Exploring Cloud-Based Distributed Disaster Management With Dynamic Multi-Agents Workflow System

2018 ◽  
pp. 167-195
Author(s):  
Mansura Habiba ◽  
Shamim Akhter
Keyword(s):  
Disaster Management ◽  
System Architecture ◽  
Dropout Rate ◽  
Adaptive Scheduling ◽  
Workflow Model ◽  
Workflow System ◽  
Disaster Situation ◽  
Multi Agent ◽  
Distributed Cloud ◽  
Dynamically Configurable

Natural disaster is one of the important topics in current researches. Disaster Management System (DMS) is a complex system and needs to perform a collection of tasks collaboratively along with the potentiality to change the configurations of the system dynamically. In the research era of workflow model, existing models mainly deal with temporal and static constrains. However they cannot be used to keep pace with an uncertainly dynamic system like disaster management. Considering all these significant DMS attributes we have designed a new dynamically configurable and changeable workflow model with the support of adaptive scheduling, for both successful and failed situations, and implemented in a distributed cloud system to maintain the rescue and reorganization activities of disaster situation. In order to simplify the system architecture, we have used Multi Agent System (MAS) for our design. The proposed system achieves a comparatively higher rate of successful job completion-higher rescheduling success rate and comparatively lower dropout rate.

Exploring Cloud-Based Distributed Disaster Management With Dynamic Multi-Agents Workflow System

2019 ◽  
pp. 165-194
Author(s):  
Mansura Habiba ◽  
Shamim Akhter
Keyword(s):  
Disaster Management ◽  
System Architecture ◽  
Dropout Rate ◽  
Adaptive Scheduling ◽  
Workflow Model ◽  
Workflow System ◽  
Disaster Situation ◽  
Multi Agent ◽  
Distributed Cloud ◽  
Dynamically Configurable

Natural disaster is one of the important topics in current researches. Disaster Management System (DMS) is a complex system and needs to perform a collection of tasks collaboratively along with the potentiality to change the configurations of the system dynamically. In the research era of workflow model, existing models mainly deal with temporal and static constrains. However they cannot be used to keep pace with an uncertainly dynamic system like disaster management. Considering all these significant DMS attributes we have designed a new dynamically configurable and changeable workflow model with the support of adaptive scheduling, for both successful and failed situations, and implemented in a distributed cloud system to maintain the rescue and reorganization activities of disaster situation. In order to simplify the system architecture, we have used Multi Agent System (MAS) for our design. The proposed system achieves a comparatively higher rate of successful job completion-higher rescheduling success rate and comparatively lower dropout rate.

scholarly journals Analysis of Evacuation Time for Vulnerable Individuals During Inundation of Lowland Areas

2021 ◽  
Vol 16 (5) ◽  
pp. 866-873
Author(s):  
Chang Yeon Bae ◽  
◽  
Kenichiro Kobayashi
Keyword(s):  
Simulation Model ◽  
Disaster Management ◽  
Evacuation Time ◽  
Geographic Factors ◽  
Evacuation Plans ◽  
Vulnerable People ◽  
Agent Simulation ◽  
Disaster Situation ◽  
Multi Agent ◽  
Increasing Demand

There is an increasing demand for establishing pre-emptive measures for disaster management. However, there is a lack of support systems available for vulnerable individuals living in disaster-prone regions in Korea. This study constructs a multi-agent simulation model to analyze the evacuation time for Dongnae district and Yeonje district in Busan, Korea. In disaster-prone regions, vulnerable people experience difficulties, such as, obtaining updated information about the disaster situation, and this reduces their evacuation speed. Additionally, there is a possibility that the evacuation speed, while evacuating vulnerable people, may decrease due to environmental and geographic factors, including the slope and elevation of the areas. Therefore, this section of the society requires special attention and policies that are different from those made for people who may not face such calamities and are physically abled. An analysis based on factors such as road slopes and delays in evacuation due to flooding, was conducted to formulate realistic evacuation plans for people who are vulnerable. The location of shelters in the case of flooding in Dongnae and Yeonje district, have been better identified. Furthermore, it was confirmed that the evacuation time could be reduced if wide-area evacuation is implemented. This study provides a base for developing suitable shelters and evacuation plans for disaster-prone regions.

scholarly journals A Mobile and Web Application for Mapping Disaster Volunteers’ Position in Indonesia

2017 ◽  
Vol 11 (3) ◽  
pp. 98 ◽  
Author(s):  
Theresia Devi Indriasari ◽  
Kusworo Anindito ◽  
Eddy Julianto ◽  
Bertha Laroha Paraya Pangaribuan
Keyword(s):  
Disaster Management ◽  
Web Application ◽  
Web Applications ◽  
Management Service ◽  
Tectonic Plates ◽  
Location Data ◽  
Before And After ◽  
Disaster Situation ◽  
The Government ◽  
To Receive

