EAGER: Operations and Systems Engineering Extreme Events Research (OSEER)

这一探索性研究早期概念补助金奖将支持建立一个业务研究人员网络和一项科学计划，以应对灾害和灾害研究中的交叉方法挑战。在灾害和灾害的背景下进行决策的一个长期挑战是，需要在有时具有极大不确定性和风险的动态条件下提供规范性(决策)指导。应对这些挑战需要重新重视确定现有学科和跨学科方法所要解决的超越现有学科和跨学科方法界限的潜在高影响研究问题。对于在更广泛的政策和社会背景下涉及人机系统和与灾害有关的现象之间大规模、有时是持续的互动的问题，情况尤其如此。该项目将建立业务和系统工程极端事件研究(OSEEER)网络，旨在汇集传统和非传统的专业知识来源，以实现三个主要目标：第一，建立和维持一个在以业务工程为中心的领域内和跨业务工程领域工作的研究人员、合作者和其他附属机构的网络；第二，通过讲习班和早期研究活动促进这一网络，以确定在灾害和灾害领域领域内影响大、方法上具有挑战性的问题；第三，开发出版物和其他产出，建立初步研究结果和未来工作议程，以应对新出现的挑战，有助于社会减轻、应对和学习灾害和灾害的能力。这一奖项反映了NSF的法定使命，并通过使用基金会的智力优势和更广泛的影响审查标准进行评估，被认为值得支持。

This EArly-concept Grant for Exploratory Research (EAGER) award will support the establishment of a network of operations researchers and a science plan to address cross-cutting methodological challenges in hazards and disaster research. An abiding challenge for decision making in the context of hazards and disasters derives from the need to provide prescriptive (decisional) guidance under dynamic conditions of sometimes profound uncertainty and risk. Addressing these challenge requires a renewed focus on identifying potentially high-impact research problems that lie beyond the boundary of existing disciplinary and interdisciplinary methods to address. This is particularly true for problems that involve large-scale, sometimes sustained interaction between human-machine systems and hazard-related phenomena within a broader policy and social context. This project will establish the Operations and Systems Engineering Extreme Event Research (OSEEER) network, designed to marshal both traditional and non-traditional sources of expertise in order to accomplish three main objectives: first, to create and sustain a network of researchers, collaborators and other affiliates working within and across operations engineering-centered areas; second, to stimulate this network through workshops and early-stage research activities in order to define high-impact, methodologically challenging problems in the field in the domain of hazards and disasters; and third, to develop publications and other outputs that establish preliminary research results and an agenda for future work to address emerging challenges that will contribute to society's ability to mitigate, respond to and learn from hazards and disasters.This award reflects NSF's statutory mission and has been deemed worthy of support through evaluation using the Foundation's intellectual merit and broader impacts review criteria.