Title
A Fire Management Decision Support Systems To Minimise Economic Losses: A Case Study In A Petrochemical Complex
Abstract
Fires are very expensive to fight and may result in devastating human, economic, and environmental effects. Due to limited fire management resources and budget constraints, fire management becomes increasingly challenging. The increased interdependencies among existing infrastructure systems make economic losses induced by fires very severe and difficult to predict. Despite recent advances in fire management decision support systems (FMDSSs), economic analysis capabilities have not received enough attention in these systems. Efficient FMDSS incorporates economic considerations to determine optimal fire fighting tactics and strategies. This paper proposes an FMDSS for developing optimal fire management plans. The proposed system adopts the cost-plus-net-value change (C + NVC) concept to evaluate the economic efficiency of the plans. In order to capture the net value change of goods and services due to fires, an infrastructure interdependency simulator (i2Sim) is used to incorporate the interaction among infrastructure systems. The proposed FMDSS is capable of developing long-term (strategic) plans and short-term (operational) plans. The applicability of the proposed system is demonstrated using a case study involving multiple fire incidents in a large petrochemical complex.
Year
DOI
Venue
2018
10.1504/IJCIS.2018.091933
INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF CRITICAL INFRASTRUCTURES
Keywords
Field
DocType
economic efficiency, decision support systems, fire management, critical infrastructures, interdependencies, firefighting, industrial fires, damage function, infrastructure interdependency simulator, i2Sim, cost-plus-net-value change, C+NVC, machine learning, petrochemical industry
Interdependence,Economic efficiency,Budget constraint,Environmental resource management,Goods and services,Economic analysis,Decision support system,Risk analysis (engineering),Engineering,Firefighting,The Internet
Journal
Volume
Issue
ISSN
14
2
1475-3219
Citations 
PageRank 
References 
0
0.34
0
Authors
3
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
Khaled Al-Utaibi1172.28
Abdullah Alsubaie282.34
José R. Martí3479.13