I-Corps: A web-based simulator of an emergency operations center

应急行动中心（EOC）是一个安全的场所，上层应急管理人员聚集在这里准备、管理和协调应对紧急情况（例如飓风、地震、流行病或爆发、海啸）的准备和恢复活动。虽然面对面的训练是训练的黄金标准，但由于时间和成本的原因，这种面对面训练事件的频率是有限的。I-Corps小组开发了一个模拟器，使应急管理人员能够在虚拟的分布式环境中更有效、更频繁地进行培训。拟议的技术将有助于更好地培训应急管理人员，从而可能挽救生命并减少财产损失。通过先进的技术培训，应急管理人员可以以更低的成本进行更频繁的培训。当灾难发生时，应急人员会建立一个称为事件指挥系统（ICS）的管理结构来管理事件。ICS中的人员必须收集信息，并在各个组织之间以及与地方、州和联邦机构之间进行协调。这些都是复杂的任务，需要进行培训，以确保所有参与者及其组织熟悉当前的计划、政策、协议和程序。此类培训通常通过一系列面对面的方式进行，包括基于讨论的桌面演习和基于全面操作的演习，模拟所有负责组织充分参与的特定事件。所提出的模拟器SimEOC可以模拟紧急事件和所有参与组织的分布式网络参与。一个集中的网络服务器将为100多名学员提供培训服务。在I-Corps浸入式课程结束时，现有的研究原型（alpha版本）可用于“实时代码”概念验证演示；乐观地说，目前正在开发的重新设计的企业质量版本（beta版本）也可以预览。

An Emergency Operations Center (EOC) is a secure location in which upper level emergency managers gather together to prepare for, manage, and coordinate preparation and recovery activities in response to an emergency situation (e.g. hurricane, earthquake, epidemic or outbreak, tsunami). While in-person exercises are the gold standard for training, because of time and cost the frequency of such in-person training events is limited. The I-Corps team has developed a simulator that will enable emergency managers to train more effectively and more frequently in a virtual, distributed environment. The proposed technology will enable better training of emergency managers, potentially resulting in lives saved and reduction of property loss. Through advanced technological training, emergency managers, can train more often, for less cost.When a disaster occurs, emergency personnel set up a management structure called an Incident Command System (ICS) to manage the incident. The personnel in the ICS have to gather information and coordinate among various organizations and across jurisdictions with local, state, and federal agencies. These are complex tasks that require training to ensure that all participants and their organizations are familiar with current plans, policies, agreements and procedures. Such training is typically performed by a range of in-person approaches, including discussion-based tabletop exercises and full-scale operations-based exercises simulating a specific incident with full participation of all responsible organizations. The proposed simulator,SimEOC, can simulate the emergency incident and the distributed web-based participation of all the participating organizations. A centralized web-server will support over 100 trainees in such a training exercise. At the end of the I-Corps immersion curriculum the existing research prototype (alpha version) could be used for a "live-code" proof-of-concept demonstration; optimistically the re-engineered enterprise quality version under current development (beta version) may be ready to preview as well.