Humanitarian relief
- Metaheuristics
- Simulated annealing
- Heuristics
- Logistics
- Health care logistics
- Optimization
- Routing
- Location