Wildland fires have been a rising problem on the worldwide level, generating ecological and economic losses. Specifically, between wildland fire types, uncontrolled fires are critical due …
A central challenge in disaster risk management (DRM) is that there are key dependencies and uncertainty between the decisions made at the mitigation, preparedness, response, and …
Soon, a new generation of Collaborative Robots embodying Human-Robot Teams (HRTs) is expected to be more widely adopted in manufacturing. The adoption of this technology …
The resources available to tackle an epidemic infection are usually limited, while the time and effort required to control it are increasing functions of the starting time of the containment …
In this study, we consider scheduling problems with convex resource dependent processing times and deteriorating jobs, in which the processing time of a job is a function of its starting …
The significant increase in large-scale wildfire events in recent decades, caused primarily by climate change, has resulted in a growing number of aerial resources being used in …
M Van Der Merwe, JP Minas, M Ozlen… - Canadian Journal of …, 2015 - cdnsciencepub.com
Incident management teams (IMTs) are responsible for managing the response to wildfires. One of the objectives of IMTs is the protection of assets and infrastructure. In this paper, we …
Optimal planning of the amount and type of resources needed for extinguishing a forest fire is a task that has been addressed in the literature, using models obtained from operational …
YT Xu, Y Zhang, X Huang - Applied Mathematical Modelling, 2014 - Elsevier
Scheduling research has increasingly taken the concept of deterioration into consideration. In this paper, we study a single machine group scheduling problem with deterioration effect …