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An Ant Colony System Adaptation to Deal with Accessibility Issues After a Disaster

In: Operations Research Proceedings 2014

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  • Héctor Muñoz

    (Universidad Politécnica de Madrid)

  • Antonio Jiménez-Martín

    (Universidad Politécnica de Madrid)

  • Alfonso Mateos

    (Universidad Politécnica de Madrid)

Abstract

One of the mainMuñoz, Héctor problems relief teamsJiménez-Martín, Antonio face after a naturalMateos, Alfonso or man-made disaster is how to plan rural road repair work to take maximum advantage of the limited available financial and human resources. In this paper we account for the accessibility issue, that is, to maximize the number of survivors that reach the nearest regional center in a minimum time by planning which rural roads should be repaired given the available financial and human resources. This is a combinatorial problem and we propose a first approach to solve it using an ant colony system adaptation. The proposed algorithm is illustrated by means of an example, and its performance is compared with the combination of two metaheuristics, GRASP and VNS.

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  • Héctor Muñoz & Antonio Jiménez-Martín & Alfonso Mateos, 2016. "An Ant Colony System Adaptation to Deal with Accessibility Issues After a Disaster," Operations Research Proceedings, in: Marco Lübbecke & Arie Koster & Peter Letmathe & Reinhard Madlener & Britta Peis & Grit Walther (ed.), Operations Research Proceedings 2014, edition 1, pages 415-421, Springer.
    • Handle: RePEc:spr:oprchp:978-3-319-28697-6_58
    DOI: 10.1007/978-3-319-28697-6_58
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