A balanced approach for hazardous waste allocation problem

Author

Kanoun, Ines ; Masmoudi, Youssef ; Chabchoub, Habib ; Aouni, Belaid

Author_Institution

High Inst. of Ind. Manage., Univ. of Sfax, Sfax, Tunisia

fYear

2013

fDate

28-30 April 2013

Firstpage

1

Lastpage

6

Abstract

The hazardous waste management is composed of three components: the allocation of the different hazardous waste generators, the hazardous waste routing and the hazardous waste location problems. In this paper, we focus on the allocation problem. It is very important to perform this task since it affects the location and the routing problems. Minimizing the risk and maximizing the equity distribution of risk are the major objectives of the hazardous waste management. Hence, the use of clustering approach to classify the hazardous waste generators needs to be balanced. In this regard, a balancing approach is proposed to ensure the equity among the hazardous waste clusters.

Keywords

hazards; pattern clustering; risk management; waste management; balancing approach; hazardous waste clustering; hazardous waste generator allocation; hazardous waste management; hazardous waste routing; risk minimisation; Clustering algorithms; Generators; Partitioning algorithms; Resource management; Routing; Transportation; Waste management; Balancing; Clustering; Equity; Hazardous Waste Allocation; K-Means Algorithm; Wave Algorithm;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Modeling, Simulation and Applied Optimization (ICMSAO), 2013 5th International Conference on

Conference_Location

Hammamet

Print_ISBN

978-1-4673-5812-5

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/ICMSAO.2013.6552690

Filename

6552690