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In forest fire fighting, time and effort required to control a fire increase if fire containment effort is delayed. The problem of scheduling multiple resources employed as parallel identical or non-identical processors in order to contain N≥2 fires may be tackled using the concept of deteriorating jobs. In this paper, the above problem is stated and a model is formulated, the criterion being to maximize the total remaining value of the burnt areas and a real-time synchronous heuristic algorithm is proposed. The heuristic algorithm’s efficiency was compared to real data provided by Greek Fire Corps from a severe wildfire near Athens in June-July, 2007.
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Pappis, C.P., Rachaniotis, N.P. Scheduling in a multi-processor environment with deteriorating job processing times and decreasing values: the case of forest fires. J Heuristics 16, 617–632 (2010). https://doi.org/10.1007/s10732-009-9110-x
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