Online Firefighting on Grids

arXiv1907.07450MaRDI QIDQ6322248FDOQ6322248

Authors: Marc Demange, David Ellison, Raffaella Gentilini 

Publication date: 17 July 2019

Abstract: The Firefighter Problem (FP) is a graph problem originally introduced in 1995 to model the spread of a fire in a graph, which has attracted considerable attention in the literature. The goal is to devise a strategy to employ a given sequence of firefighters on strategic points in the graph in order to contain efficiently the fire (which spreads from each unprotected vertex to all of it neighbours on successive time steps). Recently, an online version of FP---where the number of firefighters available at each turn are revealed in real-time--- has been introduced in the literature and studied on trees. In this paper, we consider the online containment of fire on square grids. In particular, we provide a set of sufficient conditions that allow to solve the online version of the firefighting problem on infinite square grids, illustrating the corresponding fire containment strategies.

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