Title :
Decision support system for resource allocation in disaster management
Author :
Kondaveti, Russell ; Ganz, Aura
Author_Institution :
Univ. of Massachusetts, Amherst, MA, USA
Abstract :
Natural and man-made disasters, such as earthquakes, floods, plane crashes, high-rise building collapses, major nuclear facility malfunctions, pose an ever-present challenge to public emergency services. Disasters may result in a large volume of responders arriving on-scene to provide assistance to victims. Coordination of responding resources is a major problem in disasters. In this paper we introduce a decision support framework built on rapid information collection and resource tracking functionalities. Based on this information collected from emergency response service agencies, operation research techniques are used to find an optimal solution for resource deployment and dispatching.
Keywords :
decision support systems; disasters; earthquakes; operations research; resource allocation; decision support system; disaster management; earthquakes; emergency response service agencies; floods; high-rise building collapses; major nuclear facility malfunctions; man-made disasters; natural disasters; operation research; plane crashes; public emergency services; rapid information collection; resource allocation; resource coordination; resource deployment; resource dispatching; resource tracking; Algorithms; Cluster Analysis; Decision Support Systems, Clinical; Decision Support Techniques; Disaster Planning; Disasters; Emergency Medical Services; Humans; Medical Informatics; Models, Statistical; Models, Theoretical; Relief Work; Resource Allocation; Risk; Software;
Conference_Titel :
Engineering in Medicine and Biology Society, 2009. EMBC 2009. Annual International Conference of the IEEE
Conference_Location :
Minneapolis, MN
Print_ISBN :
978-1-4244-3296-7
Electronic_ISBN :
1557-170X
DOI :
10.1109/IEMBS.2009.5332498
