An integrated decision support system for emergency evacuation management

Abstract

Evacuation management related problems involves multidisciplinary response tasks. Integrate decision support demands for intelligent management, collaboration and visualization of multiple model and data resources in distributed and heterogeneous environment. In this paper, a service-oriented distributed architecture is developed for integrated decision support in emergency evacuation management. The suggested architecture takes advantages of the combination of SOA environment and ontology-based resource management approach. It focuses not only on interoperability of disperse resource, but also integrated decision support capability by means of integrated resource management, modeling support, integrated simulation and collective results analysis. The main advantage of the proposed architecture is that multi-dimensional evacuation management operation decisions are jointly handled in an integrated manner. A case study of implementation of the architecture demonstrated the feasibility of integrated decision support, which enables analyzing collective results and even revealing sine implicit information.