Analyze the Action Planning Problem in Disaster Responder Teams

Abstract

Strategic planning of activities of field units (agents) is a critical mechanism for coordination of agents by the top level of a disaster response team. Because of significance of strategic action planning (SAP) in efficient disaster emergency response, it is important to analyze the SAP problem in order to support development of proper approaches for SAP. The contribution of this paper is a model of the SAP problem that presents several dimensions of this problem including the problem domain, geographic information, geospatial-temporal macro tasks, strategic action planning, strategic action scheduling, and disaster emergency response team.