Paper Info
Title
Publish/Subscribe System Based on Event Calculus to Support Real-Time Multi-Agent Evacuation Simulation.
Abstract
Large scale disasters often create the need for evacuating affected regions to save lives. Disaster management authorities need evacuation simulation tools to assess the efficiency of various evacuation scenarios and the impact of a variety of environmental and social factors on the evacuation process. Therefore, sound simulation models should include the relevant factors influencing the evacuation process. More specifically, to be reliable in critical situations, evacuation simulations must integrate information on time-varying phenomena that can affect the evacuation process, such as the impact of meteorological conditions, road incidents, or other relevant events. Sensor networks constitute an efficient solution for gathering data on such events and feeding the evacuation simulation. However, the coupling of sensors with multi-agent simulation tools is not straightforward. In this chapter, we present a publish/subscribe system based on Event Calculus to support real-time multi-agent evacuation simulations. The system identifies relevant events from sensor data gathered through a Sensor Event Service that implements the OGC SWE standards and the Event Pattern Markup Language (EML). Then, the publish/subscribe system acts as a middleware between the Sensor data publishers and the multi-agent evacuation simulation through a Sensor Processing Service based on Event Calculus that infers the impact of events on the characteristics of the road network. The result is an evacuation simulation that can be deployed to assess various evacuation scenarios in real-time, during the crisis response.
Year
DOI
Venue
2013
10.1007/978-3-319-00615-4_19
Lecture Notes in Geoinformation and Cartography
Field
DocType
ISSN
Middleware,Event calculus,Traffic flow,Computer science,Emergency management,Complex event processing,Simulation modeling,Wireless sensor network,Markup language,Distributed computing
Conference
1863-2246
Citations 
PageRank 
References 
0
0.34
10
Authors
3
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
Mohamed Bakillah116111.55
Alexander Zipf226924.52
Steve H. L. Liang324423.13