Group information foraging in emergency response: An illustration incorporating discrete-event simulation

Document Type

Conference Proceeding

Publication Date

12-1-2006

Abstract

Large-scale emergencies require groups of response personnel to seek and handle information from an evolving range of sources in order to meet an evolving set of goals, often under conditions of high risk. Because emergencies induce time constraint, efforts spent on planning activities reduce the time available for execution activities. This paper discusses the design and implementation of a discreteevent simulation system used for assessing how risk and time constraint can impact group information seeking and handling (i.e., foraging) during emergency response. A demonstration is given of how system parameters may be tuned in order to manipulate risk, time constraint, distribution of information and resources available for response. The results of a pilot test of the implemented system are briefly discussed. Finally, ongoing extensions of this simulation are discussed. © 2006 IEEE.

Identifier

46149120602 (Scopus)

ISBN

[1424405017, 9781424405015]

Publication Title

Proceedings Winter Simulation Conference

External Full Text Location

https://doi.org/10.1109/WSC.2006.323129

ISSN

08917736

First Page

554

Last Page

561

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