With the increasing frequency of natural and man-made disasters, emergency management has become a key research field aimed at saving lives and reducing environmental and economic losses. As the core link in responding to sudden crisis events, emerge...
In recent years, we have witnessed an increase in emergency and catastrophic events. It is now crucial for professionals involved in emergency management to stay updated on issues and statistics related to decision-making in emergency situations. Eme...
Decision-making algorithms based on big data, artificial intelligence and other technologies are increasingly being applied to urban emergency decision-making, and urban smart emergency response is gradually appearing to be transformed from tradition...
15 August 2022
Water environmental emergency (WEE) in expressway region is a special kind of risk event with several characteristics, such as rarity, unconventionality, and harmfulness. The emergency decision-making (EDM) features, procedures, and methods are consi...
With the rapid development of the urbanization process, rainstorm water-logging events occur more frequently in big cities in China, which causes great impact on urban traffic safety and brings about severe economic losses. Water-logging has become a...
Given the increasing demand for rapid emergency management decision-making, which must be both timely and reliable, even slight delays can result in substantial human and economic losses. However, current systems and recent state-of-the-art work ofte...
Emergency decision-making has become as one of the hot issues in recent years. The aim of emergency decision-making is to reduce the casualties and property losses. All the processes of emergency decision-making are full of incompleteness and hesitat...
This study aims to provide a more robust understanding of the elements involved in emergency managers’ decision-making processes when issuing hurricane evacuation orders. We used the principles of the theory of bounded rationality to formulate...
(1) Introduction: Working in an emergency department requires fast and straightforward decisions. Therefore, decision guidance represents an essential tool for successful patient-centered care. Beyond the residents’ own knowledge and experience...
Maritime emergency materials distribution is a key aspect of maritime emergency responses. To effectively deal with the challenges brought by the uncertainty of the maritime transport environment, the multi-agent joint decision-making location-routin...
To tackle preference conflicts and uncertainty in large-group emergency decision-making (LGEDM), this study proposes a probabilistic linguistic LGEDM method integrating the Louvain algorithm and group pressure model. First, expert weights are determi...
This study presents a novel risk-based decision support system for helping disaster risk management planners select the best locations for emergency shelters after an earthquake. The system starts by identifying 18 criteria, based on stakeholder anal...
Decisions are a crucial aspect of human life, especially when made in emergency contexts. This research involved 348 subjects, evaluating the relationship between socio-demographic variables and the choice of one of the proposed emergency scenarios s...
To address high uncertainty, dynamic evolution, and limited information in emergency decision-making for major sudden disasters, this paper proposes a sliding-window game-theoretic method with four reference points for emergency response selection. F...
With the continuous increase in highway mileage and vehicles in China, highway accidents are also increasing year by year. However, the on-site disposal procedures of highway accidents are complex, which makes it difficult for the emergency departmen...
The middle route of the South-to-North Water Diversion Project is one of the crucial frameworks of China’s water network and an essential channel for water resource allocation in North China. The safe operation of the project has a huge impact...
Background: This study aimed to evaluate Emergency Department and Intensive Care Unit nurses’ skills in interpreting blood gas analysis results and to use those interpretations in clinical decision-making. Methods: In this prospective, multicen...
Intuitionistic fuzzy distance measurement is an effective method to study multi-attribute emergency decision-making (MAEDM) problems. Unfortunately, the traditional intuitionistic fuzzy distance measurement method cannot accurately reflect the differ...
To reasonably allocate emergency supply reserve warehouses and enhance the utilization efficiency of emergency supply reserves, this paper proposes a new optimization method for the site selection of emergency supply reserve warehouses based on gray...
Autonomous vehicles (AVs) are supposed to identify obstacles automatically and form appropriate emergency strategies constantly to ensure driving safety and improve traffic efficiency. However, not all collisions will be avoidable, and AVs are requir...
Once an emergency event (EE) happens, emergency decision-making (EDM) plays a key role in mitigating the loss. EDM is a complex problem. Compared with conventional decision-making problems, more experts participate in decision-making. It usually has...
Under the influence of COVID-19, various emergency supplies have repeatedly broken links, seriously affecting normal life and hindering the sustainable development of enterprises and society. Therefore, suitable emergency suppliers are crucial. To pr...
In recent decades, various types of emergencies have started to occur more frequently. Their impact and complexity have increased significantly, bringing serious challenges to the sustainable development of the economy, society and the environment. E...
The study of emergency decision making (EDM) is helpful to reduce the difficulty of decision making and improve the efficiency of decision makers (DMs). The purpose of this paper is to propose an innovative genetic algorithm for emergency decision ma...
The interaction between emerging adult psychological well-being and decision-making, in South Africa, has not been explicitly explored in Self-Determination Theory. Life goals have been thought to play a role in the interaction between basic psycholo...
