A Knowledge-Based System For Disaster Emergency Relief

Natural disasters have had great impact on human beings. Emergency relief is becoming more important with the increase of the frequency and scale of humanitarian emergencies resulting from more natural disasters because of climate change. In this paper, an interesting hybrid knowledge representation method during the development of a KBS for design of emergency relief structures is presented. It encapsulates ill-structured, semi-structured and structured knowledge that is gathered from literature, human expert and even knowledge gleaned during the system development. All routine as well as cumbrous activities in the emergency relief cycle are covered. The system can provide the user with advice on preliminary plan evaluation, plan optimization, plan evaluation, plan summary and miscellaneous. It would be beneficial to the field of disaster emergency relief decision by focusing on the acquisition and organization of expert knowledge through the development of knowledge-based system.