Genetic Algorithm for Solving Problems in Emergency Management

Abstract

Emergency management is an important subject in both management science and social science, and has been paid more and more attention. Emergency facility location problem and optimal allocation of emergency facilities problem are two significant problems in emergency management. However,efficient algorithms for solving NP problems in the above two problems are few. In such cases, the application of evolutionary algorithms is a good choice. In this paper, we introduce two mathematical models of the above two problems, and transform them into integer programming questions, which are both NP problems. Then we give two experiments.The solutions to the experiments are obtained by applying genetic algorithm. The experiments results show that genetic algorithm could solve the problems effectively and efficiently. This research gives us anew direction for the further research in emergency management.