The Importance of Spatial-temporal Issues for Case-based Reasoning in Disaster Management

摘要

A disaster brings huge damages to both infrastructureand human beings. The rapid and efficient disaster managementis critical for reducing the negative effects by the disasters. Awidely accepted approach to assist disaster management is to findand learn the experiences from the similar cases in history. Thus, to record the whole procedure of each disaster, a digital disastercase structure is offered in this paper. The importance of spatialand temporal information for a digital disaster case is focused through the experiences of disaster management. Then asimplified case based reasoning method with the considering of spatial-temporal information is proposed. Comparing with thetraditional cased based reasoning methods, it is simple to use andcan handle the attributes with basic geospatial dimensions. Theproposed method can be integrated to the widely constructedemergency platform as a part of functions of the disaster caserepository for assisting the disaster management.