Designing realistic scenarios for disaster management quantitative models

Jorge Vargas Florez, Aurelie Charles, Matthieu Lauras, Lionel Dupont

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Abstract

Disaster Management has received a lot of attention over the last twenty years, and can now be considered a full research area. But a gap exists between research work proposals and their applications on the field. This is particularly true regarding quantitative approaches. One of the main issues is that the scenarios used to design and validate the proposals are often not accurate and/or too simple compared to the complexity of real situations. Designing realistic scenarios is of prime importance to be able to propose relevant quantitative models which could be implemented by practitioners. This paper tackles this problem by proposing a structured methodology which aims at defining realistic disaster scenarios. The case of earthquakes management in Peru is used to illustrate the consistency of our proposal.

Original languageEnglish
Title of host publicationISCRAM 2014 Conference Proceedings - 11th International Conference on Information Systems for Crisis Response and Management
PublisherThe Pennsylvania State University
Pages180-189
Number of pages10
ISBN (Print)9780692211946
StatePublished - 2014
Event11th International Conference on Information Systems for Crisis Response and Management, ISCRAM 2014 - University Park, PA, United States
Duration: 1 May 20141 May 2014

Publication series

NameISCRAM 2014 Conference Proceedings - 11th International Conference on Information Systems for Crisis Response and Management

Conference

Conference11th International Conference on Information Systems for Crisis Response and Management, ISCRAM 2014
Country/TerritoryUnited States
CityUniversity Park, PA
Period1/05/141/05/14

Keywords

  • Disaster management
  • Disaster scenario
  • Quantitative model
  • Realism

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