<span>Indonesia is a country located on top of some tectonic plates that bring potential natural disasters. Disaster management system is considered essential in controlling the situation in the site both before and after the disaster takes place. In disaster situation, the government and society are involved in a volunteer team in order to help minimize victims and support survivors. However, the volunteering activities are often hindered since there are problems in the disaster site. One of the problems is late responses due to poor coordination among volunteers that drives the delay in disaster relief. Therefore, it is necessary to have an application that maps the positions of volunteers in a disaster site, so that the disaster management coordinator can disseminate volunteers to disaster areas based on needs. The purpose of the study is to propose an application called ‘MyMapVolunteers’ that effectively and efficiently detects the position of the volunteers in order to improve disaster management service. In this case, real time and location based service technology will able to detect the position of each volunteer. ‘MyMapVolunteers’ is composed of two platforms, which are mobile and web applications. Mobile platform is an application that uses GPS function provided by the smartphone to find the volunteers’ location coordinates and then send the data of the location automatically and manually. The web platform is used to receive volunteers’ location data and to present them in google map, therefore disaster management coordinator can monitor the positions of and search for volunteers faster.</span>

Geo-Information Support in Management of Urban Disasters

2006 ◽  
Vol 31 (1) ◽  
pp. 62-69
Author(s):  
Sisi Zlatanova ◽  
Peter van Oosterom ◽  
Edward Verbree
Keyword(s):  
Disaster Management ◽  
Simulation Models ◽  
Recovery Phase ◽  
Decision Makers ◽  
Information Support ◽  
Technical Equipment ◽  
Fire Departments ◽  
Urban Disaster ◽  
Disaster Situation ◽  
Actual Response

Within the management of urban disasters, geo-information systems (GIS) are used in any of the phases of mitigation, preparedness, response and recovery as most of the required data have a spatial component. Examples of GIS-based decision support systems on mitigation are found in simulation models of floods and earthquakes. In the preparation phase all kinds of spatial observations and models can be used to predict which areas will be threatened. To prepare for adequately responding in case of an actual disaster, these systems are capable of developing realistic scenarios that are used within training and virtual reality (VR) systems. During the actual response phase geo-information is used intensively: for getting an impression of the environment, for routing, for obtaining up-to-date information about the actual situation, etc. In the recovery phase, there is often a high public and political interest to judge the situation - comparing the pre- and post-disaster situation - and to set priorities for the rebuilding. Despite this potential of GIS-based support for urban disaster management, the use of these systems or even the utilisation of geo-information itself is still very limited in countries in Africa, Asia and Latin America. The emergency management is usually done with paper maps that are seldom up-to-date. Useful systems to support decision makers in any of the phases of disaster management are nearly completely lacking. To improve the work of decision makers and rescue teams, different premises have to be archived in relation to: meta-information to provide insight on the availability and usefulness of the geo-information itself, the technical equipment of the rescue teams (i.e. communication devices and field computers), and the up-to-date information from the affected areas (images, observations, reports). This paper suggests a framework for “urban and urgent” disaster management to facilitate the work of police forces, fire departments, ambulances and government coordinators in disaster situations by extending and improving the utilisation of geo-information. Within a pre-disaster situation, geo-information support management further can assist planning for prevention and mitigation.

AGENT-BASED SYSTEM ARCHITECTURE FOR DYNAMIC AND OPEN ENVIRONMENTS

2003 ◽  
Vol 02 (01) ◽  
pp. 105-133 ◽  
Author(s):  
ELHADI SHAKSHUKI ◽  
HAMADA GHENNIWA ◽  
MAHAMED KAMEL
Keyword(s):  
System Architecture ◽  
Rapid Growth ◽  
Dynamic Environment ◽  
Information Gathering ◽  
Information Resources ◽  
Architecture Design ◽  
Agent Based ◽  
Interface Agents ◽  
Multi Agent ◽  
Computing Environments

The rapid growth of the network-centered (Internet and Intranet) computing environments requires new architectures for information gathering systems. Typically, in these environments, the information resources are dynamic, heterogeneous and distributed. In addition, these computing environments are open, where information resources may be connected or disconnected at any time. This paper presents an architecture for a multi-agent information gathering system. The architecture includes three types of agents: interface, broker and resource agents. The interface agents interact with the users to fulfill their interests and preferences. The resource agents access and capture the content of the information resources. The broker agents facilitate cooperation among the information and the resource agents to achieve their desired goals. This paper provides the agents' architecture, design and implementations that enable them to cooperate, coordinate and communicate with each other to gather information in an open and dynamic environment.

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