Benchmarking a fast, satisficing vehicle routing algorithm for public health emergency planning and response: "Good Enough for Jazz".

ABSTRACT: Due to situational fluidity and intrinsic uncertainty of emergency response, there needs to be a fast vehicle routing algorithm that meets the constraints of the situation, thus the receiving-staging-storing-distributing (RSSD) algorithm was developed. Benchmarking the quality of this satisficing algorithm is important to understand the consequences of not engaging with the NP-Hard task of vehicle routing problem. This benchmarking will inform whether the RSSD algorithm is producing acceptable and consistent solutions to be used in decision support systems for emergency response planning. We devise metrics in the domain space of emergency planning, response, and medical countermeasure dispensing in order to assess the quality of RSSD solutions. We conduct experiments and perform statistica

SUBMITTER: McDaniel EL 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC10495958 | biostudies-literature | 2023

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature