Browsing Research Articles (Industrial and Systems Engineering) by Subject "Disaster relief"

Browsing Research Articles (Industrial and Systems Engineering) by Subject "Disaster relief"

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  • Decision support in supply chain management for disaster relief in Somalia 
    Van Wyk, Estelle; Yadavalli, Venkata S. Sarma; Carstens, Herman (Springer, 2013)
    Somalia, a country situated in Eastern Africa has been struggling between rival warlords and an inability to deal with famine. Diseases have resulted to the deaths of up to millions of people. According to a New York Times ...
  • Modelling of uncertainty in minimising the cost of inventory for disaster relief 
    Van Wyk, Estelle; Bean, Willemiena Lodewika; Yadavalli, Venkata S. Sarma (Southern African Institute for Industrial Engineering, 2011-05)
    Natural disasters - and even those caused by people - are largely unpredictable. So disasters need to be researched and their impact fully understood, so that the aid supplies required to ensure survival during and after ...