... their preferred availability, considers the grading of volunteers according to their skills and training and provides a final flight schedule for all the medical personnel needed to operate the field hospital. Compromise programming is used to provide a Pareto optimal solution, which is compared with solutions...

... tool for minimizing the duration of mass vaccination campaigns in rural and remote areas of developing countries. Design/methodology/approach This paper presents a linear mathematical model that combines location, scheduling and routing decisions that allows determining where to locate...

.../approach The transportation-related disaster management problem is complex and dynamic. The practical solution needs decomposition and a fast algorithm for determining the next mission of a vehicle. The suggested method is a synthesis of mathematical modeling, scheduling theory, heuristic methods...