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CEMPS: A prototype spatial decision support system to aid in planning emergency evacuations
Author(s) -
PIDD MICHAEL,
EGLESE RICHARD,
SILVA F NISHAKUMARI
Publication year - 1996
Publication title -
transactions in gis
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.721
H-Index - 63
eISSN - 1467-9671
pISSN - 1361-1682
DOI - 10.1111/j.1467-9671.1996.tb00054.x
Subject(s) - plan (archaeology) , geographic information system , decision support system , computer science , process (computing) , software , arc (geometry) , spatial decision support system , spatial analysis , operations research , simulation , systems engineering , engineering , geography , data mining , cartography , operating system , remote sensing , mechanical engineering , archaeology
CEMPS is a prototype spatial decision support system which links the topographical support and analysis provided by a geographic information system, ARC/INFO, with the ability to simulate the dynamics of an evacuation process. CEMPS has been designed to enable emergency planners to experiment with different emergency evacuation plans in order to devise a plan which meets their requirements. ARC/INFO is used to parameterize a dynamic simulation with topographical information and to display its results. The prototype runs on a Sun SPARCStation cluster but could be modified to run on other hardware and software.