Paper Info
Title
Modeling an emergency operations center with agents
Abstract
The Georgia Emergency Management Agency (GEMA) operates the State Operations Center, which is the centralized hub for all communications regarding state operations, with respect to emergency response. The Center provides three primary functions: Request for Information, Request for Assistance, and Media Relations. The Center has responsibility for the entire process of servicing an emergency, from instigation to communication to execution to ending service for the emergency. To accomplish this, the Center is set up like a production facility, which follows a well-defined process articulated in a plan. In this project, we worked with GEMA to develop a simulation of the Center. The simulation, called GEMASim, models the information flow among people working within the Center, as well as the flow of information coming into and leaving the Center. Data is presented on the initial experiments with GEMASim using two different scenarios.
Year
DOI
Venue
2005
10.1109/WSC.2005.1574337
Winter Simulation Conference
Keywords
Field
DocType
state operations center,georgia emergency management agency,emergency operations center,centralized hub,information flow,different scenario,media relations,entire process,emergency response,initial experiment,well-defined process,emergency management
Media relations,Information flow (information theory),Data center services,Emergency operations center,Computer science,Simulation,Emergency management,Request for information
Conference
ISBN
Citations 
PageRank 
0-7803-9519-0
1
0.35
References 
Authors
0
2
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
Margaret L. Loper1386.21
Bart Presnell210.35