RT Journal Article
SR 00
ID 10.1080/17517575.2016.1212275
A1 Chaawa, Mohamed
A1 Hanachi, Chihab
A1 Thabet, Inès
A1 Ben Said, Lamjed
T1 Modelling and simulating a crisis management system
JF Enterprise Information Systems
YR 2017
FD 2017-07-25
VO vol. 11
IS n° 4
SP 534
OP 550
K1 Crisis management
K1 multi-agent system
K1 organisation
K1 simulation
AB Crises are complex situations due to the dynamism of the environment, its unpredictability and the complexity of the interactions among several different and autonomous involved organisations. In such a context, establishing an organisational view as well as structuring organisations’ communications and their functioning is a crucial requirement. In this article, we propose a multi-agent organisational model (OM) to abstract, simulate and analyse a crisis management system (CMS). The objective is to evaluate the CMS from an organisational view, to assess its strength as well as its weakness and to provide deciders with some recommendations for a more flexible and reactive CMS. The proposed OM is illustrated through a real case study: a snowstorm in a Tunisian region. More precisely, we made the following contribution: firstly, we provide an environmental model that identifies the concepts involved in the crisis. Then, we define a role model that copes with the involved actors. In addition, we specify the organisational structure and the interaction model that rule communications and structure actors’ functioning. Those models, built following the GAIA methodology, abstract the CMS from an organisational perspective. Finally, we implemented a customisable multi-agent simulator based on the Janus platform to analyse, through several performed simulations, the organisational model.
PB Taylor & Francis
SN 1751-7583
LK https://publications.ut-capitole.fr/id/eprint/27286/