Fire containment in grids of dimension three and higher

Discrete Applied Mathematics

Volumn 155, Issue 17, 2007, Pages 2257-2268

  Develin, Mike ^a   Hartke, Stephen G ^b  

^a AMERICAN INSTITUTE OF MATHEMATICS   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS AT URBANA CHAMPAIGN   (United States)

Author keywords

Containment strategy; Firefighter; Vaccination strategy

Indexed keywords

DISCRETE TIME CONTROL SYSTEMS; INTEGER PROGRAMMING; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; NUMERICAL METHODS; PROBLEM SOLVING; THREE DIMENSIONAL;

CONTAINMENT STRATEGY; FIRE CONTAINMENT; FIREFIGHTERS; VACCINATION STRATEGY;

FIRE CONTROL SYSTEMS;

EID: 34648840535     PISSN: 0166218X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.dam.2007.06.002     Document Type: Article

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