ISSN:
1572-9974
Keywords:
Decision support system
;
disaster mitigation and recovery
;
Geographic Information System (GIS)
;
service delivery
Source:
Springer Online Journal Archives 1860-2000
Topics:
Computer Science
,
Economics
Notes:
Abstract Most traditional service delivery models were developed to solve single objective problems. While the disaster recovery task usually needed the consideration of multiple objectives (e.g. the total waiting time, the total weighted time of travelling, the fairness of resource distribution). Therefore, the traditional models can't completely support the disaster recovery task. In the real world, the assignments of service delivery are always performed by the vehicle dispatchers or truck drivers based on their experiences. However, the intuitive assignment methods are lacking a mathematic basis. They may be efficient but not necessarily effective. In order to provide an efficient and effective decision support system, this study has focused on the general expression of performances for service delivery and modifies the traditional delivery models by rule-inference techniques. The objective of this paper is to describe how a decision support system has been developed to achieve the performance requirement in emergency service delivery tasks, while traditional routing algorithms are modified and software techniques are utilized under a PC-based environment. Furthermore, some directions for future improvement are proposed.
Type of Medium:
Electronic Resource
URL:
http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/BF01299230
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