Collaborative Research: II-NEW: Ensayo - A Virtual Emergency Operations Center (vEOC)

这个拟议的项目将设计、开发、部署和运营一个虚拟应急行动中心(VEOC)，主要用于(1)作为研究工具，但(2)用于培训和教育。VEOC名为Ensayo，将能够在角色和组织结构的背景下对动态决策、个人和群体问题解决、组织学习、沟通、协调和知识管理进行研究，以实现对灾害的跨机构管理。VEOC将使用开放源码和开放标准软件和工具在网上实施。对大规模的、新兴的管理结构进行的实质性研究很少。这些新出现的结构的大小和复杂性为研究操作机制(包括成功和不成功的)提供了独特的见解，为制定VEOC的组成部分提供了有效的底物。我们的初步研究已对VEOC在这方面以及在其他EOC背景下所扮演的角色有了深入的认识。Ensayo的基本目标是制定一种研究工具，尽管该工具基于本地EOC的元素，但可以调整以反映各种EOC形式，以支持研究、培训和教育。其中一个合作机构是少数群体服务机构，这项工作的主要背景对社会福祉是重要的吗？飓风和应急准备。Ensayo不仅为学术界提供了一种研究工具，而且为从事任何紧急行动活动的同业群体提供了教育、培训和政策分析的资源。

This proposed project will design, develop, deploy, and operate a virtual Emergency Operations Center (vEOC) for (1) primary use as a research instrument, but with (2) secondary use for training and education. The vEOC, named Ensayo, will enable research on dynamic decision-making, individual and group problem solving, organizational learning, communication, coordination, and knowledge management in the context of roles and organizational structures to enable cross-institutional management of disasters. The vEOC will be web-based implemented using open source and open standards software and tools. Little substantive research has been conducted on large scale, emergent management structures. The size and complexity of these emergent structures affords a unique insight into studying the mechanisms (both successful and less successful) of operation, providing a valid substrate to formulate the components of the vEOC. Our initial research has yielded insights into the role that a vEOC could play in this, and other EOC contexts The fundamental goal of Ensayo is to craft a research instrument that, although based on the elements of a local EOC, can be adapted to reflect a wide variety of EOC forms in order to support research, training and education. One of the collaborating institutions is minority serving, and located where the primary context for this work is important for the well-being of society ? hurricanes and emergency preparedness. Ensayo affords not only a research tool for academics, but also a resource for education, training and policy analysis for communities of practice who engage in any emergency operations event.