---
_id: '1707'
abstract:
- lang: eng
  text: "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.\r\nIn 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."
acknowledgement: The DRIVER FP7 project has received funding from the European Unions
  Seventh Framework Programme for research, technological development and demonstration
  under grant agreement no 607798. RE-ACTA was funded within the framework of the
  Austrian Security Research Programme KIRAS by the Federal Ministry for Transport,
  Innovation and Technology.
article_number: '7402041'
author:
- first_name: Jasmin
  full_name: Pielorz, Jasmin
  id: 49BC895A-F248-11E8-B48F-1D18A9856A87
  last_name: Pielorz
- first_name: Christoph
  full_name: Lampert, Christoph
  id: 40C20FD2-F248-11E8-B48F-1D18A9856A87
  last_name: Lampert
  orcid: 0000-0001-8622-7887
citation:
  ama: '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>'
  apa: '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>'
  chicago: 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>.
  ieee: '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.'
  ista: 'Pielorz J, Lampert C. 2016. Optimal geospatial allocation of volunteers for
    crisis management. ICT-DM: Information and Communication Technologies for Disaster
    Management, 7402041.'
  mla: 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>.
  short: J. Pielorz, C. Lampert, in:, IEEE, 2016.
conference:
  end_date: 2015-12-02
  location: Rennes, France
  name: 'ICT-DM: Information and Communication Technologies for Disaster Management'
  start_date: 2015-11-30
date_created: 2018-12-11T11:53:35Z
date_published: 2016-02-11T00:00:00Z
date_updated: 2021-01-12T06:52:39Z
day: '11'
department:
- _id: ChLa
doi: 10.1109/ICT-DM.2015.7402041
language:
- iso: eng
month: '02'
oa_version: None
publication_status: published
publisher: IEEE
publist_id: '5429'
quality_controlled: '1'
scopus_import: 1
status: public
title: Optimal geospatial allocation of volunteers for crisis management
type: conference
user_id: 3E5EF7F0-F248-11E8-B48F-1D18A9856A87
year: '2016'
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