This paper presents a learning algorithm used to allocate tasks to agents in an uncertain real-time environment. In such environment, tasks have to be analyzed and allocated really fast for the multiagent system to be effective. To analyze those tasks, described by a lot of attributes, we have used a selective perception technique to enable agents to narrow down the description of each task by ...

One of the main consequences climate change is extreme weather conditions that cause droughts, aridity, torrential rains, cyclones, and storms. The author’s twenty- year experience as a professional firefighter also supports number interventions increased due to conditions. fires decreased; however, technical rescues (damages caused mainly by storms water) show an increasing trend in Hungary. a...

The Firefighter Problem was proposed in 1995 [16] as a deterministic discrete-time model for the spread (and containment) of a fire. Its applications reach from real fires to the spreading of diseases and the containment of floods. Furthermore, it can be used to model the spread of computer viruses or viral marketing in communication networks. In this work, we study the problem from a game-theo...

Approximately 800,000 firefighters in the United States are volunteer firefighters and 300,000 are career firefighters. Volunteer firefighters primarily serve communities with fewer than 25,000 inhabitants, whereas most career firefighters serve communities of more than 25,000 persons. To characterize fatalities among volunteer and career firefighters, CDC analyzed data from the U.S. Fire Admin...

We introduce a new graph parameter called the burning number, inspired by contact processes on graphs such as graph bootstrap percolation, and graph searching paradigms such as Firefighter. The burning number measures the speed of the spread of contagion in a graph; the lower the burning number, the faster the contagion spreads. We provide algorithmic results on the burning number, and prove th...