SCC-CIVIC-FA Track B Convergence, Inventory, Matching, and Assignment (CIMA) to Optimize Post-event Housing Repair for Displaced Vulnerable Populations

SCC-CIVIC-FA Track B 融合、库存、匹配和分配 (CIMA)，以优化流离失所的弱势群体的事后住房修复

• 批准号: 2133336
• 负责人: Joshua Behr
• 金额: $ 100万
• 依托单位: Old Dominion University Research Foundation
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 项目类别: Standard Grant
• 财政年份: 2021
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2021-10-01 至 2024-09-30
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=2133336&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: SCC; CIVIC; FA; Track; Convergence

Severe weather events have the potential to inflict wide-spread structural damage to homes, resulting in population displacement. Displaced households suffer enormously. The length of time between initial displacement and returning, once again, to stable housing varies greatly across populations, with low-to-moderate income households and medically fragile households tending to have lengthy displacements. Following an event, volunteer labor and donated materials flow into the impacted region. However, the matching of supply (donated materials and volunteer labor) with the need for repair among particularly vulnerable households is less than optimal. It is essential to more-optimally match supply with the need so that lengthy displacement times common among vulnerable households will be meaningfully reduced, thus addressing fundamental inequities in recovery and wellbeing. This project will develop, pilot, and field the Convergence, Inventory, Matching, and Assignment (CIMA) platform to provide this needed capability. CIMA, when used by nonprofit recovery organizations, will increase efficiency in matching supply with need and promises to meaningfully decrease displacement times among vulnerable households. The project will have multiple societal impacts. It will (a) lessen disparities in displacement times and, by extension, lessen longer-term disparities in health and wellbeing; (b) advance equity and justice issues in recovery; (c) partner with underserved communities; and (d) support the training of graduate students inclusive of racial and ethnic minorities and females.This project will progress through high-level conceptual, implementation, and execution stages. More precisely, the CIMA architecture is a decentralized, stateless system conforming with Representational State Transfer (REST) in the creation of the underlying client/server protocols and Application Programmer Interfaces (APIs). The CIMA development and fielding processes shall (a) advance research in optimization and scheduling algorithms; (b) improve user experience interfaces consistent with user needs and expectations; (c) perform internal and external validation; and (d) stress test CIMA against common storm assumptions as well as outlier scenarios.This project is part of the joint CIVIC Innovation Challenge program which includes Department of Energy Vehicle Technology Office, Department of Homeland Security Science and Technology Directorate, Federal Emergency Management Agency, and the National Science Foundation.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.

恶劣天气事件有可能对房屋造成广泛的结构性破坏，导致人口流离失所。流离失所的家庭遭受巨大痛苦。从最初流离失所到再次返回稳定住房的时间长短因人口而异，中低收入家庭和身体虚弱的家庭往往流离失所时间较长。事件发生后，志愿者劳动力和捐赠物资流入受影响地区。然而，供应（捐赠的物资和志愿劳动力）与特别脆弱家庭的维修需求之间的匹配并非最佳。至关重要的是，要更好地使供应与需求相匹配，以便切实减少弱势家庭中常见的长期流离失所时间，从而解决恢复和福祉方面的根本不平等问题。 该项目将开发，试点和领域的融合，库存，匹配和分配（CIMA）平台，以提供这一所需的能力。当非营利恢复组织使用CIMA时，它将提高供应与需求匹配的效率，并有望有意义地减少弱势家庭的流离失所时间。该项目将产生多重社会影响。该项目将（a）减少流离失所时间的差异，进而减少健康和福祉方面的长期差异;（B）促进恢复过程中的公平和正义问题;（c）与得不到充分服务的社区合作;（d）支持培训研究生，包括少数种族和族裔以及女性，该项目将通过高级别的概念、实施和执行阶段取得进展。更准确地说，CIMA架构是一个去中心化、无状态系统，在创建底层客户端/服务器协议和应用程序编程接口（API）时符合代表性状态传输（REST）。CIMA开发和部署过程应（a）推进优化和调度算法的研究;（B）改进用户体验界面，使其符合用户需求和期望;（c）进行内部和外部验证;以及（d）针对常见风暴假设和异常值情景对CIMA进行压力测试。该项目是CIVIC联合创新挑战计划的一部分，该计划包括能源部汽车技术该奖项反映了NSF的法定使命，并通过使用基金会的知识价值和更广泛的影响审查标准进行评估，被认为值得支持。