A stochastic mixed-integer programming approach to optimal resource allocation for wildfire containment
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abstract
Wildfires have been seriously threatening communities and our ecosystems in recent years. It is therefore imperative to deploy fire-fighting resources as early as possible before small fires become huge and destructive. This paper proposes a stochastic mixed-integer programming approach to the difficult problem of fire containment for initial attack. The problem involves determining the optimal mix of fire-fighting resources to contain a fire under uncertainty in fire evolution. Deterministic approaches assume that fire growth is known. However, in reality fire spread is uncertain and renders the deterministic models inadequate for this problem.