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Emergencies, which are very difficult to be forecasted, would always bring about huge harm to people. Therefore, to find ways to reduce such devastating effects, researches on emergency management have turned to be paramount. Nowadays, the rapid development of computer technology has supplied a new and effective idea for the researches of emergency management, namely that the researches can be done in computers by performing simulation experiments according to the artificial societies, computational experiments, parallel execution (ACP) approach. Guided by this approach, this paper has proposed one agent-based prototype simulation system to research emergency management. Firstly, structure of the simulation system oriented to emergency management was analyzed and designed. Then a simulation system oriented to public health emergency management was constructed to study the transmission of infectious diseases. Finally, several experiments were carried out based on the system, with several significant conclusions having also been obtained.
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This work was supported by National Natural Science Foundation of China (Nos. 91024030 and 91224008).
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Zhi-Chao Song is currently a Ph. D. candidate at Research Center of Military Computational Experiments and Parallel System Technology, National University of Defense Technology, China. He has joined a project supported by National Nature and Science Foundation of China (No. 91024030) since 2010. His job is to build the artificial society in which lots of experiments in the social science fields can be done. In his job he cares more about the artificial society building methods and the social networks modeling.
His research interests include complex system modeling and social networks analysis.
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Yuan-Zheng Ge received her Ph.D. degree in control science and engineering from National University of Defense Technology, China in 2014. She is currently an engineer in Aeronautical University of China People Liberation Air-force.
Her research interests include agentbased modeling, artificial society, complex social networks and maintenance management of aircrafts.
Hong Duan received the Ph.D. degree in control science and engineering from National University of Defense Technology, China in 2001. She is currently an associate professor at Research Center of Parallel System Technology, National University of Defense Technology, China.
Her research interests include modeling and simulation, complex system, data analysis.
Xiao-Gang Qiu received the Ph.D. degree in system simulation from National University of Defense Technology, China in 1998. He is currently a professor with the College of Information System and Management, National University of Defense Technology.
His research interests include simulation, multi-agent systems, knowledge management, and parallel control.
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Song, ZC., Ge, YZ., Duan, H. et al. Agent-based simulation systems for emergency management. Int. J. Autom. Comput. 13, 89–98 (2016). https://doi.org/10.1007/s11633-016-0958-6
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