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As a result, our study presents the Calculation Logic Optimisation Framework (CLOF), a novel data-driven approach that enhances decision-making intelligently and strategically through learning-based predictive and multi-objective optimisation, utilising the 911 Emergency Calls data set, comprising more than half a million records from Montgomery County, Pennsylvania, USA. The CLOF examines patterns over space and time and uses optimised calculation logic to reduce response latency and increase decision reliability. The suggested framework outperforms the standard Decision Tree, Random Forest, Gradient Boosting, and XGBoost baselines, achieving 94.68% accuracy, a log-loss of 0.081, and a reliability score (R2) of 0.955. The mean response time error is reported to have been reduced by 19%, illustrating robustness to real-world uncertainty. 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