Title
Location of reliable medians on vulnerable networks with stochastic demands
Date Issued
01 January 2013
Access level
metadata only access
Resource Type
conference paper
Author(s)
Universidad Del Turabo
Publisher(s)
Institute of Industrial Engineers
Abstract
This paper addresses the problem of locating service facilities on networks vulnerable to disruptions so as to maximize service availability, defined as the capability of the network to provide service when disruption occurs. Most often, demands originating at network nodes are not deterministic. Nevertheless, planners may estimate demand probability distributions based on the estimated impact of the disruptions. Demands for services are modeled in this study as random variables with known probability mass functions. Service availability is measured using, (i) expected amount of service delivered and (ii) average performance of the network. Optimal locations are sought (a) when average demands originate at the nodes and (b) when taking into account all demand scenarios when network disruption occurs. Procedures are presented for both approaches that find single facility locations on general networks or multi facility locations on tree networks. To avoid intractability in two-terminal reliability calculations, the most reliable route policy is adopted. Numerical examples are provided to illustrate the procedures.
Start page
3597
End page
3606
Language
English
OCDE Knowledge area
Ingeniería eléctrica, Ingeniería electrónica
Matemáticas aplicadas
Subjects
Scopus EID
2-s2.0-84900321907
Source
IIE Annual Conference and Expo 2013
Resource of which it is part
IIE Annual Conference and Expo 2013
Conference
IIE Annual Conference and Expo 2013
Sources of information:
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