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2022 | OriginalPaper | Chapter
14. Application of a Markov Decision Process in Collection Center Operations
Authors : Irais Mora-Ochomogo, Marco Serrato, Jaime Mora-Vargas, Raha Akhavan-Tabatabaei
Published in: Humanitarian Logistics from the Disaster Risk Reduction Perspective
Publisher: Springer International Publishing
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Abstract
With the increase of disasters around the world, the need to improve the response becomes crucial. In many countries worldwide, this response arrives in for of in-kind donations. This chapter presents two numerical applications of a Markov Decision Process. In the first one, the existence of a Monotone Optimal Non-Decreasing Policy is tested under the five conditions defined by Puterman. The second is a case study of a hurricane Katia in Mexico where the behavior of the policy is evaluated, and a sensitivity analysis of the operating costs is performed.