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Requirements Engineering of Malaysia’s Radiation and Nuclear Emergency Plan Simulator

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Intelligent Software Methodologies, Tools and Techniques (SoMeT 2014)

Part of the book series: Communications in Computer and Information Science ((CCIS,volume 513))

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Responses to disastrous radiation and nuclear meltdown incidents require a large and complex emergency health and social care capacity planning framework. Incompleteness, inconsistency, and infeasibility of the provided requirements of the proposed planning framework might create unnecessary conflicts during the system development. In this paper, we propose the requirements engineering of an emergency preparedness and response simulation model for the Malaysian radiation and nuclear emergency plan simulator. This simulator development refers to an empirical interpretive approach following the pragmatism view. This approach involves the construction of the dedicated simulator by interpreting insights and document analysis relevant to the stakeholders in the respective emergency plan in order to plan and manage responses to emergencies and disasters. Dedicated process models (overall process map and workflow diagram) explain that, those organisations unable to define and identify the disaster coordinator roles and responsibilities, resources and equipment may contribute 65.63 % of emergency plan disorder and severe calamities. Those models are able to materialise the structure of a simulation workflow in order to demonstrate in training the emergency response prerequisites rather than intervention principles alone. It is likely that, this approach is significantly useful and justifies a mixture of tacit and explicit knowledge among the emergency plan experts. Therefore, a strategic, simplified and prevailing radiation and nuclear emergency plan simulator can be attained, though it is certainly as complex.

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Acknowledgements

We wish to extend our gratitude to Prof. Dr. Maman Djauhari for his outstanding qualitative regression analysis technique. We are also grateful to the support granted by the Research Management Centre, Universiti Teknologi Malaysia under the Exploratory Research Grant Scheme (Vote No. QJ130000.7828.4L051) as well as Dr. Faridah Mohamad Idris for her guidance.

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  1. Department of Information Systems, Faculty of Computing, Universiti Teknologi Malaysia (UTM), 81310, Johor Bahru, Johor, Malaysia

    Amy Hamijah binti Ab. Hamid, Mohd Zaidi Abd Rozan & Roliana Ibrahim

  2. Department of Software Engineering, Faculty of Computing, Universiti Teknologi Malaysia (UTM), 81310, Johor Bahru, Johor, Malaysia

    Safaai Deris & Ali Selamat

  3. Research and Technology Development Program, Malaysian Nuclear Agency (NM), 43000, Bangi, Kajang, Selangor, Malaysia

    Muhd. Noor Muhd. Yunus

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Hamid, A.H.b.A., Rozan, M.Z.A., Ibrahim, R., Deris, S., Selamat, A., Yunus, M.N.M. (2015). Requirements Engineering of Malaysia’s Radiation and Nuclear Emergency Plan Simulator. In: Fujita, H., Selamat, A. (eds) Intelligent Software Methodologies, Tools and Techniques. SoMeT 2014. Communications in Computer and Information Science, vol 513. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-17530-0_7

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