Resilience in the face of disaster: Accounting for varying disaster magnitudes, resource topologies, and (sub)population distributions in the PLAN C emergency planning tool

Giuseppe Narzisi; Joshua S. Mincer; Silas Smith; Bud Mishra

doi:10.1007/978-3-540-74481-8_41

Resilience in the face of disaster: Accounting for varying disaster magnitudes, resource topologies, and (sub)population distributions in the PLAN C emergency planning tool

Giuseppe Narzisi, Joshua S. Mincer, Silas Smith, Bud Mishra

Computer Science

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Abstract

PLAN C, an Agent-Based Model platform for urban disaster simulation and emergency planning, features a variety of reality-based agents interacting on a realistic city map and can simulate the complex dynamics of emergency responses in different urban catastrophe scenarios. Work reported here focuses on the incorporation of specific subpopulations of person agents, reflecting the existence of individuals with specific defining characteristics and needs, and their interactions with the available resources. Performance of these subpopulations are compared in both point-source attack and distributed disaster scenarios for disasters of different magnitudes. Specific "recovery points" can be derived both for total- and sub-populations, which estimate the duration of a response system's/city's vulnerability. The effect of varying topologies of available resources, i.e. different hospital maps, provides particular insight into the dynamics that can emerge in this complex system. PLAN C produces interesting emergent behavior which is often consistent with the literature on emergency medicine of previous events.

Original language	English (US)
Title of host publication	Holonic and Multi-Agent Systems for Manufacturing - 3rd International Conference on Industrial Applications of Holonic and Multi-Agent Systems, HoloMAS 2007, Proceedings
Publisher	Springer Verlag
Pages	433-446
Number of pages	14
ISBN (Print)	9783540744788
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-540-74481-8_41
State	Published - 2007
Event	3rd International Conference on Industrial Applications of Holonic and Multi-Agent Systems, HoloMAS 2007 - Regensburg, Germany Duration: Sep 3 2007 → Sep 5 2007

Publication series

Name	Lecture Notes in Computer Science (including subseries Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence and Lecture Notes in Bioinformatics)
Volume	4659 LNAI
ISSN (Print)	0302-9743
ISSN (Electronic)	1611-3349

Other

Other	3rd International Conference on Industrial Applications of Holonic and Multi-Agent Systems, HoloMAS 2007
Country/Territory	Germany
City	Regensburg
Period	9/3/07 → 9/5/07

Keywords

Agent-based modeling
Complex systems
Disaster management
PLAN C

ASJC Scopus subject areas

Theoretical Computer Science
General Computer Science

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Narzisi, G., Mincer, J. S., Smith, S., & Mishra, B. (2007). Resilience in the face of disaster: Accounting for varying disaster magnitudes, resource topologies, and (sub)population distributions in the PLAN C emergency planning tool. In Holonic and Multi-Agent Systems for Manufacturing - 3rd International Conference on Industrial Applications of Holonic and Multi-Agent Systems, HoloMAS 2007, Proceedings (pp. 433-446). (Lecture Notes in Computer Science (including subseries Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence and Lecture Notes in Bioinformatics); Vol. 4659 LNAI). Springer Verlag. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-540-74481-8_41

Resilience in the face of disaster: Accounting for varying disaster magnitudes, resource topologies, and (sub)population distributions in the PLAN C emergency planning tool. / Narzisi, Giuseppe; Mincer, Joshua S.; Smith, Silas et al.
Holonic and Multi-Agent Systems for Manufacturing - 3rd International Conference on Industrial Applications of Holonic and Multi-Agent Systems, HoloMAS 2007, Proceedings. Springer Verlag, 2007. p. 433-446 (Lecture Notes in Computer Science (including subseries Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence and Lecture Notes in Bioinformatics); Vol. 4659 LNAI).

Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Conference contribution

Narzisi, G, Mincer, JS, Smith, S & Mishra, B 2007, Resilience in the face of disaster: Accounting for varying disaster magnitudes, resource topologies, and (sub)population distributions in the PLAN C emergency planning tool. in Holonic and Multi-Agent Systems for Manufacturing - 3rd International Conference on Industrial Applications of Holonic and Multi-Agent Systems, HoloMAS 2007, Proceedings. Lecture Notes in Computer Science (including subseries Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence and Lecture Notes in Bioinformatics), vol. 4659 LNAI, Springer Verlag, pp. 433-446, 3rd International Conference on Industrial Applications of Holonic and Multi-Agent Systems, HoloMAS 2007, Regensburg, Germany, 9/3/07. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-540-74481-8_41

Narzisi G, Mincer JS, Smith S, Mishra B. Resilience in the face of disaster: Accounting for varying disaster magnitudes, resource topologies, and (sub)population distributions in the PLAN C emergency planning tool. In Holonic and Multi-Agent Systems for Manufacturing - 3rd International Conference on Industrial Applications of Holonic and Multi-Agent Systems, HoloMAS 2007, Proceedings. Springer Verlag. 2007. p. 433-446. (Lecture Notes in Computer Science (including subseries Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence and Lecture Notes in Bioinformatics)). doi: 10.1007/978-3-540-74481-8_41

Narzisi, Giuseppe ; Mincer, Joshua S. ; Smith, Silas et al. / Resilience in the face of disaster : Accounting for varying disaster magnitudes, resource topologies, and (sub)population distributions in the PLAN C emergency planning tool. Holonic and Multi-Agent Systems for Manufacturing - 3rd International Conference on Industrial Applications of Holonic and Multi-Agent Systems, HoloMAS 2007, Proceedings. Springer Verlag, 2007. pp. 433-446 (Lecture Notes in Computer Science (including subseries Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence and Lecture Notes in Bioinformatics)).

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