Optimisation models to enhance resilience in evacuation planning

Goerigk, Marc and Hamacher, Horst W. (2015) Optimisation models to enhance resilience in evacuation planning. Civil Engineering and Environmental Systems, 32 (1-2). pp. 90-99. ISSN 1028-6608

Abstract

We argue that the concepts of resilience in engineering science and robustness in mathematical optimisation are strongly related. Using evacuation planning as an example application, we demonstrate optimisation techniques to improve solution resilience. These include a direct modelling of the uncertainty for stochastic or robust optimisation as well as taking multiple objective functions into account.