Public defibrillator location optimization with supply and demand uncertainty

  • Tagungsort:

    Raum 4A-09, Gebäude 05.20

  • Datum:19. Dezember 2016

     

  • Referent:

    Derya Demirtas, Universität Twente (Niederlande)

  • Zeit:

    17:00

Public defibrillator location optimization with supply and demand uncertainty

Out-of-hospital cardiac arrest (OHCA) is a significant public health issue, and treatment,
namely, cardiopulmonary resuscitation (CPR) and defibrillation, is very time sensitive. Public access
defibrillation programs, which deploy automated external defibrillators (AEDs) for bystander use in
an emergency, reduce the time to defibrillation and improve survival rates. In the Netherlands, a new
civilian response smart phone application alerts registered volunteers when an OHCA occurs in the
vicinity, and directs them to a nearby AED and to the victim. Strategic location of AEDs with respect
to OHCA victims and volunteers is vital to decrease the time between collapse and treatment.
In fact, AED location problem has been studied both by the medical community and operations research
community for over a decade. However since such a civilian response app is relatively new, lay
responder location information has not been incorporated into the AED deployment research. In this
proposal, I tackle a brand new location problem where both demand (OHCA) and supply (AED and
lay responder) locations are subject to uncertainty. Another novelty in this proposal is the concept
of multi-stop coverage: Demand is not met by one type of supplier; instead multiple suppliers are
needed in a specific order (first the lay responder and then the AED). I propose a comprehensive modeling
framework which combines spatial data analytics, statistical analysis, optimization modeling
and geographical information systems (GIS) modeling. This new approach is primarily motivated by
the AED deployment problem, but can be extended to various other settings in which demand and
supply locations are uncertain such as emergency planning and humanitarian logistics.
Bio: Derya Demirtas is an assistant professor at the Center for Healthcare Operations Improvement
& Research (CHOIR) in the Department of Industrial Engineering and Business Information Systems
at the University of Twente. She received her BSc in Industrial Engineering with a double
major in Computer Engineering from the Middle East Technical University, Turkey (2008). She then
received her MMath in Combinatorics & Optimization from the University of Waterloo, Canada
(2010), and her PhD in Industrial Engineering from the University of Toronto, Canada (2016). She
was recognized by the American Heart Association with the Young Investigator Award in 2015.
She won the best poster abstract presentation award by the National Association of EMS Physicians
(NAEMSP) in 2016. She was a finalist for the Three Minute Thesis Competition at the University
of Toronto (2014). She also received the second place in the INFORMS Section on Public Sector
Operations Research (PSOR) best paper competition (2012).