Weighing decisions: Aiding emergency response decision making via option awareness

2010 IEEE International Conference on Technologies for Homeland Security, HST 2010

Volumn , Issue , 2010, Pages 251-257

  Pfaff, Mark S ^a   Drury, Jill L ^b   Klein, Gary L ^b   More, Loretta ^c   Moon, Sung Pil ^a   Liu, Yikun ^a  

^a INDIANA UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b MITRE CORPORATION   (United States)

^c PENNSYLVANIA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Decision support; Information visualization; Modeling and simulation; Option awareness

Indexed keywords

DECISION SUPPORT TOOLS; DECISION SUPPORTS; EMERGENCY RESPONSE; EMERGENCY SCENARIO; INFORMATION VISUALIZATION; MODEL-BASED; MODELING AND SIMULATION; NEW APPROACHES; OPTION AWARENESS; SPACE VISUALIZATION; TASK ENVIRONMENT; TIME PRESSURES;

COMPUTER SIMULATION; DECISION MAKING; INFORMATION ANALYSIS; INFORMATION SYSTEMS; SECURITY SYSTEMS; VISUALIZATION;

DECISION SUPPORT SYSTEMS;

EID: 78651515636     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/THS.2010.5655051     Document Type: Conference Paper

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