Decision Models and Group Decision Support Systems for Emergency Management and City Resilience

2021 ◽  
pp. 723-740
Author(s):  
Yumei Chen ◽  
Xiaoyi Zhao ◽  
Eliot Rich ◽  
Luis Felipe Luna-Reyes
Keyword(s):  
Decision Support ◽  
Emergency Management ◽  
Decision Support Systems ◽  
Group Decision ◽  
Support Systems ◽  
Group Decision Support ◽  
Group Decision Support Systems ◽  
Decision Models ◽  
Graduate Course ◽  
Coastal Cities

This paper introduces the concept of Group Decision Support Systems (GDSS) as a tool to support emergency management and resilience in coastal cities. As an illustration of the potential value of GDSS, we discuss the use of the Pointe Claire teaching case. Participants in the exercise work in groups to approach the case using four different computer-supported decision models to explore and recommend policies for emergency mitigation and city resilience. The case, as well as the decision models, can be a valuable GDSS tool, particularly in the mitigation stages of the emergency management cycle. We present preliminary results from the use of the case, models and a simulation environment in a graduate course. We finish the paper by presenting our experience as a framework for building more efficient and secure emergency management systems through the use of GDSS.

Decision Models and Group Decision Support Systems for Emergency Management and City Resilience

2018 ◽  
Vol 7 (2) ◽  
pp. 35-50
Author(s):  
Yumei Chen ◽  
Xiaoyi Zhao ◽  
Eliot Rich ◽  
Luis Felipe Luna-Reyes
Keyword(s):  
Decision Support ◽  
Emergency Management ◽  
Decision Support Systems ◽  
Group Decision ◽  
Support Systems ◽  
Group Decision Support ◽  
Group Decision Support Systems ◽  
Decision Models ◽  
Graduate Course ◽  
Coastal Cities

This paper introduces the concept of Group Decision Support Systems (GDSS) as a tool to support emergency management and resilience in coastal cities. As an illustration of the potential value of GDSS, we discuss the use of the Pointe Claire teaching case. Participants in the exercise work in groups to approach the case using four different computer-supported decision models to explore and recommend policies for emergency mitigation and city resilience. The case, as well as the decision models, can be a valuable GDSS tool, particularly in the mitigation stages of the emergency management cycle. We present preliminary results from the use of the case, models and a simulation environment in a graduate course. We finish the paper by presenting our experience as a framework for building more efficient and secure emergency management systems through the use of GDSS.

Group Decision Support Systems in the Classroom

1995 ◽  
Vol 11 (3) ◽  
pp. 73-78
Author(s):  
Milam Aiken ◽  
Steve Strombeck ◽  
Joyce Morrison
Keyword(s):  
Decision Support ◽  
Decision Support Systems ◽  
Group Decision ◽  
Support Systems ◽  
Group Decision Support ◽  
Group Decision Support Systems

Group Decision Support Systems

2009 ◽  
pp. 82-89
Author(s):  
John Wang ◽  
James Yao
Keyword(s):  
Decision Making ◽  
Information Technology ◽  
Decision Support ◽  
Decision Support Systems ◽  
Group Decision ◽  
Support Systems ◽  
Group Support Systems ◽  
Group Decision Support ◽  
Group Decision Support Systems

Group decision support systems (GDSSs) which aim at increasing some of the benefits of collaboration and reducing the inherent losses are interactive information technology-based environments that support concerted and coordinated group efforts toward completion of joint tasks (Dennis, George, Jessup, Nunamaker, & Vogel, 1998). The term group support systems (GSSs) was coined at the start of the 1990’s to replace the term GDSS. The reason for this is that the role of collaborative computing was expanded to more than just supporting decision making (Patrick & Garrick, 2006). For the avoidance of any ambiguities, the latter term shall be used in the discussion throughout this paper

The Decision Hedgehog

2011 ◽  
pp. 148-154
Author(s):  
Patrick Humphreys
Keyword(s):  
Decision Making ◽  
Decision Support ◽  
Decision Support Systems ◽  
Group Decision ◽  
Support Systems ◽  
Group Decision Support ◽  
Group Decision Support Systems ◽  
Decision Systems ◽  
Perceived Need ◽  
The Impact

The discourses established as the foundations of group decision support systems (GDSS) have been called into question not only in the interests of advancing the academic GDSS field (Bannon, 1997), but also out of the perceived need to plug gaps that sophisticated GDSS systems throw up in practice (Huber, 1981; Humphreys & Brezillon, 2002; Humphreys & Jones, 2006; Stabell, 1987). The limitations of rational perspectives of “decision- making as choice” have been raised (Carlsson, 2002; Cyert & March, 1992; Nappelbaum, 1997). The challenges relate to failures of implementation, the rise of unintended outcomes, the impact of cultures of fear and failure within organisations (Humphreys & Nappelbaum, 1997), and problems associated with externalisation of decision systems designers who “play God” by designing from outside the game for those who are inside (Humphreys, 1989).

Engineering Mobile Group Decision Support

2010 ◽  
pp. 51-65
Author(s):  
Reinhard Kronsteiner
Keyword(s):  
Decision Support ◽  
Decision Support Systems ◽  
Group Decision ◽  
Support Systems ◽  
Temporal Distribution ◽  
Work Practice ◽  
Group Decision Support ◽  
Group Decision Support Systems ◽  
Mobile Multimedia ◽  
Temporal Flexibility

This chapter is about mobile multimedia and its usage in group decisions. With respect to the complexity of mobile decision scenarios, this paper presents the foundation for engineering mobile group decision support systems. Mobile multimedia allows the adaptation of information technology to the increasing mobile work practice with location independent access to information resource. This spatial and temporal flexibility strongly affects group behaviour in decision scenarios. As a prerequisite for identifying the potential of mobile technology a set of indicators is identified. Using these indicators an exemplary decision process is presented and evaluated according potential for mobile support and mobile needs. Analysing the scenario leads to particular implementation requirements on interaction, spatial distribution, and temporal distribution to be respected in mobile group decision support systems.

E-Collaboration Using Group Decision Support Systems in Virtual Meetings

2011 ◽  
pp. 204-209 ◽  
Author(s):  
Jamie S. Switzer ◽  
Jackie L. Hartman
Keyword(s):  
Decision Support ◽  
Decision Support Systems ◽  
Group Decision ◽  
Support Systems ◽  
Group Decision Support ◽  
Group Decision Support Systems ◽  
Face To Face ◽  
Electronic Environment ◽  
Computer Mediated ◽  
Virtual Meetings

When e-collaborating, there is often a need to bring everyone involved together for a meeting. With potential meeting participants often widely dispersed geographically, the meeting could be conducted virtually by utilizing technology known as groupware. Procedures for conducting successful face-to-face meetings have been in place for many years. However, with the rise in the number of computer-mediated virtual meetings being held amongst e-collaborators, there are additional considerations to take into account when conducting virtual meetings using groupware. This article discusses the use of a particular type of groupware (GDSS) in virtual meetings conducted by participants collaborating in an electronic environment.

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