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2015 | OriginalPaper | Chapter
Use of Complex Networks Theory in Emergency/Disaster Management
Authors : Jin Li, Xian Cheng, Yang Dai, Huaping Wu, Wei Dong, Stephen Shaoyi Liao
Published in: LISS 2013
Publisher: Springer Berlin Heidelberg
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Abstract
Earthquakes, hurricanes and terrorist attacks pose a severe threat to our society. When such a disaster happens, it spread in a wide range with ubiquitous presence of a large-scale networked system. Therefore, the emergency/disaster management faces new challenges that the decision-makers have extra difficulties in perceiving the disaster dynamic spreading processes under this networked environment. This study tries to use the complex networks theory to tackle this complexity and the result shows the theory is a promising approach to support disaster/emergency management by focusing on simulation experiments of small world networks and scale free networks. In particular, the complex networks theory is very strong at analyzing the complexity and dynamical changes of a networked system, which can improve the situation awareness after a disaster has occurred and help perceive its dynamic process, which is very important for high-quality decision making.