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Duygu Pamukcu; Christopher W. Zobel; Andrew Arnette | ||||
| Title | Characterizing Social Community Structures in Emergency Shelter Planning | Type | Conference Article | ||
| Year | 2020 | Publication | ISCRAM 2020 Conference Proceedings – 17th International Conference on Information Systems for Crisis Response and Management | Abbreviated Journal | Iscram 2020 |
| Volume | Issue | Pages | 228-236 | ||
| Keywords | Evacuation Planning; Sheltering; Simulation; Social Network; Group Behavior | ||||
| Abstract | During emergencies, it is often necessary to evacuate vulnerable people to safer places to reduce loss of lives and cope with human suffering. Shelters are publically available places to evacuate, especially for people who do not have any other choices. This paper overviews emergency shelter planning in disaster mitigation and preparation and discusses the need for better responding to people who need to evacuate during emergencies. Recent evacuation studies pay attention to integrating social factors into evacuation modeling for better prediction of evacuation decisions. Our goal is to address the impact of social behavior on the sheltering choices of evacuees and to explore the potential contributions of including social network characteristics in the decision-making process of authorities. We present the shelter utilization problem in South Carolina during Hurricane Florence and discuss an agent-based modeling approach that considers social community structures in modeling the shelter choice behavior of socially connected individuals. | ||||
| Address | Virginia Tech; Virginia Tech; University of Wyoming | ||||
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| Publisher | Virginia Tech | Place of Publication | Blacksburg, VA (USA) | Editor | Amanda Hughes; Fiona McNeill; Christopher W. Zobel |
| Language | English | Summary Language | English | Original Title | |
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| ISSN | 978-1-949373-27-22 | ISBN | 2411-3408 | Medium | |
| Track | Analytical Modeling and Simulation | Expedition | Conference | 17th International Conference on Information Systems for Crisis Response and Management | |
| Notes | duygu@vt.edu | Approved | no | ||
| Call Number | Serial | 2223 | |||
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