Analysis of Emergency Task Planning System in Multi-subject Coalitions
Enyan Wang, Xiang‐Yang Li · International Journal of Hybrid Information Technology · 2015
Emergency response is a complicated process that requires substantial knowledge, information support and multi-subject collaboration.This paper focuses on the analysis and design of a system for emergency responders in charge of task planning, coordinating and controlling the actions in crisis response.Based on system science theory, we analysed the characteristics of emergency decision-making in times of disaster and discussed the process and internal architecture of the resulting system for developing an emergency plan.We also provide a basic analysis framework for multi-layer, multisubject and multi-task emergency planning in times of disaster.We designed the structure and process of an emergency planning system.Consistent data standards are critical for such a system, and many analyses of crisis response reveal that the lack of such standards hinders efficient critical information flow among incident responders.Therefore, using a team collaborative perspective for emergency planning, we developed an emergency information and plan model for general emergency planning based on the hazard emergency domain and plan ontology concepts.This is a basic utilitarian model for the hierarchical collaborative emergency plan process.We also developed a prototype system and tested its validity for multi-subject task planning.