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Location, Allocation and Routing of Temporary Health Centers in Rural Areas in Crisis, Solved by Improved Harmony Search Algorithm

Authors
Mahdi Alinaghian*1, Alinaghian@cc.iut.ac.ir, Alireza Goli2, A.goli@stu.yazd.ac.ir
*Department of Industrial and Systems Engineering, Isfahan University of Technology, Isfahan, 84156-83111, Iran
2Department of Industrial Engineering, Yazd University, Yazd, Yazd, Iran
Received 25 April 2016, Accepted 5 April 2017, Available Online 20 April 2017.
DOI
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Keywords
disaster relief logistic; harmony search algorithm; temporary health centers; vehicle routing problem; rural areas
Abstract

In this paper, an uncertain integrated model for simultaneously locating temporary health centers in the affected areas, allocating affected areas to these centers, and routing to transport their required good is considered. Health centers can be settled in one of the affected areas or in a place out of them; therefore, the proposed model offers the best relief operation policy when it is possible to supply the goods of affected areas (which are customers of goods) directly or under coverage. Due to that the problem is NP-Hard, to solve the problem in large-scale, a meta-heuristic algorithm based on harmony search algorithm is presented and its performance has been compared with basic harmony search algorithm and neighborhood search algorithm in small and large scale test problems. The results show that the proposed harmony search algorithm has a suitable efficiency.

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International Journal of Computational Intelligence Systems
Volume-Issue
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Pages
894 - 913
Publication Date
2017/04/20
ISSN (Online)
1875-6883
ISSN (Print)
1875-6891
DOI
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