Results

Metrics and classification rules allow to identify several typologies of undesirable communication categories in MAS: overloader, overloaded and isolated agents.Engineers can improve the performance of the MAS by improving the communication design, being guided by the presented metrics.

A plant model and a controller model for a Networked Safe Service System in the case of disaster response management have been successfully defined, which paved a way towards the application of a rich set of the control systems technology to disaster response management.A simulation-operation hybrid adaptive response management approach has been proposed to operate the whole system.

During the study period, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention conducted 24 domestic in-person CASPER trainings for over 1000 staff in 38 states of the US. On average, there was a marked increase in knowledge of CASPER. 99 CASPERs were conducted in the US, 53.5% of which assessed preparedness; the others were categorized as response or recovery (27.2%) or were unrelated to a disaster (19.2%)

The simulation system shows promising results to support emergency managers in designing and evaluating more realistic traffic evacuation plans with mutli-level agent’s decision models that reflect different levels of individual variability of handling stress situations.When multiple models and behavior patterns were turned off, the results are comparable to those of the MATSimThe results also show that using the additional route choice model, i.e., potential network model, reduces the agent’s travel time from that of the shortest path modelThe results also showed a significant impact of the nervousness value on the clearance time. When evacuees are extremely panicked, the clearance time increased rapidly.The experimental results show that it is beneficial to integrate more variability of driving behaviors to a model frameworkThe results also hos that while the buildings of more shelters may increase overall evacuation rates. It may diminish efficient utilization of sheltersThe approach would provide emergency officials with a clearer view, enabling them to visualize outcomes of the possible alternative evacuation plans under various possible scenarios, and to more accurately predict and plan clearance time so that they can choose the optimal plan.

The tests of the instrument revealed much interest in its use, and it was seen as a potential tool for the improvement by public organizations of their crisis communication. The tests led to improvements in the structure as well as in the phrasing of the individual performance indicators and their explanation. The indicators were considered relevant and important but too many in number.Therefore, a possibility to use the instrument in three separate parts, relating respectively to the period before, during and after a crisis, should be offered.

The findings suggest that using Twitter substantially mitigates participants’ negative evaluation of the organization undergoing a crisis.

The primary research question addressed in this study – the extent of scientific studies in challenges to civil–military coordination – was answered by identifying specific challenges in civil–military coordination through a systematic literature review and categorizing these challenges under major themes.National backgrounds, attitudes and perceptions of the professionals towards the other organization were found to be key factors influencing civil–military coordination. This indicates that comparisons between the perceptions of professionals from both civil and military teams with different nationalities and different political histories should be carried out in future research.

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In the severely damaged group, handling residents’ com-plaints increased the risk of mental health distress, althoughengagement in disaster-related work decreased the risk. In theless damaged group, working >100 h overtime per monthincreased the risk. In both groups, poor workplace communi-cation increased the risk.The effects ofproperty damage or loss of family members due to the earth-quake or a subsequent change in living environment or life-style seemed to detrimentally affect their health.To evaluate the participants’ mental health,

The findings indicate the key role of crisis origin in affecting publics’ preferred information form (social media, traditional media, or word-ofmouth communication) and source (organization in crisis or third party), which influences how publics anticipate an organization should respond to a crisis and what crisis emotions they are likely to feel when exposed to crisis information.