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- Title
A conceptual evolutionary aseismic decision support framework for hospitals.
- Authors
Hu, Yufeng; Dargush, Gary; Shao, Xiaoyun
- Abstract
In this paper, aconceptual evolutionary framework for aseismic decision support for hospitalsthat attempts to integrate a range of engineering and sociotechnical models is presented. Genetic algorithms are applied to find the optimal decision sets. A case study is completed to demonstrate how the frameworkmay applytoa specific hospital.The simulations show that the proposed evolutionary decision support framework is able to discover robust policy sets in either uncertain or fixed environments. The framework also qualitatively identifies some of the characteristicbehavior of the critical care organization. Thus, by utilizing the proposedframework, the decision makers are able to make more informed decisions, especially toenhance the seismic safety of the hospitals.
- Subjects
EARTHQUAKE resistant design; DECISION support systems; HOSPITAL engineering departments; GENETIC algorithms; MATHEMATICAL models; SIMULATION methods &; models; ROBUST control; CASE studies
- Publication
Earthquake Engineering & Engineering Vibration, 2012, Vol 11, Issue 4, p499
- ISSN
1671-3664
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1007/s11803-012-0137-x