Research questions

Show how current web social media, technologies and services, together with the presence of a huge amount of georeferenced materials over the web, can be easily and successfully exploited to create new geo-collaboration tools enabling back-channel communications during disaster situations.

Explore the use of scenario-based design as an approach to engage public health practitioners in the creation and validation of an information design to support routine and emergency work activities

Try model the system of container multimodal transport emergency relief based on immune-inspired models.

Three virtual world studies for team training and assessment in acute-care medicine are presented:Training emergency department (ED) teamsPrehospital and in-hospital disaster preparedness trainingTraining ED and hospital staff to manage mass casualties

Describe the development, implementation, and evaluation of an obstetric simulation-based team training course grounded in crisis resource management (CRM) principles.

 Is the R&E approach, supported by proper multimedia technology, applicable to largescale operational contexts and what are its benefits, drawbacks, limitations, and needs for modification to suit these contexts?Main question: How can rich reconstructions based on large-operation factual data, and visualized by multimedia tools, complement, improve, or even replace the use of traditional quantitative or qualitative research methods when evaluating large-scale distributed operations?

Objective:In order to discuss features needed for homeland security modeling, a review of behavioral model paradigms and their application in travel and wayfinding along with the review of 53 activity-based models have been conducted. Twoexamples of homeland security studies are included to highlight these needs.

GoalThis consensus paper: 1) proposes a scientifically based methodology for SBT design and evaluation, 2) reviews existing team performance metrics in health care along with recommendations, and 3) focuses on leadership as a target for SBT team training, because it has a high likelihood to improve many team processes and ultimately performance.

Goal:In this paper, we describe the process of developing and evaluating a Domain Ontology for Mass Gatherings (DO4MG) with a focus on medical emergency management. As part of the evaluation, we illustrate the application ofDO4MG for implementing a case-based reasoning decision support for emergency medical management in mass gatherings.

Successfully avoid an uncontrolled development of the events in the process towards a blackout, restricting the development of the events to the “controlled zone” by triggering measures contained in emergency plans or other decisions with regard to networks.