Event Generation for Emergency Scenarios Simulation

Abstract

Natural and technological disasters have been part of the daily life of societies in recent decades, causing harm and disruption in different parts of the world where they occur. Emergency management is the discipline that aims to promote support to the populations involved in a disaster, in order to mitigate the consequences of such disaster. Modelling and simulation plays a key role in decision-making and training in face of complex systems and procedures. Organizations responsible for responding to different types of disaster need tools that can improve the training and preparation of disaster support teams, creating scenarios as close to reality as possible. This chapter reports the creation of a solution for a scenario generation system capable of producing events similar to those verified in disasters, with a view to conducting training sessions, including near-real-time tabletop exercises and the planning and execution of field exercises, with the aim of decision-making training for relief teams in emergency situations.