Trial objectives

To analyze usefulness of space applications in crisis management activities carried out on the national level.

The purpose of this research was to evaluate an emergency preparedness training programme and to develop a participatory training approach for emergency response.

SimulationSuch agents may be used, for example, inelectronic commerce and for training negotiators [15,18,32]. We focus on bilateral negotiations in simulated crises characterized by time constraints, deadlines, full information, and the possibility of opting out. Pg 1Hypothesis:Our hypothesis was that the agent would do at least as well as the human players in the negotiations. Pg 13

To explore Iranian Registered Nurses’ experiences in disaster relief in the Bam earthquake, Iran in 2003.In Bam Earthquake in Iran, the initial priorities in this event were to minimize avoidable further mortality and morbidity and provide acceptable health care for all people affected by this event. One of the most important requirements was to organize a disaster caring team, and to provide minimum care, which would prevent unwanted complications. This paper discusses the experiences of a group of nurses who were responsible for caring for people affected by earthquake in Bam during the early days following this natural disaster.

A case study of humanitarian disaster management is used to demonstrate the unique abilities of the CDA and Google Earth to support situation awareness. The paper provides some of the first empirical evidence on the utility of the virtual globes to support situation awareness for disaster management using implicit geographic information.

To evaluate the Swedish medical systems response to a mass casualty burn incident in a rural area with a focus on national coordination of burn care

Two field tests have been carried out by SAR professionals to evaluate the proposed methods of the I-LOV project. The first field test focused on the benefits of FRIEDAA during the response to large scale incidents. Especially, communication performance was assessed based on the number of messages Nmes. The second field test allowed to evaluate the new search technologies. In order to facilitate objective comparisons, both experiments were carried out within two runs, on the one hand with assistive tools of the I-LOV project, and on the other hand without.The second field test took place in a completely destroyed area of 0.58 ha with ten rubble piles at the school of the THW in Hoya, Germany. Three victim performers were hidden in a sewer system under the rubble piles. Furthermore, a worn piece of cloth was placed within one rubble pile, in order to check whether the dogs would neglect correctly this false target. As in the first field test, two runs were performed, but FRIEDAA assisted in both of the cases.

This paper describes an agent-based egress simulation tool, SAFEgress, which is designed to incorporate human and social behaviors during evacuations. The unique feature of SAFEgress is its flexibility to model different individual, group, and crowd behavior.

capture the decision-making process of emergency managers during severe weather events

This paper presents a novel approach that includes an interaction organization pattern for Multi-agent Systems (MASs) in crisis management, abstracted from several existing case studies in which the agents follow a sequence of interactions and the organization must optimize the use of human resources..