A Multi-objective Emergency Scheduling Model for Forest Fires with Priority Areas

Abstract

With global warming, the probability of forest fires is increasing greatly, and more research attention has been paid to forest fires emergency scheduling. This paper addresses a resource-constrained emergency scheduling problem for dealing with forest fires with priority disaster areas. It aims to determine an optimal fire-fighting scheduling plan for multiple forest fire points to minimize the total transport distance and the fire extinguishing rescue time, simultaneously. To effectively solve this problem, we formulate a multi-objective mixed-integer linear programming model, and an iterative and fuzzy logic decision-making based on ε-constraint method is designed to obtain a preferred emergency scheduling scheme. Finally, the computational results on benchmark and randomly generate test instances verify the effectiveness and feasibility of the proposed model and method.