A Feasible Approach to Emergency Response Plan Digitalization and Cooperation
Xieyu Fan, F.-F. Yin · 2012
Emergency Response Plan (ERplan for short) plays an important role in carrying out emergency rescue effectively during the emergency response process. Unfortunately, the fact that ERplans are generally stored in form of text exposed some problems such as disunited standard, poor operability and so on, which affected the efficiency of emergency response, especially for cooperation of emergency response. In order to solve the deficiencies of text-based ERplan, the paper presents a feasible approach to digitalize the ERplan using workflow technology. For developing the ERplan workflow designer, the special features of ERplan are illustrated and modeling of business process of Tianjin overall ERplan with Petri Net was described in detail. Finally, the prototype of the emergency response cooperation platform based on ERplan workflow was developed to support the cooperation of inter-organizational for emergency response. The results showed that ERplan workflow provided a feasible solution for improving the performance of emergency response process.