Team 7: Investigating the Use of Simulation Tools for Mass Casualty Disaster Response
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Heath, Susan
Dolk, Dan
Sheldon, Brittlea
Yu, Leigh
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2009-03
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March 2009
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The focus for Team 7 at IDFW 18 was the investigation of
modeling requirements for simulating mass-casualty
disaster response scenarios and the investigation of how
existing simulation packages could meet these requirements.
We began with a brainstorming session of possible events
that could result in mass-casualty disaster situations. To
provide a framework for our thinking, we developed a basic
scenario to consider while discussing what types of features
a modeling software package would need to have to build a
useful simulation model for this type of scenario. This
discussion inherently included consideration of both the
discrete-event simulation (DES) and the agent-based
simulation (ABS) methodologies. The list of features was
used to evaluate several simulation software packages for
suitability. Next, details were specified for the scenario and
team members attempted to build simulation models using
four different packages: Arena, NetLogo, Pythagoras and
Sandis. In addition, we interviewed experts in additional
packages: MANA, PAX, and Extend. With the results of this
investigation and experience, we drew some conclusions
about simulation modeling of mass-casualty disaster
response scenarios.
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from Scythe : Proceedings and Bulletin of the International Data Farming Community, Issue 6 Workshop 18
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