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Yufeng Zhou1, Ying Gong1, Xiaoqin Hu1
1Research Center for Economy of Upper Reaches of the Yangtze River, Chongqing Technology and Business University, Chongqing, China.
Objective:
Scientifically organizing emergency rescue activities to reduce mortality in the early stage of earthquakes.
Methods:
A robust casualty scheduling problem to reduce the total expected death probability of the casualties is studied by considering scenarios of disrupted medical points and routes. The problem is described as a 0-1 mixed integer nonlinear programming model. An improved particle swarm optimization (PSO) algorithm is introduced to solve the model. A case study of the Lushan earthquake in China is conducted to verify the feasibility and effectiveness of the model and algorithm.
Results:
The results show that the proposed PSO algorithm is superior to the compared genetic algorithm, immune optimization algorithm, and differential evolution algorithm. The optimization results are still robust and reliable even if some medical points fail and routes are disrupted in affected areas when considering point-edge mixed failure scenarios.
Conclusion:
Decision makers can balance casualty treatment and system reliability based on the degree of risk preference considering the uncertainty of casualties, to achieve the optimal casualty scheduling effect.
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