Article ID: | iaor20072028 |
Country: | United Kingdom |
Volume: | 57 |
Issue: | 6 |
Start Page Number: | 727 |
End Page Number: | 734 |
Publication Date: | Jun 2006 |
Journal: | Journal of the Operational Research Society |
Authors: | Drezner Zvi, Salhi S., Drezner T. |
Keywords: | location, programming: multiple criteria |
In this paper, we formulate the casualty collection points (CCPs) location problem as a multi-objective model. We propose a minimax regret multi-objective formulation that follows the idea of the minimax regret concept in decision analysis. The proposed multi-objective model is to minimize the maximum per cent deviation of individual objectives from their best possible objective function value. This new multi-objective formulation can be used in other multi-objective models as well. Our specific CCP model consists of five objectives. A descent heuristic and a tabu search procedure are proposed for its solution. The procedure is illustrated on Orange County, California.