A Simulation Study for Emergency/Disaster Management by Applying Complex Networks Theory



Título del documento: A Simulation Study for Emergency/Disaster Management by Applying Complex Networks Theory
Revista: Journal of applied research and technology
Base de datos: PERIÓDICA
Número de sistema: 000384301
ISSN: 1665-6423
Autores: 1
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Instituciones: 1Earthquake Administration of Guangdong Province, Key Laboratory of Earthquake Monitoring and Disaster Mitigation Technology, Guangzhou, Guangdong. China
2North China University of Water Resources and Electric Power, School of Electrical Engineering, Zhengzhou, Henan. China
3Southwest Jiaotong University, School of Economics and Management, Chengdu, Sichuan. China
4University of Science and Technology of China, Department of Information Systems, Suzhou. China
Año:
Periodo: Abr
Volumen: 12
Número: 2
Paginación: 223-229
País: México
Idioma: Inglés
Tipo de documento: Conferencia o discurso
Enfoque: Experimental
Resumen en inglés Earthquakes, hurricanes, flooding and terrorist attacks pose a severe threat to our society. What's more, when such a disaster happens, it can spread in a wide range with ubiquitous presence of a large-scale networked system. Therefore, the emergency/disaster management faces new challenges that the decision-makers have extra difficulties in perceiving the disaster dynamic spreading processes under this networked environment. This study tries to use the complex networks theory to tackle this complexity and the result shows the theory is a promising approach to support disaster/emergency management by focusing on simulation experiments of small world networks and scale free networks. The theory can be used to capture and describe the evolution mechanism, evolution discipline and overall behavior of a networked system. In particular, the complex networks theory is very strong at analyzing the complexity and dynamical changes of a networked system, which can improve the situation awareness after a disaster has occurred and help perceive its dynamic process, which is very important for high-quality decision making. In addition, this study also shows the use of the complex networks theory can build a visualized process to track the dynamic spreading of a disaster in a networked system
Disciplinas: Ingeniería,
Administración y contaduría
Palabras clave: Ingeniería civil,
Administración pública,
Salud pública,
Desastres naturales,
Modelos de simulación
Keyword: Engineering,
Management and accounting,
Civil engineering,
Public administration,
Public management,
Public health,
Natural disasters,
Simulation models
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