Sudden onset disasters can block roads and hinder relief logistics. With the objective of
facilitating access to critical locations in the disaster-stricken area, we propose a new …

In response to mass casualty incidents, medical aid must be provided to numerous victims
synchronously under challenging circumstances including uncertainty about the condition of …

We present a novel online optimization approach to tackle the ambulance routing problem
on a road network, specifically designed to handle uncertainties in travel times, triage levels …

We study a multi-period inventory retrieval problem with uncertain selling duration, uncertain
future prices, and price-dependent demands. At the beginning of a finite selling horizon, a …

Abstract The Capacitated Team Orienteering Problem (CTOP) is a challenging
combinatorial optimization problem, wherein a fleet of vehicles traverses multiple locations …

This tutorial introduces and discusses two topics that are related to the application of search
and rescue operations over uncertain terrains, which are common in both humanitarian and …

This article studies the response problem of an emergency logistics network with a decision
hierarchy relationship under uncertainty. To account for the partial distribution information …

This paper introduces the Canadian prize collection problem and demonstrates its
application for assessing the impact of a disaster event on a region, which can arise in either …

This paper introduces the traveling salesman problem with a truck and a drone under
incomplete information (TSP-DI). TSP-DI is motivated by the deliveries of emergency …

Over the last few years, with the rise of natural/man-made disasters, the importance of the
humanitarian supply chain has also received a significant value. Humanitarian supply chain …