Mediation Information System Engineering Applied to the Crisis Simulation

Abstract

Decision makers have to face an increasing number of disasters, natural or human-made, which complexity can be various (e.g. from a flood in a specific area to a CBRN accident), and across geographical and policy borders. To face the unexpected, practitioners commonly use simulation tools and train themselves on various situations. However, while simulation has become a cornerstone of the crisis management topic, plenty of simulation tools have been implemented for a lot of different applications and it is sometimes hard to choose the right set of tools to use together to better solve particular crisis situations. To avoid a waste of time and resources, and to foster the reuse of existing crisis simulation tools, this paper proposes a platform to (i) identify simulation tools, (ii) support interoperability among the tools by inferring simulation workflows that invoke the tools and (iii) execute those simulation workflows to improve crisis responses.