Multi-Objective Decision Making for the Fire & Rescue Services - A Scoping Study

这项建议直接涉及与消防和救援服务(FRS)的战略管理有关的研究问题。更具体地说，这是一个确定范围的投标，以确定是否可以使用进化算法(EA)来为消防队部署资源寻找高性能策略，以将生命和财产损失的风险降至最低。进化算法本质上是一类能够处理经典优化和搜索方法无法解决的具有挑战性的复杂问题的算法。它们的优点是它们不需要其他算法所要求的定义良好的目标函数。此外，还应对冲突的约束、多目标搜索空间和其他危险，如离散变量和非线性。投标源于Miles&Rezgui参与EPSRC/CLG联合沙坑，以寻找FRS的综合风险管理规划(IRMP)的研究思路。沙坑导师们建议进行范围竞标，但研究目标有限，因为他们觉得这项技术可能无法应对问题领域。因此，范围划分投标将使申请者和沙坑导师能够评估拟议的战略是否能够应对领域的复杂性，以产生合理的、高性能的解决方案。这项工作将与建筑研究机构(BRE)合作进行，并与CLG的防火和复原局合作，以确保这项工作与FRS的需求相关。BRE的角色是提供消防工程专业知识。

This proposal directly addresses research issues relating to the strategic management of the Fire and Rescue Services (FRS). More specifically it is a scoping bid to determine whether or not Evolutionary Algorithms (EA) can be used to find high performance strategies for a Fire Brigade's deployment of resources to minimise the risk of the loss of life and property. EA are essentially a class of algorithms which are able to cope with challenging, complex problems that cannot be solved by classical optimization and search methods. They have the advantage that they do not need the well defined objective function that is required by other algorithms. Also the cope with conflicting constraints, multi-objective search spaces and other hazards such as discrete variables and non-linearity.The bid arises from the participation by Miles & Rezgui in a joint EPSRC/CLG sandpit to look at research ideas for Integrated Risk Management Planning (IRMP) for the FRS. A scoping bid, with limited research aims, was suggested by the sandpit mentors because they felt that there is a risk that the technology might not be able to cope with the problem domain. The scoping bid will therefore enable the applicants and the sandpit mentors to assess whether or not the proposed strategy can cope with the domain complexity to produce sensible, high performance solutions. This work will be undertaken in collaboration the Building Research Establishment (BRE) and with the Fire and Resilience Directorate of CLG to ensure that the work is relevant to the needs of FRSs. BRE's role is to provide fire engineering expertise.