A unified framework for efficient, effective, and fair resource allocation by food banks using an approximate dynamic programming approach

F Alkaabneh, A Diabat, HO Gao - Omega, 2021 - Elsevier
In response to growing evidence linking food insecurity and poor nutrition to an increased
risk of chronic health problems, such as diabetes and malnutrition, food bank personnel and …

Robust, multi-objective optimization for the military medical evacuation location-allocation problem

PR Jenkins, BJ Lunday, MJ Robbins - Omega, 2020 - Elsevier
Determining where to locate mobile aeromedical staging facilities (MASFs) as well as
identifying how many aeromedical helicopters to allocate to each MASF, commonly referred …

[HTML][HTML] A review of approximate dynamic programming applications within military operations research

M Rempel, J Cai - Operations Research Perspectives, 2021 - Elsevier
Sequences of decisions that occur under uncertainty arise in a variety of settings, including
transportation, communication networks, finance, defence, etc. The classic approach to find …

Approximate dynamic programming for military medical evacuation dispatching policies

PR Jenkins, MJ Robbins… - INFORMS Journal on …, 2021 - pubsonline.informs.org
Military medical planners must consider how aerial medical evacuation (MEDEVAC) assets
will be dispatched when preparing for and supporting high-intensity combat operations. The …

The future of military medical evacuation: literature analysis focused on the potential adoption of emerging technologies and advanced decision-analysis techniques

S Biswas, H Turan, S Elsawah… - The Journal of …, 2023 - journals.sagepub.com
A fundamental component of any military medical support system is medical evacuation. The
main goal of evacuation is to reduce mortality among critically injured combat casualties. To …

An approximate dynamic programming approach to dynamic slot allocation of spot containers with random arrivals, cancellations, and no-shows

Y Gu, Y Wang, T Wang - Transportation Research Part E: Logistics and …, 2025 - Elsevier
Container ship** demands are usually classified into long-term contract demands from
large shippers and ad hoc demands from spot shippers. Compared with stable long-term …

Approximate dynamic programming for the military aeromedical evacuation dispatching, preemption-rerouting, and redeployment problem

PR Jenkins, MJ Robbins, BJ Lunday - European Journal of Operational …, 2021 - Elsevier
Military medical planners must consider how aeromedical evacuation (MEDEVAC) assets
will be utilized when preparing for and supporting combat operations. This research …

Off-policy evaluation for action-dependent non-stationary environments

Y Chandak, S Shankar, N Bastian… - Advances in …, 2022 - proceedings.neurips.cc
Methods for sequential decision-making are often built upon a foundational assumption that
the underlying decision process is stationary. This limits the application of such methods …

Solving the joint military medical evacuation problem via a random forest approximate dynamic programming approach

CA Rodriguez, PR Jenkins, MJ Robbins - Expert Systems with Applications, 2023 - Elsevier
Members of the armed forces rely on having an effective and efficient medical evacuation
(MEDEVAC) process for evacuating casualties from the battlefield to medical treatment …

A scheduling and planning method for geological disasters

F Wan, H Guo, J Li, M Gu, W Pan, Y Ying - Applied Soft Computing, 2021 - Elsevier
Upon the occurrence of a disaster, emergency supplies should arrive at disaster areas with
different severities in the shortest time. Therefore, it is of pivotal importance to plan and …