EMSSim: Emergency medical service simulator with geographic and medical details

Il Chul Moon, Jang Won Bae, Junseok Lee, Doyun Kim, Hyunrok Lee, Taesik Lee, Won Chul Cha, Ju Hyun Kim, Gi Woon Kim

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Abstract

This paper introduces EMSSim that is an agent-based simulation of emergency medical services during disasters. We developed EMSSim to encompass the disaster victims' pass-ways from their rescues to their definitive care. This modeling scope resulted that our model delivers the detailed geographical and medical modeling which are often modeled separately. This is an effort to fill the gap between the pre-hospital delivery and the in-hospital care over the disaster period. We specified the model with a variant of the dynamic DEVS formalism so that the complex models could be better understood and utilized by others. Also, we suggest a modeling approach to create a profile with mathematical modeling on the victims' survival rates, which would enable our models to simulate the effectiveness of the treatments by the responders. Finally, we provide a case study of virtual experiments that analyzes the sensitivity of rescue performances by varying the disaster response resources.

Original languageEnglish
Title of host publication2015 Winter Simulation Conference, WSC 2015
PublisherInstitute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers Inc.
Pages1272-1284
Number of pages13
ISBN (Electronic)9781467397438
DOIs
StatePublished - 16 Feb 2016
EventWinter Simulation Conference, WSC 2015 - Huntington Beach, United States
Duration: 6 Dec 20159 Dec 2015

Publication series

NameProceedings - Winter Simulation Conference
Volume2016-February
ISSN (Print)0891-7736

Conference

ConferenceWinter Simulation Conference, WSC 2015
Country/TerritoryUnited States
CityHuntington Beach
Period6/12/159/12/15

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