<p><p>This book aims to help students, researchers and policy makers understand the latest research and development trends in the application of WebGIS for Disaster Management and Emergency Response. It is designed as a useful tool to better assess the mechanisms for planning, response and mitigatio
Decision Aid Models for Disaster Management and Emergencies
โ Scribed by Alfonso J. Pedraza-Martinez (auth.), Begoรฑa Vitoriano, Javier Montero, Da Ruan (eds.)
- Publisher
- Atlantis Press
- Year
- 2013
- Tongue
- English
- Leaves
- 332
- Series
- Atlantis Computational Intelligence Systems 7
- Edition
- 1
- Category
- Library
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โฆ Synopsis
Disaster management is a process or strategy that is implemented when any type of catastrophic event takes place. The process may be initiated when anything threatens to disrupt normal operations or puts the lives of human beings at risk. Governments on all levels as well as many businesses create some sort of disaster plan that make it possible to overcome the catastrophe and return to normal function as quickly as possible. Response to natural disasters (e.g., floods, earthquakes) or technological disaster (e.g., nuclear, chemical) is an extreme complex process that involves severe time pressure, various uncertainties, high non-linearity and many stakeholders. Disaster management often requires several autonomous agencies to collaboratively mitigate, prepare, respond, and recover from heterogeneous and dynamic sets of hazards to society. Almost all disasters involve high degrees of novelty to deal with most unexpected various uncertainties and dynamic time pressures. Existing studies and approaches within disaster management have mainly been focused on some specific type of disasters with certain agency oriented. There is a lack of a general framework to deal with similarities and synergies among different disasters by taking their specific features into account. This book provides with various decisions analysis theories and support tools in complex systems in general and in disaster management in particular. The book is also generated during a long-term preparation of a European project proposal among most leading experts in the areas related to the book title. Chapters are evaluated based on quality and originality in theory and methodology, application oriented, relevance to the title of the book.
โฆ Table of Contents
Front Matter....Pages i-xv
On the Use of Information in Humanitarian Operations....Pages 1-15
Decision Aid Models and Systems for Humanitarian Logistics. A Survey....Pages 17-44
Uncertainty in Humanitarian Logistics for Disaster Management. A Review....Pages 45-74
Fuzzy Inference Systems for Disaster Response....Pages 75-94
Security Based Operation in Container Line Supply Chain: a Literature Review....Pages 95-115
A Linguistic-Valued Information Processing Method for Fuzzy Risk Analysis....Pages 117-143
A Belief Rule-Based Generic Risk Assessment Framework....Pages 145-169
Fuzzy Semantics in Closed Domain Question Answering....Pages 171-188
Decision Making with Extensions of Fuzzy Sets: An Application to Disaster Management....Pages 189-207
Classification of Disasters and Emergencies under Bipolar Knowledge Representation....Pages 209-232
A Network Transshipment Model for Planning Humanitarian Relief Operations After a Natural Disaster....Pages 233-257
A Travel Behaviour Study Through Learning and Clustering of Fuzzy Cognitive Maps....Pages 259-293
Fire and Explosion Safety Assessment in Container Line Supply Chain....Pages 295-306
A Human Situation Awareness Support System to Avoid Technological Disasters....Pages 307-325
โฆ Subjects
Simulation and Modeling; Computer Applications; Operation Research/Decision Theory; Economics/Management Science, general
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