Design and implementation of an agent-based simulation for emergency response and crisis management

Spring Simulation Multiconference 2009 - Co-located with the 2009 SISO Spring Simulation Interoperability Workshop

Volumn , Issue , 2009, Pages

  Schoenharl, Timothy ^a   Zhai, Zhi ^a   McCune, Ryan ^a   Pawling, Alec ^a   Madey, Greg ^a  

^a University of Notre Dame   (United States)

Author keywords

Agent Based Simulation; Crisis Modeling; GIS

Indexed keywords

CELLULAR TELEPHONES; EMERGENCY SERVICES; GEOGRAPHIC INFORMATION SYSTEMS; LOCATION BASED SERVICES; MOBILE PHONES; SYSTEMS ANALYSIS; TELECOMMUNICATION EQUIPMENT; TELEPHONE SETS;

AGENT BASED SIMULATION; CELLULAR NETWORK; CELLULAR SERVICES; CRISIS MANAGEMENT; DESIGN AND IMPLEMENTATIONS; DYNAMIC DATA DRIVEN APPLICATION SYSTEMS; EMERGENCY RESPONSE; SIMULATION COMPONENTS;

CELLULAR TELEPHONE SYSTEMS;

EID: 84871252624     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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