Actantial Narrative Schema in Emergency Response Process Modeling for Aircraft Fires

Abstract

Analyzing the emergency response process and time characteristics after aircraft fires is extremely important for airport safety. Due to nonprocess-related elements, the Petri net model of the emergency process is generally complex and difficult to revise and expand. In this study, the actantial model was used to analyze the semantic structure of emergency actions in the Petri net emergency process model, and the actantial-timed Petri net (A-TPN) hybrid model was proposed for problem solving. The emergency response process of aircraft fires was analyzed as a case study to explain the application steps of the A-TPN hybrid model. First, the types of elements should be divided into process-related elements and nonprocess-related elements. Process-related elements include status elements and narrative elements, which are equivalent to the places and transitions in the Petri net model. Second, the workflow constructed by the status and narrative elements is converted into a Petri net. An actantial model is used to analyze the semantic structure of emergency response action narratives. Third, according to the analysis of the actants of the helper and the opponent, emergency action time characteristics are considered to construct the A-TPN hybrid model and analyze the time performance of the emergency response process. In this way, an emergency response plan can be analyzed and promoted for smart development.

A Petri-net approach for firefighting force allocation analysis of fire emergency response with backups

“…Hybrid Petri-net (HPN) extends the basic Petri-net to model continuous and discrete behaviors of a system [37]. Various types of Petri-nets have been used in process industries [38][39][40][41][42], also in the framework of emergency response planning [14,15], [43][44][45][46][47].…”