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Author |
Massimiliano De Leoni; Fabio De Rosa; Andrea Marrella; Massimo Mecella; Antonella Poggi; Alenka Krek; Francesco Manti |
Title |
Emergency management: From user requirements to a flexible P2P architecture |
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Conference Article |
Year |
2007 |
Publication |
Intelligent Human Computer Systems for Crisis Response and Management, ISCRAM 2007 Academic Proceedings Papers |
Abbreviated Journal |
ISCRAM 2007 |
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Issue |
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Pages |
271-279 |
Keywords |
Civil defense; Design; Disasters; Risk management; Civil protection; Continuous interactions; Emergency management systems; Emergency scenario; European research project; High level architecture; Peer-to-peer architectures; User centered designs; Information management |
Abstract |
The most effective way to design an emergency management system matching user needs is to perform a User-Centered Design; it relies on continuous interactions with end-users in order to understand better and better how organizations are arranged during emergencies, which data are exchanged and which steps are performed by organizations to face disastrous events. In this paper we (i) illustrate the methodology used to collect the user requirements for the emergency management system developed in the European research project WORKPAD, and (ii) describe the WORKPAD high level architecture stemming from such requirements. Specifically, the methodology is applied in the context of Regional Civil Protection of Calabria (Italy) and is used as basis to provide more general user requirements for emergency management systems. |
Address |
SAPIENZA-Universit di Roma, Dipartimento di Informatica e Sistemistica, Italy; Regione Calabria, Dipartimento della Protezione Civile, Italy |
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Publisher |
Information Systems for Crisis Response and Management, ISCRAM |
Place of Publication |
Delft |
Editor |
B. Van de Walle, P. Burghardt, K. Nieuwenhuis |
Language |
English |
Summary Language |
English |
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Series Volume |
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Edition |
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ISSN |
2411-3387 |
ISBN |
9789054874171; 9789090218717 |
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Track |
DSM |
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Conference |
4th International ISCRAM Conference on Information Systems for Crisis Response and Management |
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no |
Call Number |
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Serial |
438 |
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Author |
Rafael A. Gonzalez |
Title |
Crisis response simulation combining discrete-event and agent-based modeling |
Type |
Conference Article |
Year |
2009 |
Publication |
ISCRAM 2009 – 6th International Conference on Information Systems for Crisis Response and Management: Boundary Spanning Initiatives and New Perspectives |
Abbreviated Journal |
ISCRAM 2009 |
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Issue |
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Pages |
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Keywords |
Architecture; Computational methods; Information systems; Integration testing; Multi agent systems; Agent-based model; Coordination; Crisis response; Discrete events; Environmental model; High level architecture; Simulation model; Simultaneous integration; Discrete event simulation |
Abstract |
This paper presents a crisis response simulation model architecture combining a discrete-event simulation (DES) environment for a crisis scenario with an agent-based model of the response organization. In multi-agent systems (MAS) as a computational organization, agents are modeled and implemented separately from the environmental model. We follow this perspective and submit an architecture in which the environment is modeled as a discreteevent simulation, and the crisis response agents are modeled as a multi-agent system. The simultaneous integration and separation of both models allows for independent modifications of the response organization and the scenario, resulting in a testbed that allows testing different organizations to respond to the same scenario or different emergencies for the same organization. It also provides a high-level architecture suggesting the way in which DES and MAS can be combined into a single simulation in a simple way. |
Address |
Delft University of Technology, Netherlands |
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Thesis |
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Publisher |
Information Systems for Crisis Response and Management, ISCRAM |
Place of Publication |
Gothenburg |
Editor |
J. Landgren, S. Jul |
Language |
English |
Summary Language |
English |
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Series Volume |
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ISSN |
2411-3387 |
ISBN |
9789163347153 |
Medium |
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Track |
Intelligent Systems |
Expedition |
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Conference |
6th International ISCRAM Conference on Information Systems for Crisis Response and Management |
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no |
Call Number |
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Serial |
535 |
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