DocumentCode
185336
Title
A bio-inspired model to care for casualties in a disaster
Author
Butincu, Cristian Nicolae ; Craus, Mitica ; Gavrila, Augustin Ionut
Author_Institution
Dept. of Comput. Sci. & Eng., “Gheorghe Asachi” Tech. Univ. of Iasi, Iasi, Romania
fYear
2014
fDate
17-19 Oct. 2014
Firstpage
464
Lastpage
469
Abstract
A bio-inspired model to care for casualties in a disaster is presented and a simulation based on this model is performed and evaluated. The model uses a queuing system inspired by the behavior of immune systems and an ACO-like heuristic for routing casualties across overloaded medical centers. The simulation results are promising. Our model can be modified to be used for the evacuation of population from an affected area in a disaster.
Keywords
ant colony optimisation; disasters; health care; ACO; bio-inspired model; disaster; immune systems; medical centers; queuing system; routing casualties; Biological system modeling; Computational modeling; Dispersion; Hospitals; Immune system; Load modeling; Routing; ant colony optimisation; care; casualties; disaster; heuristic; immune system; queuing; simulation; transport;
fLanguage
English
Publisher
ieee
Conference_Titel
System Theory, Control and Computing (ICSTCC), 2014 18th International Conference
Conference_Location
Sinaia
Type
conf
DOI
10.1109/ICSTCC.2014.6982460
Filename
6982460
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