Title
Optimizing the Post-disaster Resource Allocation with Q-Learning: Demonstration of 2021 China Flood
Date Issued
01 January 2022
Access level
metadata only access
Resource Type
conference paper
Author(s)
Tohoku University
Publisher(s)
Springer Science and Business Media Deutschland GmbH
Abstract
Reasonable and efficient allocation plan of emergency resources is key to successful disaster response. The Q-learning algorithm may provide a new approach to the resource allocation problem, which can take a variety of factors into consideration and timely respond to subsequent changes. In this paper, we propose a reinforcement learning Q-learning model in which the subsequent changes of disasters are included. Furthermore, in order to obtain a convincing result, three penalty functions are presented to represent three key factors, including efficiency, effectiveness and fairness. We test our proposed method under the background of actual flood disaster and compare results with real-time disaster development. Our empirical results show that the proposed model is in line with the development of disaster, and extremely sensitive to information on subsequent changes in the disaster situations, verifying its effectiveness in allocation of emergency resources.
Start page
256
End page
262
Volume
13427 LNCS
Language
English
OCDE Knowledge area
Ciencias ambientales
Temas sociales
Subjects
Scopus EID
2-s2.0-85136153160
ISSN of the container
03029743
ISBN of the container
978-303112425-9
Conference
Lecture Notes in Computer Science (including subseries Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence and Lecture Notes in Bioinformatics) - 33rd International Conference on Database and Expert Systems Applications, DEXA 2022
Sponsor(s)
Acknowledgment. This research was supported by Public Health & Disease Control and Prevention, Major Innovation & Planning Interdisciplinary Platform for the “Double-First Class” Initiative, Renmin University of China (No. 2022PDPC), fund for building world-class universities (disciplines) of Renmin University of China. Project No. KYGJA2022001, fund for building world-class universities (disciplines) of Ren-min University of China. Project No. KYGJF2021001, Beijing Golden Bridge Project seed fund (No. ZZ21021), National Natural Science Foundation of China (Grant No. 72004226). This research was supported by Public Computing Cloud, Renmin University of China.
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