Multi-user system for training and evaluation of environmental emergency management response -- MUSTER
- Risoe National Lab., Roskilde (Denmark). Systems Analysis Dept.
The efficiency with which complex, large-scale organizations respond to emergencies and critical situations depends crucially on the coordination of actions and communication among decision makers. However, decision makers have typically few opportunities to train distributed crisis management under artificial, yet realistic conditions; and at the same time, real emergencies occur fortunately so relatively infrequently that few decision makers have a chance of establishing a useful real-life experience of crisis management. There is therefore a need for having available realistic and flexible multi-user training environments in which coordinated response to crises or emergencies may be trained. At the same time, a flexible training environment supporting tactical training of coordinated emergency response can be used as a platform on the basis of which not only emergency response capability can be evaluated but also different procedures and practices and even control systems may be assessed before they are put into real use. In order to identify requirements to, develop specifications of and finally produce a prototype of a flexible training and evaluation environment, a two-year project, MUSTER: Multi-User System for Training and Evaluation of Environmental Emergency Response, was started in 1993 and is now approaching its completion by mid-95.
- OSTI ID:
- 282316
- Report Number(s):
- CONF-9505224--; ISBN 1-56555-079-X
- Country of Publication:
- United States
- Language:
- English
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