Model-driven disaster management

Authors

Siti Hajar Othman, Universiti Teknologi MalaysiaFollow
Ghassan Beydoun, University of WollongongFollow

RIS ID

79377

Publication Details

Othman, S. Hajar. & Beydoun, G. (2013). Model-driven disaster management. Information and Management, 50 (5), 218-228.

Abstract

Disaster management (DM) is a challenging domain to model because of the variety of dynamic characteristics attached to the domain. Metamodeling is a model-driven approach that describes how semantic domain models can be built into an artifact called a Metamodel. By collecting all the domain concepts and partitioning the domain problems into sub-domain-problems, a metamodel can produce a domain-specific language. This paper presents a Disaster Management Metamodel that can serve as a representational layer of DM expertise. This metamodel leads to better knowledge sharing and facilitates combining and matching different DM activities to best manage the disaster on hand.