Title :
Emergency decision support using an agent-based modeling approach
Author :
Wagner, Neal ; Agrawal, Vikas
Author_Institution :
Dept. of Manage., Fayetteville State Univ., Fayetteville, NC, USA
Abstract :
A key activity in emergency management is preparation for natural and man-made disasters. This paper presents a prototype of a computer simulation system that uses agent-based modeling to simulate an emergency environment with crowd evacuation and provides for testing of multiple disaster scenarios at virtually no cost.
Keywords :
decision support systems; disasters; emergency services; multi-agent systems; agent-based modeling approach; computer simulation system; crowd evacuation; emergency decision support; emergency environment; emergency management; man-made disaster preparation; multiple disaster scenarios; natural disaster preparation; Computational modeling; Educational institutions; Fires; Prototypes; Testing; USA Councils; Weapons; Agent-based System; Emergency Management;
Conference_Titel :
Intelligence and Security Informatics (ISI), 2012 IEEE International Conference on
Conference_Location :
Arlington, VA
Print_ISBN :
978-1-4673-2105-1
DOI :
10.1109/ISI.2012.6284298
