UK Partner
Seda Sucu, Dr. Faculty of Technology
Ukraine Partner.
Nataliia Volkova, Associate Professor Department of applied mathematics and information technologies, Institute of Computer Systems
Co-Investigators
Prof Djamila Ouelhadj Job Title Professor of OR School/Faculty Mathematics and Physics, Faculty of Technology, University of Portsmouth,UK
Nima Dadashzadeh Dr., Faculty of Technology, University of Portsmouth, UK
Danylo Horpenko, PhD student Department of Information Systems, Institute of Computer Systems, Odesa Polytechnic National University, Ukraine
Project objectives
Increasing the reliability of decision-making for the tasks of transport logistics for teams of volunteers play an important role welfare of Ukraine in particular, ensuring the delivery of logistics facilities in conditions of dynamic changes in the external environment during and post-crisis. The results of this project will help teams of volunteers provide the necessary assistance to vulnerable groups of the population as soon as possible, at minimal cost.
This project relates to items 2 (Digitization of social and humanitarian processes in the conditions of military operations and post-war reconstruction of the country) and 32 (Intelligent information and information-analytical technologies, integrated systems of databases and knowledge, national information resources for the sphere of security and defense.) of the research list published by the Ukraine Ministry of Education and Science (MoES, 2022).
The volunteer movement as a form of social activity, aimed at providing non-state assistance to the segments of the population that especially need it, has existed for a long time. Until recently, the objects of volunteer assistance were mainly groups of people who suffered from natural disasters, social cataclysms, and catastrophes. Thus, the Law of Ukraine "On Volunteering" specifies the following areas of volunteering: assistance to the poor, the unemployed, those with many children the homeless, homeless persons; providing care for the sick, disabled, single, elderly and other persons who, due to their physical, material or other characteristics, need support and assistance; providing assistance to citizens who have suffered as a result of an emergency situation of a man-made or natural nature.
Volunteers provide assistance to military units; collection and delivery of humanitarian aid to the population; transportation of people from dangerous zones (Рaladych, O. et al., 2021), which is the task of transport logistics.
Different methods of multiobjective optimization are used to solve this problem if the transportation conditions are stable. In the conditions of hostilities, the situation on the routes of cargo delivery is dynamically changing, so it is necessary to quickly obtain data of the routes state and take them into account when deciding on the choice of the best route. Obtaining operational data of the routes state is a difficult task.
Multi-criteria decision-making (MCDM) methods that allow taking into account and processing different types of data (Volkova, N. et al., 2018-2021) can be applied to solve logistics tasks under conditions of dynamic changes in the external environment (Gorpenko D. (2022)).
Project goals
The project is aimed at reducing the decision-making time by the coordinator of the volunteer team and increasing the reliability of the decision on the problem of transport logistics by obtaining operational data of the routes state from expert volunteers on separate sections of the routes through a single platform (mobile decision support system (mDSS) based on the MCDM methods).
In this project we aim to develop method of forming collective expert volunteer’s assessment and project of the mDSS to receive mobile assistance in solving transport logistics problems in a dynamically changing state of the external environment based on the on the conceptual model of decision-making (Gorpenko D.(2022).
Role of each Partner
UK partners will:
- Selection and definition of the criteria implemented in the mDSS
- Defining the uncertainties
- Supporting the design and validation of the solution algorithm for finding recovery routes
- Design the structure and prepare the early draft of the journal and conference paper
Ukraine Partner will help the UK partners by:
- Employing a research assistant in Ukraine
- Develop method of forming collective expert volunteer’s assessment
- Develop project of the mDSS for support the volunteer team
- Writing the required parts for journal and conference paper
Timing
Project Start Date: 15 March 2023
Project End Date: 31 August 2023
Expected results
1. One conference paper – OR65 (Operational Research Society Annual Conference) – 12-14 September 2023
2. One journal paper- Journal of the Operational Research Society (JORS)-
Title: Mobile Decision Support System in transport logistics for volunteer teams in conditions of dynamic changes in the external environment
