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Reducing the complexity and surprise of emergencies can efficiently alleviate negative impacts on society, either local or global. A good model which can simplify complex events by constructing views to describe changes of entity behaviors and the dynamic and time-varying relationships is the key approach to handle surprise crises. Conventional conceptual modeling has limitations on mapping dynamic real world. Active modeling is suggested as the appropriate way to deal with such surprises. A case study of Hurricane Katrina is used as an example to explain some active modeling concepts including temporal conceptual modeling, multi-perspective modeling, and data, information and knowledge integration.
This research was partially supported by National Science Foundation grant: IIS-0326387 and AFOSR grant: FA9550-05-1-0454.
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Xu, X. (2007). To Support Emergency Management by Using Active Modeling: A Case of Hurricane Katrina. In: Chen, P.P., Wong, L.Y. (eds) Active Conceptual Modeling of Learning. ACM-L 2006. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 4512. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-540-77503-4_11
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