METAMODEL-BASED DECISION SUPPORT SYSTEM FOR DISASTER MANAGEMENT

Siti Hajar Othman, Ghassan Beydoun

2010

Abstract

Generally software model developers use a general purpose language such as Unified Modelling Language (UML) in modelling their domain application models. But when they come to the situation in which the models they create do not perfectly fit the modelling needs as they desire, a more specific domain modelling language offers a better alternative approach. In this paper, we create a Disaster Management (DM) metamodel that can be used to create a disaster management language. It will serve as a representational layer of DM expertise leading to a DM decision support system based on combining and matching different DM activities according to the disaster on hand. A creation process of the metamodel is presented leading to the synthesis of initial metamodel, as a main component to create a decision support system to unify, facilitate and expedite access to DM expertise.

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Hajar Othman S. and Beydoun G. (2010). METAMODEL-BASED DECISION SUPPORT SYSTEM FOR DISASTER MANAGEMENT . In Proceedings of the 5th International Conference on Software and Data Technologies - Volume 2: ICSOFT, ISBN 978-989-8425-23-2, pages 403-412. DOI: 10.5220/0003006504030412


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@conference{icsoft10,
author={Siti Hajar Othman and Ghassan Beydoun},
title={METAMODEL-BASED DECISION SUPPORT SYSTEM FOR DISASTER MANAGEMENT},
booktitle={Proceedings of the 5th International Conference on Software and Data Technologies - Volume 2: ICSOFT,},
year={2010},
pages={403-412},
publisher={SciTePress},
organization={INSTICC},
doi={10.5220/0003006504030412},
isbn={978-989-8425-23-2},
}


in EndNote Style

TY - CONF
JO - Proceedings of the 5th International Conference on Software and Data Technologies - Volume 2: ICSOFT,
TI - METAMODEL-BASED DECISION SUPPORT SYSTEM FOR DISASTER MANAGEMENT
SN - 978-989-8425-23-2
AU - Hajar Othman S.
AU - Beydoun G.
PY - 2010
SP - 403
EP - 412
DO - 10.5220/0003006504030412