Representation of facility contents and threats for supporting identification of vulnerabilities in building emergencies

Proceedings of the 2009 ASCE International Workshop on Computing in Civil Engineering

Volumn 346, Issue , 2009, Pages 582-592

  Leite, Fernanda ^a   Akinci, Burcu ^a   Garrett, James ^a   Akin, Omer ^b  

^a CARNEGIE MELLON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b CARNEGIE MELLON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BUILDING SYSTEMS; CLASSIFICATION TECHNIQUE; FACETED CLASSIFICATION; FIRST RESPONDERS; IN-BUILDINGS; INFORMATION OVERLOADS; POWER OUTAGE; REPRESENTATION SCHEMA; SEARCH SPACES; TIME SPENT;

COMPUTER SCIENCE; LOCATION; OUTAGES; RESEARCH;

FACILITIES;

EID: 70350173351     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1061/41052(346)58     Document Type: Conference Paper

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