Yazar, U. T. and Akşit, M. 'Chapter 10— An architectural framework for the allocation resources in emergency management systems’, in Management and Engineering of Critical Infrastructures, 1st ed.; Bedir Tekinerdogan, Mehmet Akşit, Cagatay Catal, William Hurst, Tarek Alskaif, Eds.; by Academic Press: Cambridge, MA, USA, pp. 223 - 241, 2023
30.09.23
Abstract
Aid activities can be modeled as tasks that are assigned to resources. For example, if a building collapses due to an earthquake, several aid activities can be assigned to task forces:
Security forces are called to protect the area, rescue teams to remove the people from under the rubble, ambulances to transfer the wounded ones to hospitals, etc. The required tasks and resources depend obviously on the type of emergency conditions, which aregenerally specified in a set of predefined procedures. As such, the execution of aid activities can be planned by scheduling the relevant activities.
In large-scale emergency conditions, there may not be enough resources to satisfy the needs of all tasks. In such cases, it may be necessary to prioritize and/or trade-off the assignment of resources to the tasks. In the case of prioritization, resources are first assigned to the tasks with higher priorities. In case of a trade-off, a compromise is made in assigning resources, for example, by assigning a reduced number of resources than the required ones. A mixed strategy can also be adopted by grouping tasks. The first group oftasks, for example, is assigned to the required tasks as desired, the second group can only receive say 80% of the desired resources, and so on.
This chapter introduces a novel emergency control system architecture for earthquake management. The emergency instances which are obtained for example from a dedicated IoT network are first processed and converted to sets of tasks for aid activities.
Second, the required resources are determined. If the scheduling of tasks over the available resources is not possible without exceeding the deadlines, various prioritization and/or trade-off strategies are applied. To facilitate flexibility, the architecture is designed as an open system where new strategies can be introduced if necessary. As a case study, emergencies caused by earthquakes are studied. To the best of our knowledge, there has not been a significant publication on an architectural approach for the automated scheduling of tasks and resolving conflicts in earthquake management. https://shop.elsevier.com/books/management-and-engineering-of-critical-infrastructures/tekinerdogan/978-0-323-99330-2