Data processing: financial – business practice – management – or co – Automated electrical financial or business practice or... – Operations research or analysis
Reexamination Certificate
2011-03-29
2011-03-29
Jasmin, Lynda C (Department: 3624)
Data processing: financial, business practice, management, or co
Automated electrical financial or business practice or...
Operations research or analysis
C705S002000
Reexamination Certificate
active
07917380
ABSTRACT:
The present invention provides a system and method for strategic budgeting of initial response for managing wildfires. According to the present invention, stochastic-integer-programming-based constrained optimization techniques are employed to develop a strategic budget by optimally allocating disaster management resources to disaster events belonging to scenarios associated with occurrence probabilities. According to the invention, certain machine-readable data describing fires may be subjected to computerized data processing, ultimately producing a determination of valid disaster management resources for each fire event, which may be used for strategic budgeting of initial responses for managing wildfires.
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Kumar Tarun
Parija Gyana Ranjan
Xi Haifeng
International Business Machines - Corporation
Jasmin Lynda C
Kaufman Stephen C.
Miller Alan
Whitham Curtis Christofferson & Cook, P.C.
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