Crisis response simulation combining discrete-event and agent-based modeling

Crisis response simulation combining discrete-event and agent-based modeling

Gonzalez, R.A.

Technology, Policy and Management

Multi Actor Systems

2009-05-10

This paper presents a crisis response simulation model architecture combining a discrete-event simulation (DES) environment for a crisis scenario with an agent-based model of the response organization. In multi-agent systems (MAS) as a computational organization, agents are modeled and implemented separately from the environmental model. We follow this perspective and submit an architecture in which the environment is modeled as a discreteevent simulation, and the crisis response agents are modeled as a multi-agent system. The simultaneous integration and separation of both models allows for independent modifications of the response organization and the scenario, resulting in a testbed that allows testing different organizations to respond to the same scenario or different emergencies for the same organization. It also provides a high-level architecture suggesting the way in which DES and MAS can be combined into a single simulation in a simple way.

multi-agent systems
discrete-event simulation
coordination
crisis response

http://resolver.tudelft.nl/uuid:ab049f2e-fabd-42e1-8bd0-e4b9e8a396b6

ISCRAM

978-91-633-4715-3

ISCRAM 2009: Proceedings of the 6th International Conference on Information Systems for Crisis Response and Management, Gothenborg, Sweden, 10-13 May 2009

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conference paper

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