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Efficient multi-objective tabu search for emergency equipment maintenance scheduling in disaster rescue

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The paper describes a mathematical model of the emergency equipment maintenance scheduling problem particularly in disaster rescue operations, which aims to achieve a good balance between operational capability achieved by maintenance, cost-effectiveness, maintenance risks, and reserved maintenance capability for sustainable operations. We design a compact solution encoding that greatly facilitates the search process, and develop an efficient multi-objective tabu search algorithm that evolves a set of solutions towards the Pareto optimal frontier, using a weighted function based on the decision-maker’s preference to guide the search procedures. Simulation experiments and real-world application results demonstrate the effectiveness of our approach.

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Zheng, Y., Chen, S. & Ling, H. Efficient multi-objective tabu search for emergency equipment maintenance scheduling in disaster rescue. Optim Lett 7, 89–100 (2013). https://doi.org/10.1007/s11590-011-0397-9

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