Paper Info
Title
Design and implementation of an agent-based simulation for emergency response and crisis management
Abstract
This paper introduces the simulation component of the WIPER system [22]. The Wireless Integrated Phone-based Emergency Response (WIPER) system is a Dynamic Data-Driven Application System (DDDAS) that uses a stream of cellular network activity to detect, classify and predict crisis events. The WIPER simulation is essential to classification and prediction tasks, as the simulations model human activity, both in movement and cell phone activity, in an attempt to better understand crisis events. These Agent-Based simulations are parameterized with agent location data from the cellular service provider and agents inhabit a GIS space representative of the urban area. Simulations include models for normal and crisis behaviors in an urban setting. Simulations generate call activity and agent locations, similar to that generated by the observation of cell phone users in an urban setting. We present an overview of the design and implementation of the WIPER simulation along with validation and verification of the system and an evaluation of runtime characteristics.
Year
DOI
Venue
2009
10.1145/1639809.1639828
Spring Simulation Multiconference
Keywords
Field
DocType
urban setting,crisis management,agent-based simulation,crisis behavior,wiper system,emergency response,simulations model human activity,wiper simulation,cell phone activity,call activity,cellular network activity,crisis event,validation and verification,service provider,cellular network,gis,simulation model
Wireless,Verification and validation,Computer science,Simulation,Service provider,Real-time computing,Location data,Crisis management,Phone,Cellular network,Urban area
Conference
Citations 
PageRank 
References 
6
0.52
8
Authors
5
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
Timothy Schoenharl1281.95
Zhi Zhai2275.01
Ryan McCune3331.97
Alec Pawling4414.08
Greg Madey51539.65