Conditions for Normative Decision Making at the Fire Ground

TL;DR

This paper explores how technological advances in sensing and data processing influence decision making at fire grounds, proposing a framework that integrates normative and prescriptive approaches to improve emergency response decisions.

Contribution

It introduces a new framework for fire ground decision making that combines normative and prescriptive methods, enabling comparison between human and machine decisions.

Findings

Framework allows integration of normative and prescriptive decision approaches.

Enables comparison of human and machine decision performance.

Addresses the impact of new sensing technologies on decision processes.

Abstract

We discuss the changes in an attitude to decision making at the fire ground. The changes are driven by the recent technological shift. The emerging new approaches in sensing and data processing (under common umbrella of Cyber-Physical Systems) allow for leveling off the gap, between humans and machines, in perception of the fire ground. Furthermore, results from descriptive decision theory question the rationality of human choices. This creates the need for searching and testing new approaches for decision making during emergency. We propose the framework that addresses this need. The primary feature of the framework are possibilities for incorporation of normative and prescriptive approaches to decision making. The framework also allows for comparison of the performance of decisions, between human and machine.