Robust planning and decision making processes are essential to manage biosecurity risks, particularly in emergency response situations that are highly complex, often contentious and can change rapidly. Effective risk management involves analysing lar...
In recent years, different types of emergency events have taken place frequently around the world. Emergencies need to be addressed in the shortest possible time since inappropriate or delayed decisions may result in severe secondary disasters and ec...
Improvements in the emergency response efficiency and management level of power construction sites are conducive to reducing the construction safety risk of power infrastructure projects and then achieving the sustainability of construction site safe...
After an emergency event (EE) happens, emergency decision making (EDM) is a common and effective way to deal with the emergency situation, which plays an important role in mitigating its level of harm. In the real world, it is a big challenge for an...
29 January 2019
Self-confidence as one of the human psychological behaviors has important influence on emergency management decision making, which has been ignored in existing methods. To fill this gap, we dedicate to design a group decision making approach consider...
Disaster management minimizes potential harm and protects populations across four phases: preparedness, mitigation, response, and recovery. Diverse scientific approaches could be applied at each phase, among which Multi-Criteria Decision-Making (MCDM...
The infectious disease COVID-19 has swept across the world in 2020, and it continues to cause massive losses of life and severe economic problems in all countries. Providing emergency supplies such as protective medical equipment and materials requir...
25 May 2022
Shared decision making (SDM) about medicine with older poly-medicated patients is vital to improving adherence and preventing medication-related hospital admissions, but it is difficult to achieve in practice. This study’s primary aim was to pr...
Natural disasters and emergencies continue to increase in frequency and severity worldwide, necessitating robust emergency management (EM) systems and evaluation methodologies. This study addresses critical gaps in current emergency response capacity...
2 October 2017
In order to be prepared against potential balance-breaking risks affecting economic development, more and more countries have recognized emergency response solutions evaluation (ERSE) as an indispensable activity in their governance of sustainable de...
Endovascular aneurysm repair (EVAR) has become the preferred approach over open repair for abdominal aortic aneurysms (AAAs) due to its minimally invasive nature. The common femoral artery (CFA) is the main access vessel for EVAR, with both surgical...
Emergency evacuation simulation is significant for architectural design and emergency plan implementation. To explore the influence of evacuees’ physical behavior and evacuees’ decisions on the evacuation process, as well as to address th...
This review aims to map studies on governmental and institutional decision-making processes in emergencies. The literature reveals various approaches used by governments in managing emergencies. Consequently, this article suggests the need for a syst...
External mine fires are known for their unpredictability, rapid spread, and difficulty in terms of extinguishment, often resulting in severe casualties and property damage when not managed swiftly. This study examines the progression of coal mine fir...
In response to the limited available information during the initial stages of coal spontaneous combustion and the influence of decision makers’ risk preferences on decision-making, this paper proposes an emergency decision-making method for coa...
As a key measure for safety and environmental protection during offshore well operations, drill rigs are equipped with Emergency Quick Disconnect (EQD) systems. However, an EQD operation is in itself considered a risky operation with a major economic...
This study employs evolutionary game theory to analyze the tripartite interaction among government regulators, media publishers, and self-media participants in emergency public opinion management. We establish an evolutionary game model incorporating...
Humanitarian rescue has become an important part of government emergency management in China. In order to select the optimal humanitarian rescue scheme accurately and in a timely manner in an emergency, reduce the harm of disasters to human life and...
Introduction: We aimed to prove integration of advanced machine learning methods within a robust ensemble framework can enhance clinical decision-support for neurologists managing patients in the emergency department (ED). Methods: We engineered an e...
This paper draws on research conducted in the past two decades examining issues related to the human element in mine disasters. While much of the emergency response community employs a systems approach that takes into account psychosocial issues as t...
Construction 4.0 involves implementing advanced technologies in construction projects to achieve higher productivity, safety, and sustainability. However, architecture, engineering, and construction (AEC) professionals are reluctant to adopt Construc...
The delays and disruptions during the pandemic have awakened interest in the sustainability and resilience of production systems to emergencies. In that context, the deployment of smart technologies has emerged as an almost mandatory development orie...
Community paramedicine (CP) has extended the role of paramedics and the main goal is to provide non-emergency care, which reduces the visits to emergency departments. The aim of this study was to describe the Finnish CP and examine the factors that w...
We introduce the notion of the interval-valued linear Diophantine fuzzy set, which is a generalized fuzzy model for providing more accurate information, particularly in emergency decision-making, with the help of intervals of membership grades and no...
In the U.S., diagnostic errors are common across various healthcare settings due to factors like complex procedures and multiple healthcare providers, often exacerbated by inadequate initial evaluations. This study explores the role of Large Language...
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