A MANAGEMENT TOOL BASED ON DISCRETE EVENT SIMULATION FOR HUMANITARIAN SUPPORT

Humanitarian aid is material or logistical assistance provided for humanitarian purposes, typically in response to humanitarian crises including natural disasters and man-made disaster. Humanitarian assistance requiring short response time windows in almost the whole world may be subject to long que...

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Main Authors: Santos, Vlademir Fazio, Daoud Yacoub, Michel, Ursini, Edson L., Martins, Paulo S.
Format: Conference Proceeding
Language:English
Subjects:
Analytical models
Humanitarian activities
Load modeling
Mathematical model
Planning
Servers
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Summary:Humanitarian aid is material or logistical assistance provided for humanitarian purposes, typically in response to humanitarian crises including natural disasters and man-made disaster. Humanitarian assistance requiring short response time windows in almost the whole world may be subject to long queues due to managing problems, e.g., the lack of control and/or inefficient infrastructure. This work tackles such challenge by proposing a low-cost planning and managing model and method based on a discrete-event simulation mirror connected through WEB tools to a near or far management level. The usual configuration of parallel servers (for instance, supported by local RFID monitoring) is implemented by a discrete-event simulation model that is validated by Jackson Networks (and vice versa). The results show a flexible model that may identify bottlenecks in advance in order to accommodate traffic flow variations.
ISSN:1558-4305
DOI:10.1109/WSC.2018.8632484