| Article ID: | iaor20063295 |
| Country: | United Kingdom |
| Volume: | 6 |
| Issue: | 4/6 |
| Start Page Number: | 528 |
| End Page Number: | 544 |
| Publication Date: | Apr 2006 |
| Journal: | International Journal of Risk Assessment and Management |
| Authors: | Kanno Taro, Morimoto Yusuke, Furuta Kazuo |
| Keywords: | measurement |
In order to design effective disaster emergency management systems, a number of factors, including not only accident/disaster phenomena but also human behaviours such as coordination and communication between different organisations, should be considered in an integrated and comprehensive manner. In this paper, we propose the basic design of MASTERD: a Multi-Agent Simulation sysTem of Emergency Response in Disasters. The chief characteristics of MASTERD are (1) its system extensibility, allowing for easy integration of various simulations, and (2) its behavioural simulation of many different individuals and organisations in emergency response. We present the development of a prototype of MASTERD for nuclear disasters and discuss possible applications of MASTERD for various social safety and security issues.