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An application of membrane computing to humanitarian relief via generalized Nash equilibrium

Year: 2025

Type: article

Abstract: Natural and political disasters, including earthquakes, hurricanes, and tsunamis, but also migration and refugees crisis, need quick and coordinated responses in order to support vulnerable populations. In such disasters, nongovernmental organizations compete with each other for financial donations, while people who need assistance suffer a lack of coordination, congestion in terms of logistics, and duplication of services. From a theoretical point of view, this problem can be formalized as a generalized Nash equilibrium (GNE) problem. This is a generalization of the Nash equilibrium problem, where the agents’ strategies are not fixed but depend on the other agents’ strategies. In this paper, we show that membrane computing can model humanitarian relief as a GNE problem. We propose a family of P systems that compute GNE in this context, and we illustrate their capabilities with Hurricane Katrina in 2005 as a case study.

Source: Journal of Membrane Computing

DOI: 10.1007/s41965-025-00187-y

Authors: Alejandro Luque-Cerpa, David Orellana-Martín, Miguel Á. Gutiérrez-Naranjo

Institutions: Chalmers University of Technology, Universidad de Sevilla

Language: English

Topic: DNA and Biological Computing

Subfield: Molecular Biology

Field: Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology

Domain: Life Sciences

Open Access status: hybrid

Estimated APC paid: $3,290

Funders: European Commission, Chalmers Tekniska Högskola