With the trend of global warming and destructive human activities, the frequent occurrences
of catastrophes have posed devastating threats to human life and social stability worldwide …

Prepositioning of assets and supplies prior to a disaster strike accelerates the response
activities as it reduces the supply chain burden associated with humanitarian relief items …

We have reviewed disaster management research papers published in major operations
management, management science, operations research, supply chain management and …

In this study, we propose a mixed integer linear programming based methodology for
selecting the location of temporary shelter sites. The mathematical model maximizes the …

This paper provides a comprehensive review of the research done on facility location
problems under uncertainty in a humanitarian context. The major goal is to summarize and …

This study presents a comprehensive review of network-based large scale emergency
evacuation planning and management literature. Evacuation planning and management …

Traffic management during an evacuation and the decision of where to locate the shelters
are of critical importance to the performance of an evacuation plan. From the evacuation …

Shelter opening and evacuation of vulnerable populations are operations crucial to disaster
response, which is one of the four phases of Disaster Operations Management (DOM) …

Shelters are safe facilities that protect a population from possible damaging effects of a
disaster. For that reason, shelter location and traffic assignment decisions should be …

This paper proposes a method for designing a seamless centralized emergency supply
network by integrating three sub-networks (shelter network, medical network, and …