Multi-Signal Cooperative Decision for Emergency Management Inspired by Immune System

Various disasters with serious results are reported and happen around our lives. Most of them are unconventional contingency events that are difficult to be detected and discriminated. Emergency management is an important activity dealing with the contingent events. For the uncertainty, imperfect, stochastic, fuzzy and disturbed environments and the unrecognized characteristics of the events, it is hard to make the urgent decision in the context of emergency management. Inspired by the higher efficiency and special structure of immune system dealing with the pathogens, a multi-signal decision model is proposed to model the decision process in emergency management. A series of decision models and flow are designed to consider the context of emergency management. A framework of decision support system is designed to incorporate the multi-signal decision model for practical emergency management. However, in the model and the framework, some valuable directions are raised and are being studied under the way.