Disaster Management Evaluation and Recommendation

Abstract

It is clear that information technology plays an important role in facilitating disaster management and in allowing planners for a more efficient disaster handling. Today distributed architectures have been proposed in the area of environmental engineering which presents several advantages compared to the centralized frameworks. However, the current systems lack of methods that allow experts to dynamically construct, retrieve and exchange disaster management plans, stimulate orchestration between several simulation models according to the workflow (plan) constraints and recommends the most appropriate management plans according to the past experiences. This gap is addressed in this paper by proposing a novel architectural design framework, using the design principles of the Service Oriented Architecture (SOA) that allows interoperably description and construction of disaster management plans, easy service orchestration and execution as well as dynamic decision making and disaster management plan ranking. All this issues are evaluated in the use case of fire expansion framework.