The stochastic firefighter problem

G Tennenholtz, C Caramanis, S Mannor - arXiv preprint arXiv:1711.08237, 2017 - arxiv.org
The process ends when the fire can no longer spread. We extend the Firefighter problem
to a probabilistic setting, where the infection is stochastic. We devise a simple policy that only …

[HTML][HTML] The firefighter problem with more than one firefighter on trees

C Bazgan, M Chopin, B Ries - Discrete Applied Mathematics, 2013 - Elsevier
In this paper we study the complexity of generalized versions of the firefighter problem on …
More specifically, we consider the version denoted by Max(S,b)-Fire where b≥2 firefighters

The firefighter problem: Empirical results on random graphs

C García-Martínez, C Blum, FJ Rodriguez… - Computers & Operations …, 2015 - Elsevier
… for the spread and containment of fire on a graph. Once the fire breaks out at a set of vertices,
the goal … Although the problem finds applications in various real-world problems, such as …

[HTML][HTML] The moving firefighter problem

BR Gutiérrez-De-La-Paz, J García-Díaz… - Mathematics, 2022 - mdpi.com
… that incorporates a function τ that determines the time it takes a firefighter to … the original
formulation of the firefighter problem, in this generalization, we assume that the time it takes the

[PDF][PDF] A new survey on the firefighter problem

C Wagner - 2021 - dspace.library.uvic.ca
The main purpose of this thesis is to survey developments on Firefighter and its variants which
have appeared in theThe firefighter problem: A survey of results, directions and questions…

Estimation of distribution algorithms for the firefighter problem

K Michalak - European Conference on Evolutionary Computation in …, 2017 - Springer
… were tested for the Firefighter Problem (FFP). A new model was proposed which … the
relationship between the state of the graph and the positions which are defended by firefighters

Simheuristics for the multiobjective nondeterministic firefighter problem in a time-constrained setting

K Michalak, JD Knowles - European Conference on the Applications of …, 2016 - Springer
… To account for the stochastic nature of the problem the simheuristic approach is used in
which a metaheuristic algorithm uses simulation to evaluate candidate solutions. Also, it is …

The firefighter algorithm for optimization problems

MZ Naser, AZ Naser - Neural Computing and Applications, 2025 - Springer
… Moreover, the stochastic nature of these algorithms often requires multiple runs to
achieve consistent results, which can be computationally expensive [12]. Fortunately, …

The Firefighter problem with dynamic defence costs

E Hunter, J Enright - PloS one, 2026 - journals.plos.org
… are always strictly greater than 0, in the high stochastic case (an added integer uniformly …
heuristics to perform similarly with uniform and highly-stochastic threat-based cost functions. …

The firefighter game with state-varying cost functions

E Hunter, J Enright - International Conference on Complex Networks and …, 2024 - Springer
… We show that The Cost Function Firefighter Problem is … , the weights in weighted firefighter
do not represent costs to defend. In the weighted firefighter problem each node costs the