2008 Volume 5 Pages 156-162
It is necessary to consider various influencing factors including harmful effects of disasters, damages of infrastructures, behavior of citizens, etc. in designing effective and resilient emergency response systems. Human factors in inter- and intra-organizational coordination is one of the major issues for the system design, however, it has not been paid much attention. In this study, we have investigated human factors in emergency response, especially for inter- and intra-organizational coordination, and developed a model of organizational behavior as well as domain ontology for emergency response in disasters. We incorporated the model into the simulation model previously developed and showed some simulation results reflecting those human factors.
