2002 Volume 4 Pages 267-274
This study focused on disaster management manuals presented in the regional disaster management plan of Kobe city.Through modeling those manuals by integration definition for function modeling,IDEF0,the aim is to broach IDEF0 as an analysis method of disaster management manuals. Taking account of the importance of establishing logistics operation in disasters,4 manuals related to information flow,one of the most fnudamental tasks in logistics,were selected as the main objects. Results showed 1)that IDEF0 is an useful tool to describe the emergency plan, and 2)that local administators can identify the missing links among the emergency plans at different departments by integrating the manuals written in IDEF0.
