Modelling Search and Rescue systems with dynamical networks

Author

Pestov, Irene ; Pilat, Marcin

Author_Institution

Defence R&D Canada, Centre for Operational Res. & Anal., Ottawa, ON, Canada

fYear

2011

fDate

11-15 April 2011

Firstpage

31

Lastpage

38

Abstract

This paper explores the application of network technologies to modelling the Search and Rescue (SAR) capability for the Canadian Arctic. Under the proposed approach, the SAR capability is viewed as a complex socio-technical system that comprises social and technological components from different environmental domains. The system is modelled as a set of inter-linked networks with embedded heterogeneous agents. Evolutionary computation is used to optimize the architecture of the network of Northern airports - one of the networks included in the SAR model. The proposed methodology is applicable to a variety of defence systems that involve large numbers of heterogeneous components.

Keywords

emergency services; evolutionary computation; large-scale systems; multi-agent systems; network theory (graphs); Canadian Arctic; SAR capability; dynamical network; evolutionary computation; heterogeneous agent; northern airport; search and rescue system; sociotechnical system; Airports; Atmospheric modeling; Evolutionary computation; Genetic algorithms; Joints; Optimization; Sociotechnical systems;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Computational Intelligence for Security and Defense Applications (CISDA), 2011 IEEE Symposium on

Conference_Location

Paris

Print_ISBN

978-1-4244-9939-7

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/CISDA.2011.5945953

Filename

5945953