I-Corps: A web-based simulator of an emergency operations center

I-Corps：紧急行动中心的基于网络的模拟器

• 批准号: 1550535
• 负责人: Gregory Madey
• 金额: $ 5万
• 依托单位: University of Notre Dame
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 项目类别: Standard Grant
• 财政年份: 2015
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2015-08-15 至 2017-07-31
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=1550535&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: Corps; web; based; simulator; emergency

An Emergency Operations Center (EOC) is a secure location in which upper level emergency managers gather together to prepare for, manage, and coordinate preparation and recovery activities in response to an emergency situation (e.g. hurricane, earthquake, epidemic or outbreak, tsunami). While in-person exercises are the gold standard for training, because of time and cost the frequency of such in-person training events is limited. The I-Corps team has developed a simulator that will enable emergency managers to train more effectively and more frequently in a virtual, distributed environment. The proposed technology will enable better training of emergency managers, potentially resulting in lives saved and reduction of property loss. Through advanced technological training, emergency managers, can train more often, for less cost.When a disaster occurs, emergency personnel set up a management structure called an Incident Command System (ICS) to manage the incident. The personnel in the ICS have to gather information and coordinate among various organizations and across jurisdictions with local, state, and federal agencies. These are complex tasks that require training to ensure that all participants and their organizations are familiar with current plans, policies, agreements and procedures. Such training is typically performed by a range of in-person approaches, including discussion-based tabletop exercises and full-scale operations-based exercises simulating a specific incident with full participation of all responsible organizations. The proposed simulator,SimEOC, can simulate the emergency incident and the distributed web-based participation of all the participating organizations. A centralized web-server will support over 100 trainees in such a training exercise. At the end of the I-Corps immersion curriculum the existing research prototype (alpha version) could be used for a "live-code" proof-of-concept demonstration; optimistically the re-engineered enterprise quality version under current development (beta version) may be ready to preview as well.

紧急运营中心（EOC）是一个安全的地点，高层紧急管理人员聚集在一起为紧急情况准备，管理和协调准备和恢复活动（例如飓风，地震，流行病或暴发，海啸）。虽然面对面的练习是训练的黄金标准，但由于时间并花费了这种面对面培训活动的频率是有限的。 I-Corps团队已经开发了一个模拟器，该模拟器将使应急管理人员能够在虚拟的分布式环境中更有效，更频繁地培训。拟议的技术将使应急管理人员更好地培训，从而可能导致挽救的生命并减少财产损失。通过先进的技术培训，应急管理人员可以以更少的成本进行培训。发生灾难时，紧急人员建立了一个称为事件命令系统（ICS）的管理结构来管理事件。 IC中的人员必须与地方，州和联邦机构之间以及各个司法管辖区之间的信息和协调。这些是复杂的任务，需要培训以确保所有参与者及其组织都熟悉当前的计划，政策，协议和程序。这种培训通常由一系列面对面的方法进行，包括基于讨论的桌面练习和基于全面操作的练习，模拟特定事件，并在所有负责任的组织中充分参与。拟议的模拟器Simeoc可以模拟所有参与组织的紧急事件和基于Web的分布式参与。集中式网络服务器将在此类培训中为100多名学员提供支持。在I-Corps浸入式课程的结尾，现有的研究原型（Alpha版本）可用于“实时代码”概念证明；在当前开发（Beta版本）下，乐观地重新设计的企业质量版本也可以预览。