Disaster Relief Modeling (ILAP)

Author: Paul Isihara and Danilo Diedrichs, with Timotius Kartawijaya, Edwin Townsend, and Kevin Tully

Contents
1. Setting the Scene
2. Discrete Dynamical System Model of Effective Response
3. The PEARL Index and Equitable Distribution
4. Conjoint Analysis and Efficiency Considerations
5. Further Directions
6. Project Solution Hints
References
About the Authors

MATHEMATICS CLASSIFICATIONS:
Dynamical Systems, Data Analysis.

DISCIPLINARY CLASSIFICATIONS:
Disaster relief

PREREQUISITE SKILLS:
Familiarity with summation notation, difference equations, multiple linear regression, basic probability and statistics.

MATHEMATICAL CONCEPTS:
Dynamical systems, optimization, statistically-based conjoint analysis.

ECONOMIC CONCEPTS EXAMINED:
Gini index, cost efficiency, effectiveness/equity.

MATERIALS INCLUDED:
Data about humanitarian relief efforts.

COMPUTING REQUIREMENT:
MATLAB scripts are provided.