Nagurney Co-Authors Disaster Relief Article
Ladimer S. Nagurney, Professor of Electrical, Computer, and Biomedical Engineering in CETA is the co-author of the article, A Stochastic Disaster Relief Game Theory Network Model, published in SN Operations Research Forum volume 1, Article number: 10.
The article constructs a novel game theory model for disaster relief consisting of multiple humanitarian organizations, multiple purchase locations for the disaster relief items, multiple hubs for storage, and multiple freight service provision options, ultimately, to multiple points of demand. Each humanitarian organization solves a two-stage stochastic optimization problem, where, in the first stage, it seeks to determine the optimal purchase quantities for storage at multiple hubs, subject to a budget constraint, and, in the second stage, which handles multiple disaster scenarios with associated probabilities of occurrence, each HO must determine how much to deliver from the hubs to multiple points of demand, and how many additional relief items to purchase, if need be, for delivery. The humanitarian organizations compete for financial donations and consider multiple costs in their objective functions, along with a weighted altruism component, since they are nonprofits.
Nagurney's co-authors are Professor Anna Nagurney and Mojtaba Salarpour of the Isenberg School of Management at the University of Massachusetts Amherst and Professor June Dong of SUNY Oswego.Because of its current relevance, the article can be downloaded from the SN Operations Research Forum Website at https://link.springer.com/content/pdf/10.1007/s43069-020-0010-0.pdf