Humanitarian and emergency management

Montero, Begoña & Rodríguez. “A Natural Disaster management DSS for Humanitarian NGO’S.”

Humanitarian Non-Governmental Organizations (NGOs) play a growing role in the response to natural disasters, but despite being largely demanded, there is no available decision support system (DSS) specifically designed to address their problem. In this paper it talks about a decision support system (DSS) to aid those Humanitarian NGOs concerned with the response to natural disasters. Such a DSS has been designed avoiding infrastructural requirements and constraints of emergency management by NGOs. A data-based, two-level knowledge methodology which allows damage assessment of multiple disaster. scenarios is presented in order to address that problem. Validation results show viability