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Mathematical programming applications in the analysis of the deployment and utilization of fire-fighting resources

Mathematical programming applications in the analysis of the deployment and utilization of... This paper gives a brief review of some applications of mathematical programming in the analysis of the deployment of fire engines. We discuss a semi-Markov decision process (linear programming) formulation of the problem of deciding how many fire engines to dispatch to a new alarm, a staged integer programming formulation of the problem of relocating fire engines to rebalance city-wide protection when extremely large fires deplete part of the city, and simple non-linear integer programming formulations of strategic resource allocation problems. All analyses have resulted in policy recommendations that have influenced current operations of the New York City Fire Department. http://www.deepdyve.com/assets/images/DeepDyve-Logo-lg.png ACM SIGMAP Bulletin Association for Computing Machinery

Mathematical programming applications in the analysis of the deployment and utilization of fire-fighting resources

ACM SIGMAP Bulletin , Volume (14) – May 1, 1973

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Publisher
Association for Computing Machinery
Copyright
Copyright © 1973 by ACM Inc.
ISSN
0163-5786
DOI
10.1145/1216982.1216983
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Abstract

This paper gives a brief review of some applications of mathematical programming in the analysis of the deployment of fire engines. We discuss a semi-Markov decision process (linear programming) formulation of the problem of deciding how many fire engines to dispatch to a new alarm, a staged integer programming formulation of the problem of relocating fire engines to rebalance city-wide protection when extremely large fires deplete part of the city, and simple non-linear integer programming formulations of strategic resource allocation problems. All analyses have resulted in policy recommendations that have influenced current operations of the New York City Fire Department.

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ACM SIGMAP BulletinAssociation for Computing Machinery

Published: May 1, 1973

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