<b>Research on Trust of Post-disaster Humanitarian Logistics </b>

Abstract

The establishment of post-disaster humanitarian logistics (PD-HL) network is essential for humanitarian relief in emergency events, and the research of trust in PD-HL plays a crucial role in building and implementing humanitarian logistics network. This paper analyzes the trust structure of relief patterns in PD-HL network based on three topology models: ACE (Agency Centric Efforts), PIE (Partially Integrated Efforts) and CAN (Collaborative Aid Networks). Three kinds of influence matrices of PD-HL networks are constructed and simulated through NK model to analyze the trust structure in three indicators including global optimum, the average of local optimum and the number of local optimum. Finally, several recommendations are given for the operations of PD-HL.