Emergency Management and Decision Support Systems

Usability and decision support systems in emergency management.

The actors in charge of an emergency response are confronted with severe difficulties in coordination and decision making, especially in major accidents. To facilitate coordination, various decision support systems (DSS) integrated in communication systems have been developed. However, many DSS in the rescue service organizations are afflicted with under-use and other usability problems. Drawin...

Routing Strategies for Emergency Management Decision Support Systems During Evacuation

Routing Strategies for Emergency Management Decision Support Systems During Evacuation Joseph Yu a e , Anurag Pande a , N. Nezamuddin b f , Vinayak Dixit c & Frances Edwards d a Department of Civil & Environmental Engineering , California Polytechnic State University , San Luis Obispo , California , USA b Center for Transportation Research , University of Texas–Austin , Austin , Texas , USA c S...

Reliability of decision-support systems for nuclear emergency management

Decision Support for Campus Emergency Response Management

The history of university, college, and high school campuses is eventful with man-made tragedies ensuing a tremendous loss of life and property. Virginia Tech's April 16 tragedy ignited the discussion about balancing openness and safety in open campus environments. Decision makers in educational institutions face the challenge of ensuring that their campuses provide an open learning environment...

Knowledge Management and Environmental Decision Support Systems

Artificial Intelligence (AI) researches have begun to use AI techniques and methodologies for developing Knowledge Management Systems (KMS) for different domains and technologies. Expert systems are considered one of the well know techniques for knowledge management and can be aid in solving problems in specific domain. Case-based reasoning has been successfully used for managing knowledge of i...