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International Conference on Information Systems for Crisis Response and Management in Mediterranean Countries

ISCRAM-med 2016: Information Systems for Crisis Response and Management in Mediterranean Countries pp 211–225Cite as

Towards an Agent-Based Humanitarian Relief Inventory Management System

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Natural disasters have reached unpredictable intensity around the world during the last two decades. Therefore, rapid response to the urgent relief in an efficient way is necessary for alleviation of disaster impact in the affected areas. Humanitarian Supply Chain Management plays a crucial role for disaster response management. Warehouse and inventory management is a key activity. Its effectiveness and efficiency are challenging issues during emergency response. In fact, by ensuring appropriate fast and well organized distribution of emergency relief supplies, damages would be mitigated and more lives saved. This paper draws first a literature review to better define humanitarian supply chain management and highlight inventory management characteristics and needs in a post-disasters context. An agent-based model and a simulator are developed in order to enable decision makers find efficient scenarios to respond effectively to urgent requests following a disaster. First simulation results are discussed.

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  1. Univ. Manouba, ENSI, RIADI LR99ES26, Campus Universitaire, Manouba, 2010, Tunisie

    Maroua Kessentini & Narjès Bellamine Ben Saoud

  2. SQLI Services, Technopole Manouba, Manouba, Tunisia

    Maroua Kessentini & Sami Sboui

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  1. Universidad Carlos III de Madrid , Madrid, Spain

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  2. ENSI, Maounba University ENSI, Tunis, Tunisia

    Narjès Bellamine Ben Saoud

  3. LIG, University of Grenoble LIG, St Martin d'Heres, France

    Julie Dugdale

  4. University of Toulouse Capitole , Toulouse, France

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Kessentini, M., Ben Saoud, N.B., Sboui, S. (2016). Towards an Agent-Based Humanitarian Relief Inventory Management System. In: Díaz, P., Bellamine Ben Saoud, N., Dugdale, J., Hanachi, C. (eds) Information Systems for Crisis Response and Management in Mediterranean Countries. ISCRAM-med 2016. Lecture Notes in Business Information Processing, vol 265. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-47093-1_18

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