Interdependency Modeling and Emergency Response
Donald Dudenhoeffer, May Permann, Steven Woolsey, Robert Timpany, Tony McDermott, Chuck Miller and Milos Manic
Summer Computer Simulation Conference 2007 (SCSC 2007)
San Diego, California (USA), July 15-18, 2007
Abstract
In large-scale disaster events, infrastructure owners are faced with many challenges in deciding the allocation of resources for preparation and response actions. This decision process involves building situation awareness, evaluating course of action, and effecting response. This paper describes a modeling and simulation system called CIMSİ that presents a visual environment for assessing the causal effects of events and actions in complex environments. Specifically, CIMSİ provides a framework for evaluating cascading effects associated with infrastructure interdependencies, thus providing greater situational awareness to infrastructure owners and decision-makers. This paper first presents the area of interdependency analysis and then presents CIMSİ as a network framework for simulating the interactions between multiple infrastructures. Also introduced is the integration of infrastructure simulation with a decision support systems.