INTEGRATED EARTHQUAKE DISASTER SIMULATION SYSTEMSFOR THE HIGHLY-NETWORKED INFORMATION SOCIETY

摘要

In 2002 the Ministry of Education, Culture, Sports, Science and Technology of the Japanese Governmentstarted assigned project to mobilize leading-edge information technologies to develop the secondgeneration information system for earthquake disaster simulation and mitigation management, which iscalled as the Integrated Earthquake Disaster Simulation Systems. The realized simulation system is anintegration of computer science, database technology and earthquake engineering. It is developed to below cost and highly functional, and has features to seamlessly comprise daily operations and disaster reliefoperations in a municipal government. Key components of the system are the large-scale distributedsimulation, the risk-adaptive regional management information technology using the Spatial-TemporalGIS, the multi-agent model simulators for emergency and recovery actions, and the damage and disasterprogression simulators concerning urban residents and structures. This system shares its database withdaily management system to avoid the annoying database maintenance and utilizes the PC of dailyoperations to achieve low cost and user-friendliness at the same time. The authors are involving in thisdevelopment, which will continue until 2007. This paper presents the realized system and the prospectivegoal in detail.