posted on 2017-06-06, 13:32authored byGary Bennett, Lili Yang, Boyka Simeonova
Flood evacuation planning models are an important tool used in preparation for flooding events. Authorities use the plans generated by flood evacuation models to evacuate the population as quickly as possible. Contemporary models consider the whole solution space and use a stochastic search to explore and produce solutions. The one issue with stochastic approaches is that they cannot guarantee the optimality of the solution and it is important that the plans be of a high quality. We present a heuristically driven flood evacuation planning model; the proposed heuristic is deterministic, which allows the model to avoid this problem. The determinism of the model means that the optimality of solutions found can be readily verified.
History
School
Business and Economics
Department
Business
Published in
International Conference on Information Systems for Crisis Response And Management
Citation
BENNETT, G., YANG, L. and SIMENOVA, B., 2017. A heuristic approach to flood evacuation planning. IN: Comes, T. ...et al. (eds.) Proceedings of the 14th International Conference on Information Systems for Crisis Response And Management: Agility is coming, (ISCRAM 2017), Albi, France, May 21-24th.
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Acceptance date
2017-02-28
Publication date
2017
Notes
This is an Open Access Article. It is published by ISCRAM under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 Unported Licence (CC BY-SA). Full details of this licence are available at: http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/