Journal
EUROPEAN JOURNAL OF OPERATIONAL RESEARCH
Volume 219, Issue 2, Pages 415-424Publisher
ELSEVIER SCIENCE BV
DOI: 10.1016/j.ejor.2011.12.036
Keywords
OR in medicine; Bioterror; Penalty methods; Resource allocation; OR in health services
Funding
- Natural Sciences and Engineering Council of Canada
- Subprograma Ramon y Cajal, Direccion General de Investigacion y Gestion del Plan Nacional de I + D, Spain [RYC-2011-08762]
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We consider a potential bioterror attack on an airport. After the attack is identified, the government is faced with the problem of how to allocate limited emergency resources (human resources, vaccines, etc.) efficiently. The government is assumed to make a one-time resource allocation decision. The optimal allocation problem is discussed and it is shown how available information on the number of infected passengers can be incorporated into the model. Estimation for parameters of the cost function (number of deaths after the epidemic is over) is provided based on known epidemic models. The models proposed in the paper are demonstrated with a case study using real airport data. (C) 2011 Elsevier B.V. All rights reserved.
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