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Pappis, C. P; Rachaniotis, N. P and Dasaklis, T A deterministic resource scheduling model in epidemic logistics. Proceedings of the 4th Multidisciplinary International Scheduling Conference: Theory and Applications (MISTA 2009), 10-12 Aug 2009, Dublin, Ireland, pages 570-580, 2009.

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Available resources to tackle an epidemic infection are usually limited, while time and effort required to control it are increasing functions of the starting time of the containment effort. The problem of scheduling limited available resources, when there are several areas where the population is infected, is considered. A deterministic model, appropriate for large populations, where random interactions can be averaged out, is used for the epidemic's rate of spread. The problem is tackled using the concept of deteriorating jobs, i.e. the model represents increasing loss rate as more susceptibles become infected, and increasing time and effort needed for the epidemic's containment.


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@INPROCEEDINGS{2009-570-580-P, author = {C. P. Pappis and N. P. Rachaniotis and T. Dasaklis},
title = {A deterministic resource scheduling model in epidemic logistics},
booktitle = {Proceedings of the 4th Multidisciplinary International Scheduling Conference: Theory and Applications (MISTA 2009), 10-12 Aug 2009, Dublin, Ireland},
year = {2009},
editor = {J. Blazewicz and M. Drozdowski and G. Kendall and B. McCollum},
pages = {570--580},
note = {Paper},
abstract = {Available resources to tackle an epidemic infection are usually limited, while time and effort required to control it are increasing functions of the starting time of the containment effort. The problem of scheduling limited available resources, when there are several areas where the population is infected, is considered. A deterministic model, appropriate for large populations, where random interactions can be averaged out, is used for the epidemic's rate of spread. The problem is tackled using the concept of deteriorating jobs, i.e. the model represents increasing loss rate as more susceptibles become infected, and increasing time and effort needed for the epidemic's containment.},
owner = {gxk},
timestamp = {2010.10.11},
webpdf = {2009-570-580-P.pdf} }