Alternate risk measures for emergency medical service system design

Noyan, Nilay (2010) Alternate risk measures for emergency medical service system design. Annals of Operations Research, 181 (1). pp. 559-589. ISSN 0254-5330 (Print) 1572-9338 (Online)

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Abstract

The stochastic nature of emergency service requests and the unavailability of emergency vehicles when requested to serve demands are critical issues in constructing valid models representing real life emergency medical service (EMS) systems. We consider an EMS system design problem with stochastic demand and locate the emergency response facilities and vehicles in order to ensure target levels of coverage, which are quantified using risk measures on random unmet demand. The target service levels for each demand site and also for the entire service area are specified. In order to increase the possibility of representing a wider range of risk preferences we develop two stochastic optimization models involving alternate risk measures. Our first model includes integrated chance constraints (ICCs), whereas the second one incorporates ICCs and a second order dominance constraint. We propose solution methods for our stochastic optimization problems and present extensive numerical results demonstrating their computational effectiveness.
Item Type: Article
Uncontrolled Keywords: Stochastic programming; Random demand; Integrated chance constraints; Stochastic dominance constraints; Emergency facilities; Ambulance allocation
Subjects: Q Science > Q Science (General)
Divisions: Faculty of Engineering and Natural Sciences > Academic programs > Manufacturing Systems Eng.
Faculty of Engineering and Natural Sciences
Depositing User: Nilay Noyan
Date Deposited: 13 Oct 2010 16:48
Last Modified: 26 Apr 2022 08:40
URI: https://research.sabanciuniv.edu/id/eprint/14715

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