Model-driven disaster management

Abstract

Disaster management (DM) is a challenging domain to model because of the variety of dynamic characteristics attached to the domain. Metamodeling is a model-driven approach that describes how semantic domain models can be built into an artifact called a Metamodel. By collecting all the domain concepts and partitioning the domain problems into sub-domain-problems, a metamodel can produce a domain-specific language. This paper presents a Disaster Management Metamodel that can serve as a representational layer of DM expertise. This metamodel leads to better knowledge sharing and facilitates combining and matching different DM activities to best manage the disaster on hand.

Disaster management, crowdsourced R&D and probabilistic innovation theory: Toward real time disaster response capability

“…Such risk can be modelled using probabilistic models of estimates of probable maximum loss [7]. Although disasters are unique and require their own management process, their impact can have common features and responses which are transferable; but key to disaster response is weighing the amount of information needed versus the time available when making decisions, and a common disaster management 'language' is necessary for this [44]. Such a DM language requires metadata, which is structured and maintained, and allows semantic descriptions of content and services in support of the resilient capabilities of organisations and communities in the face of disasters [44].…”

A metamodel-based knowledge sharing system for disaster management

“…A model explicitly expresses the structure, behaviour and other properties in a domain and ideally has a causal connection to the real world (Aßmann, Zschaler et al 2006). Our approach for DM knowledge sharing can be said to be model-driven as advocated in (Othman and Beydoun 2013). It is inspired by model driven systems development (Colin, Thomas et al 2003, Stahl, Voelter et al 2005.…”

A networking solution for disaster management to address liaison failures in emergency response

“…At the State Level, State Disaster Management Authorities undertake these activities, with hierarchy extending up to the district as well as the municipalities and village levels with a coordinating body at each level. Although, the introduction and adoption of ICS in India and elsewhere have addressed the organizational issues with clarification of roles and domains of various stakeholders, yet ICS is found to be a failure in most of the post disaster assessment reports due to lack of proper coordination and communication structure [15].…”

“…Due to the complexity, uncertainty and uniqueness, disaster situations differ considerably and require custom management approaches, however the impact and influence of disasters on human life and behaviour remains similar (Othman and Beydoun [15]) thus while dealing with issues of coordination and communication a generalized system can provide an effective response without delays. e-ICS stands for Electronic Incident Command System.…”