conference paper published yes Jasmin Pielorz author 49BC895A-F248-11E8-B48F-1D18A9856A87 Christoph Lampert author 40C20FD2-F248-11E8-B48F-1D18A9856A870000-0001-8622-7887 ChLa department ICT-DM: Information and Communication Technologies for Disaster Management Volunteer supporters play an important role in modern crisis and disaster management. In the times of mobile Internet devices, help from thousands of volunteers can be requested within a short time span, thus relieving professional helpers from minor chores or geographically spread-out tasks. However, the simultaneous availability of many volunteers also poses new problems. In particular, the volunteer efforts must be well coordinated, or otherwise situations might emerge in which too many idle volunteers at one location become more of a burden than a relief to the professionals. In this work, we study the task of optimally assigning volunteers to selected locations, e.g. in order to perform regular measurements, to report on damage, or to distribute information or resources to the population in a crisis situation. We formulate the assignment tasks as an optimization problem and propose an effective and efficient solution procedure. Experiments on real data of the Team Österreich, consisting of over 36,000 Austrian volunteers, show the effectiveness and efficiency of our approach. IEEE2016Rennes, France eng 10.1109/ICT-DM.2015.7402041 Pielorz, J., &#38; Lampert, C. (2016). Optimal geospatial allocation of volunteers for crisis management. Presented at the ICT-DM: Information and Communication Technologies for Disaster Management, Rennes, France: IEEE. <a href="https://doi.org/10.1109/ICT-DM.2015.7402041">https://doi.org/10.1109/ICT-DM.2015.7402041</a> J. Pielorz and C. Lampert, “Optimal geospatial allocation of volunteers for crisis management,” presented at the ICT-DM: Information and Communication Technologies for Disaster Management, Rennes, France, 2016. Pielorz J, Lampert C. Optimal geospatial allocation of volunteers for crisis management. In: IEEE; 2016. doi:<a href="https://doi.org/10.1109/ICT-DM.2015.7402041">10.1109/ICT-DM.2015.7402041</a> J. Pielorz, C. Lampert, in:, IEEE, 2016. Pielorz, Jasmin, and Christoph Lampert. <i>Optimal Geospatial Allocation of Volunteers for Crisis Management</i>. 7402041, IEEE, 2016, doi:<a href="https://doi.org/10.1109/ICT-DM.2015.7402041">10.1109/ICT-DM.2015.7402041</a>. Pielorz, Jasmin, and Christoph Lampert. “Optimal Geospatial Allocation of Volunteers for Crisis Management.” IEEE, 2016. <a href="https://doi.org/10.1109/ICT-DM.2015.7402041">https://doi.org/10.1109/ICT-DM.2015.7402041</a>. Pielorz J, Lampert C. 2016. Optimal geospatial allocation of volunteers for crisis management. ICT-DM: Information and Communication Technologies for Disaster Management, 7402041. 17072018-12-11T11:53:35Z2021-01-12T06:52:39Z