Optimal response against bioterror attack on airport terminal |
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| Authors: | Oded Berman Arieh Gavious Mozart BC Menezes |
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| Institution: | 1. Rotman School of Management, University of Toronto, 105 St. George Street, Toronto, Ontario, Canada M5S 3E6;2. Faculty of Business Administration, Ono Academic College, Kiryat Ono 55000, Israel and Department of Industrial Engineering and Management, Ben-Gurion University, Beer Sheva 84105, Israel;3. MIT-Zaragoza International Logistics Program, Zaragoza Logistics Center, Edificio Nayade 5, C/Bari 55 PLAZA, Zaragoza 50197, Spain |
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| Abstract: | 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. |
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| Keywords: | OR in medicine Bioterror Penalty methods Resource allocation OR in health services |
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