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In the thirteen years that have elapsed since the Chernobyl accident, many studies and developments have been made with the aim of improving our response to any future accident. One project has been the development of a decision support system to aid emergency management. rodos, a Real time online Decision support system for nuclear emergency management, has been built by a consortium of many institutes across Europe and the cis. As it approaches (standby!) operational use, we face the task of tailoring the output to meet the specific needs of users and simultaneously opening up their minds to full potential of a modern decision support system (dss). This paper reports a number of investigations into the decision support needs of the competent national safety authorities and reflects on the implications of rodos for the emergency management process.
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Bartzis, J. et al. (2000). Rodos: Decision Support for Nuclear Emergencies. In: Zanakis, S.H., Doukidis, G., Zopounidis, C. (eds) Decision Making: Recent Developments and Worldwide Applications. Applied Optimization, vol 45. Springer, Boston, MA. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4757-4919-9_25
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