Event-Cloud Platform to Support Decision- Making in Emergency Management

TL;DR

This paper demonstrates how an Event-Cloud Platform can enhance emergency management by modeling crisis response processes and automating decision support during nuclear crises.

Contribution

It introduces a novel application of Event-Cloud technology to improve crisis response and decision-making in emergency management, specifically for nuclear crises.

Findings

Supports crisis management stakeholders by automating non-value tasks.

Guides decision-makers to focus on critical decision points.

Shows feasibility of Event-Cloud in emergency scenarios.

Abstract

The challenge of this paper is to underline the capability of an Event-Cloud Platform to support efficiently an emergency situation. We chose to focus on a nuclear crisis use case. The proposed approach consists in modeling the business processes of crisis response on the one hand, and in supporting the orchestration and execution of these processes by using an Event-Cloud Platform on the other hand. This paper shows how the use of Event-Cloud techniques can support crisis management stakeholders by automatizing non-value added tasks and by directing decision- makers on what really requires their capabilities of choice. If Event-Cloud technology is a very interesting and topical subject, very few research works have considered this to improve emergency management. This paper tries to fill this gap by considering and applying these technologies on a nuclear crisis use-case.