FireGrid: An e-infrastructure for next-generation emergency response support

Journal of Parallel and Distributed Computing

Volumn 70, Issue 11, 2010, Pages 1128-1141

  Han, Liangxiu ^a   Potter, Stephen ^a   Beckett, George ^a   Pringle, Gavin ^a   Welch, Stephen ^a   Koo, Sung Han ^a   Wickler, Gerhard ^a   Usmani, Asif ^a   Torero, Jos L ^a   Tate, Austin ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF EDINBURGH   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Emergency response; Fire simulation model; Grid; High performance computing; Knowledge based reasoning; Multi agent system

Indexed keywords

EMERGENCY RESPONSE; FIRE SIMULATION MODEL; GRID; HIGH PERFORMANCE COMPUTING; KNOWLEDGE-BASED REASONING;

DECISION SUPPORT SYSTEMS; FIRES; HUMAN FORM MODELS; KNOWLEDGE BASED SYSTEMS; MULTI AGENT SYSTEMS;

COMPUTER SIMULATION;

EID: 77956230508     PISSN: 07437315     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jpdc.2010.06.005     Document Type: Article

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