Double Ant Colony System to Improve Accessibility after a Disaster

Víctor Sacristán, Antonio Jiménez-Martín, Alfonso Mateos

2016

Abstract

We propose a novel double ant colony system to deal with accessibility issues after a natural or man-made disaster. The aim is to maximize the number of survivors that reach the nearest regional center (center of economic and social activity in the region) in a minimum time by planning which rural roads damaged by the disaster should be repaired given the available financial and human resources. The proposed algorithm is illustrated by means of a large instance based on the Haiti natural disasters in August-September 2008.

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Sacristán V., Jiménez-Martín A. and Mateos A. (2016). Double Ant Colony System to Improve Accessibility after a Disaster . In Proceedings of 5th the International Conference on Operations Research and Enterprise Systems - Volume 1: ICORES, ISBN 978-989-758-171-7, pages 79-86. DOI: 10.5220/0005651900790086


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@conference{icores16,
author={Víctor Sacristán and Antonio Jiménez-Martín and Alfonso Mateos},
title={Double Ant Colony System to Improve Accessibility after a Disaster},
booktitle={Proceedings of 5th the International Conference on Operations Research and Enterprise Systems - Volume 1: ICORES,},
year={2016},
pages={79-86},
publisher={SciTePress},
organization={INSTICC},
doi={10.5220/0005651900790086},
isbn={978-989-758-171-7},
}


in EndNote Style

TY - CONF
JO - Proceedings of 5th the International Conference on Operations Research and Enterprise Systems - Volume 1: ICORES,
TI - Double Ant Colony System to Improve Accessibility after a Disaster
SN - 978-989-758-171-7
AU - Sacristán V.
AU - Jiménez-Martín A.
AU - Mateos A.
PY - 2016
SP - 79
EP - 86
DO - 10.5220/0005651900790086