When attempting to determine how to respond optimally to a large-scale emergency, the
ability to predict the consequences of certain courses of action in silico is of great utility …

This book has emerged through years of discussions, comments and questions we have
received about building agentbased models and integrating geographical information …

Complexity, complex systems and complexity theories are becoming increasingly important
within a variety disciplines. While these issues are less well known within the discipline of …

Following a major disaster, hospitals must promptly rearrange their organization and
treatment procedures to deal with the sudden arrival of a high number of injured people to …

During emergency response situations, decisions have to be made in a timely manner.
Multiple entities have to be op-timally coordinated and numerous resources must be allo …

During a major incident, the emergency services work together to ensure that those
casualties who are critically injured are identified and transported to an appropriate hospital …

Evacuation modeling is a promising measure to support decision making in scenarios such
as flooding, explosion, terrorist attack and other emergency incidents. Given the special …

Severe flooding has caused major damage and disruption to households, communities,
businesses, and organizations in many parts of the world. In the United Kingdom (UK) …

ABSTRACT Agent-based models (ABMs)/multi-agent systems (MASs) are today one of the
most widely used modeling–simulation–analysis approaches for understanding the …

Agent-based modeling has become a viable alternative and complement-to-traditional
analysis methods for studying complex social environments. In this paper, we survey the role …