Simulation-based optimization of resource placement and emergency response

Proceedings of the 21st Innovative Applications of Artificial Intelligence Conference, IAAI-09

Volumn , Issue , 2009, Pages 47-53

  Bjarnason, Ronald ^a   Tadepalli, Prasad ^a   Fern, Alan ^a   Niedner, Carl ^b  

^a OREGON STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b Coelo Company of Design ^*  (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CURRENT PRACTICES; EMERGENCY RESPONSE; HILL CLIMBING; MEDICAL EMERGENCY; POPULATION CHANGE; RESOURCE PLACEMENT; SIMULATION-BASED OPTIMIZATIONS;

ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE; CHANNEL CAPACITY; COMPUTER SOFTWARE;

OPTIMIZATION;

EID: 74949140187     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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