Goal programming approach for optimal budget allocation for national analysis of wildland fire management

A computer program product comprising a computer readable medium having recorded thereon a computer program for enabling a processor in a computer system for allocating resources in a business model, the computer program performing the steps of:

• determining a plurality of goals for a specified business problem;
• inputting a plurality of data parameters into a computer program embodied in a computer readable medium read by a computer, the data parameters representing each of the goals;
• analyzing the data parameters representing each of the plurality of goals to develop a problem set representing the data parameters;
• inputting target criteria into the computer program, the target criteria relating to each of the goals;
• developing a solution instruction set using the target criteria and the problem set;
• developing a solution model from the solution instruction set;
• repeating the steps of inputting target criteria, developing the solution instruction set, and developing the solution model to develop additional solution models;
• and
• selecting an optimal solution model.