Epidemics control and logistics operations: A review

TK Dasaklis, CP Pappis, NP Rachaniotis - International Journal of …, 2012 - Elsevier
Outbreaks of epidemics account for a great number of deaths. Communicable or infectious
diseases are also a major cause of mortality in the aftermath of natural or man-made …

Maintaining efficient logistics and supply chain management operations during and after coronavirus (COVID-19) pandemic: learning from the past experiences

U Illahi, MS Mir - Environment, Development and Sustainability, 2021 - Springer
The outbreak of the novel coronavirus (COVID-19) forced the governing bodies across the
world to ban all kinds of travel involving the movement of people. However, the policymakers …

Heterogeneity and network structure in the dynamics of diffusion: Comparing agent-based and differential equation models

H Rahmandad, J Sterman - Management science, 2008 - pubsonline.informs.org
When is it better to use agent-based (AB) models, and when should differential equation
(DE) models be used? Whereas DE models assume homogeneity and perfect mixing within …

A new epidemics–logistics model: Insights into controlling the Ebola virus disease in West Africa

İE Büyüktahtakın, E des-Bordes, EY Kıbış - European Journal of …, 2018 - Elsevier
Compartmental models have been a phenomenon of studying epidemics. However, existing
compartmental models do not explicitly consider the spatial spread of an epidemic and …

COVID-19: Data-driven optimal allocation of ventilator supply under uncertainty and risk

X Yin, İE Büyüktahtakın, BP Patel - European journal of operational …, 2023 - Elsevier
This study presents a new risk-averse multi-stage stochastic epidemics-ventilator-logistics
compartmental model to address the resource allocation challenges of mitigating COVID-19 …

A multi-stage stochastic programming approach to epidemic resource allocation with equity considerations

X Yin, IE Büyüktahtakın - Health Care Management Science, 2021 - Springer
Existing compartmental models in epidemiology are limited in terms of optimizing the
resource allocation to control an epidemic outbreak under disease growth uncertainty. In this …

Global sensitivity analysis in epidemiological modeling

X Lu, E Borgonovo - European journal of operational research, 2023 - Elsevier
Operations researchers worldwide rely extensively on quantitative simulations to model
alternative aspects of the COVID-19 pandemic. Proper uncertainty quantification and …

[HTML][HTML] Contact tracing–old models and new challenges

J Müller, M Kretzschmar - Infectious Disease Modelling, 2021 - Elsevier
Contact tracing is an effective method to control emerging infectious diseases. Since the
1980's, modellers are develo** a consistent theory for contact tracing, with the aim to find …

Methodology of emergency medical logistics for public health emergencies

Y He, N Liu - Transportation Research Part E: Logistics and …, 2015 - Elsevier
This work presents a novel model of emergency medical logistics for quick response to
public health emergencies. The proposed methodology consists of two recursive …

Containing 2019-ncov (wuhan) coronavirus

EH Kaplan - Health care management science, 2020 - Springer
The novel coronavirus 2019-nCoV first appeared in December 2019 in Wuhan, China. While
most of the initial cases were linked to the Huanan Seafood Wholesale Market, person-to …