Experiment planning and deviations

203 participants recruited from undergraduate communication courses at a public university in the upper MidwestParticipants got one of the following four sets to read/watch.participants viewed a two-minute television news package from the Associated Press (AP) regarding the 2011 shooting at Virginia Techparticipants watched the same news feature and were then asked to read a press release concerning the events surrounding the shooting;participants received the press release first, and then watched the news packageparticipants were only asked to read the press release and did not view the televised news packageparticipants were asked to fill out a brief questionnaire, which included the Event Hazard Outrage Scale

To execute the model, RoboCup Rescue agent simulation environment, which is one of the best and the most famous complex and multi-agent large-scale environments, was selected. The environment simulates the incidence of fire and earthquakes in urban areas where it is the duty of the police forces, firefighters and ambulance teams to control the crisis.“To show the model’s practicality, we first presented an agent model for fire brigades in the proposed framework of C-RPD, and then implemented it as fire brigades of Polytechnic’s SOS team. Later, an expert trained the system using his and other teams’ experiences one by one. The developed system was validated in two forms. The first was the validation of system’s various versions developed while training it with expert’s experiences. The test shows the system convergence while adding experiences. The second was the official validation of the whole SOS team in four official contests.” (p. 55)“It is possible to evaluate rescue simulation teams in two ways: (1) the descriptive approach which analyzes agents’ behavior and (2) the official approach which evaluates the performance by the team’s final score or the agents’ scores” (p. 61)

empirical testing with analyze of questionnaire survey data collected from professional emergency responders during a series of multi-agency, international disaster management exercises at the Dutch–German border

To assess the effectiveness of the computer-based, collaborativetraining (CCT), a total of four transportation security mock drillswere conducted from 2004 to 2006 with participation andcooperation from the Indiana Department of TransportationTo assess Indianas Department of Transportation  INDOT performance in meeting the six objectives of emergency operations, a checklist was developed and given to the evaluation team.