Collaborative CDI-Type II: Cyber Enabled Discovery System for Advanced Multidisciplinary Study of Humanitarian Logistics for Disaster Response

这项研究将开发一个基于网络的发现系统，整合计算机、交通、数学和社会科学的最新思维和方法，用于人道主义救灾中的后勤管理。它将(1)创建新的人道主义物流模型范例，明确考虑当前技术没有研究的两个关键方面：非滞后剥夺成本(无法获得特定物品或服务)和物资汇聚(物资和设备的实际移动)；(2)开发适当的模型，将人类痛苦表示为剥夺成本；(3)开发分析模型，以量化和影响捐款的数量、类型和到达模式；(4)洞察媒体对需求的框定和物资汇聚之间的联系；(5)确定改变捐赠者行为的机制；以及，(6)开发算法和启发式来求解这些公式。这将导致正确考虑后勤决策对受影响人口的影响的模型，更有效的交付战略，更协调和有效的救援流动，以及入口点较少的拥堵。这项研究是一项雄心勃勃的、变革性的努力，旨在建立一个全面的、定量的理解，即人道主义后勤应该如何考虑剥夺成本和紧急捐助者对灾难的反应。这是基于对交付行动的影响、媒体对灾难事件的描述和应对需求的最先进的经济、物流和社会科学研究。这项研究的核心影响将是改善灾难应对期间关键物资的分配和交付，以及与紧急分布的捐赠点更好地协调，从而提高国家-S的应急能力。研究小组将通过以下方式最大限度地发挥更广泛的影响：(1)将研究纳入本科和研究生课程；(2)让本科生和研究生担任研究助理；(3)利用外联活动向本科生和高中生传播研究成果，并鼓励他们从事研究；(4)招募妇女和少数族裔学生；(5)在对人道主义后勤和救灾感兴趣的专业人员和研究人员中传播项目成果。

This research will develop a cyber-enabled discovery system, integrating state of the art thinking and methodologies from computer, transportation, mathematical, and social sciences, for management of logistics in humanitarian responses to disasters. It will (1) create new paradigms of humanitarian logistic models that explicitly consider two key aspects not studied by the current techniques: non-hysteretic deprivation costs (lack of access to a given good or service), and materiel convergence (physical movement of supplies and equipment); (2) develop appropriate models to represent human suffering as a deprivation cost; (3) develop analytical models to quantify and influence the amount, type, and arrival patterns of donations; (4) gain insight into the links between media framing of needs and materiel convergence; (5) define mechanisms to modify donor behavior; and, (6) develop algorithms and heuristics to solve these formulations. This will lead to models that correctly consider the impacts of logistic decisions on the impacted populations, more effective delivery strategies, more coordinated and effective relief flows, and less congestion at entry points.This research is an ambitious and transformative effort to build a holistic, quantitative understanding of how humanitarian logistics should consider deprivation costs and emergent donor response to disasters. This is based on state of the art economic, logistic, and social science research into the impacts of delivery actions, media portrayal of disaster events, and response needs. The core impact of this research will be improved allocation and delivery of critical supplies during disaster response, as well as better coordination with emergent distributed donor sites, leading to improvement of the nation?s emergency response capabilities. The research team will maximize the broader impacts through: (1) the integration of research into undergraduate and graduate courses; (2) the involvement of undergraduate and graduate students as research assistants; (3) the use of outreach events to communicate research results to undergraduate and high school students and stimulate them into research; (4) the recruitment of women and minority students; and (5) the dissemination of project findings among professionals and researchers with interest in humanitarian logistics and disaster response.