Seaports are exposed to various uncertain disasters caused by natural or human factors, which have multi-dimensional impacts on the economy. Retrofit appears as one of the effective mitigation methods to protect the seaport network and to reduce the post-disaster loss in the port management engineering. The post-disaster loss is quantified by replacement or repair cost of the structural damage …
We propose a mathematical model to minimize the overall response time consisting of the current ship incident and future potential incident that might occur at some other site in the sea. Considering the uncertainties in both objective function and constraints, a two stage stochastic programming model having chance constraints for the number of rescue ships to be required at the potential incid…
Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to discuss and to help address the need for quantitative models to support and improve procurement in the context of humanitarian relief efforts. Design/methodology/approach – This research presents a two-stage stochastic decision model with recourse for procurement in humanitarian relief supply chains, and compares its effectiveness on an illustra…