11 results on '"Scott B. Miles"'
Search Results
2. Participatory Disaster Recovery Simulation Modeling for Community Resilience Planning
- Author
-
Scott B. Miles
- Subjects
Visual analytics ,Process management ,010504 meteorology & atmospheric sciences ,Computer science ,lcsh:Disasters and engineering ,Geography, Planning and Development ,0211 other engineering and technologies ,Stakeholder engagement ,02 engineering and technology ,Participatory modeling ,Management, Monitoring, Policy and Law ,01 natural sciences ,Disasters ,Recovery-based performance targets ,Performance measurement ,Disaster recovery ,0105 earth and related environmental sciences ,Sustainable development ,021110 strategic, defence & security studies ,Global and Planetary Change ,Community resilience ,Simulation modeling ,lcsh:TA495 ,Community resilience planning ,Safety Research - Abstract
A major challenge in enhancing the resilience of communities stems from current approaches used to identify needs and strategies that build the capacity of jurisdictions to mitigate loss and improve recovery. A new generation of resilience-based planning processes has emerged in the last several years that integrate goals of community well-being and identity into recovery-based performance measurement frameworks. Specific tools and refined guidance are needed to facilitate evidence-based development of recovery estimates. This article presents the participatory modeling process, a planning system designed to develop recovery-based resilience measurement frameworks for community resilience planning initiatives. Stakeholder engagement is infused throughout the participatory modeling process by integrating disaster recovery simulation modeling into community resilience planning. Within the process, participants get a unique opportunity to work together to deliberate on community concerns through facilitated participatory modeling. The participatory modeling platform combines the DESaster recovery simulation model and visual analytics interfaces. DESaster is an open source Python Library for creating discrete event simulations of disaster recovery. The simulation model was developed using a human-centered design approach whose goal is to be open, modular, and extensible. The process presented in this article is the first participatory modeling approach for analyzing recovery to aid creation of community resilience measurement frameworks.
- Published
- 2018
3. Integrating Performance-Based Engineering and Urban Simulation to Model Post-Earthquake Housing Recovery
- Author
-
Hua Kang, Henry V. Burton, and Scott B. Miles
- Subjects
Transport engineering ,021110 strategic, defence & security studies ,Geophysics ,Intervention measures ,Computer science ,Simulation modeling ,0211 other engineering and technologies ,020101 civil engineering ,02 engineering and technology ,Urban simulation ,Geotechnical Engineering and Engineering Geology ,0201 civil engineering - Abstract
The efficacy of various types of intervention measures intended to facilitate post-earthquake housing recovery can be evaluated ahead of time by using simulation models to quantify their benefits and tradeoffs. Towards this end, this paper presents a conceptual framework comprised of three components for modeling post-earthquake housing recovery. The modeling framework starts with a probabilistic assessment of building-level damage using recovery-based limit states that characterize post-earthquake functionality, inhabitability, and repairability. These limit states are the basis for the second component, which includes two different utility-based models for representing post-earthquake household decision making. Stochastic models to probabilistically quantify building-level recovery trajectories comprise the third and final component of the framework. Collectively, these alternative models can integrate the effect of building states, available resources, household decisions, and endogenous factors such as lifeline restoration. The modeling framework can be scaled to model spatiotemporal scenarios of housing recovery to inform jurisdictional-level policies, plans, and interventions to increase residential community resilience.
- Published
- 2018
4. Frontiers in Built Environment
- Author
-
Andrew Lyda, Kurtis R. Gurley, Michael J. Olsen, Troy Tanner, Michael J. Grilliot, Laura N. Lowes, Joseph Wartman, Ann Bostrom, Jennifer L. Irish, Scott B. Miles, Jaqueline Peltier, Jeffrey W. Berman, Jake Dafni, Center for Coastal Studies, and Civil and Environmental Engineering
- Subjects
Process management ,media_common.quotation_subject ,Geography, Planning and Development ,0211 other engineering and technologies ,020101 civil engineering ,02 engineering and technology ,natural hazard ,Field (computer science) ,0201 civil engineering ,lcsh:HT165.5-169.9 ,Natural hazard ,Instrumentation (computer programming) ,Adaptation (computer science) ,media_common ,instrumentation ,021110 strategic, defence & security studies ,Government ,Teamwork ,Community resilience ,Data collection ,reconnaissance ,Building and Construction ,lcsh:City planning ,simulation ,Urban Studies ,data ,lcsh:TA1-2040 ,disaster ,Business ,lcsh:Engineering (General). Civil engineering (General) ,Simulation - Abstract
Natural hazards and disaster reconnaissance investigations have provided many lessons for the research and practice communities and have greatly improved our scientific understanding of extreme events. Yet, many challenges remain for these communities, including improving our ability to model hazards, make decisions in the face of uncertainty, enhance community resilience, and mitigate risk. State-of-the-art instrumentation and mobile data collection applications have significantly advanced the ability of field investigation teams to capture quickly perishable data in post-disaster settings. The NHERI RAPID Facility convened a community workshop of experts in the professional, government, and academic sectors to determine reconnaissance data needs and opportunities, and to identify the broader challenges facing the reconnaissance community that hinder data collection and use. Participants highlighted that field teams face many practical and operational challenges before and during reconnaissance investigations, including logistics concerns, safety issues, emotional trauma, and after-returning, issues with data processing and analysis. Field teams have executed many effective missions. Among the factors contributing to successful reconnaissance are having local contacts, effective teamwork, and pre-event training. Continued progress in natural hazard reconnaissance requires adaptation of new, strategic approaches that acquire and integrate data over a range of temporal, spatial, and social scales across disciplines. U.S. National Science FoundationNational Science Foundation (NSF) [1611820] The U.S. National Science Foundation supported this work under grant number 1611820. Any opinions, findings, and conclusions or recommendations expressed in this material are those of the authors and do not necessarily reflect the views of the National Science Foundation.
- Published
- 2020
5. Infrastructure Recovery Curve Estimation Using Gaussian Process Regression on Expert Elicited Data
- Author
-
Youngjun Choe, Quoc Dung Cao, and Scott B. Miles
- Subjects
FOS: Computer and information sciences ,021110 strategic, defence & security studies ,Community resilience ,Data collection ,Operations research ,Computer science ,Process (engineering) ,0211 other engineering and technologies ,Expert elicitation ,Context (language use) ,02 engineering and technology ,010502 geochemistry & geophysics ,01 natural sciences ,Industrial and Manufacturing Engineering ,Methodology (stat.ME) ,Kriging ,NIST ,Safety, Risk, Reliability and Quality ,Resilience (network) ,Statistics - Methodology ,0105 earth and related environmental sciences - Abstract
The U.S. National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST)’s Community Resilience Planning Guide uses recovery times of infrastructure functions as key metrics for disaster resilience. The existing literature also widely uses the recovery curve and the area under it to measure infrastructure resilience. Therefore, infrastructure recovery curve estimation is critical to understanding and improving disaster resilience. Unfortunately, this process is challenging in the pre-event planning context due to lack of historical data. To bridge this gap, we consider a situation where infrastructure experts are asked to estimate the time for different infrastructure systems to recover to certain functionality levels after a scenario hazard event. We propose a methodological framework to use expert-elicited data to estimate the expected recovery time curve of a particular infrastructure system. This framework uses the Gaussian process regression (GPR) to capture the experts’ estimation-uncertainty and satisfy known physical constraints of recovery processes. The framework is designed to find a balance between the data collection cost of expert elicitation and the prediction accuracy of GPR. We evaluate the framework on simulated expert-elicited data concerning two case study events, the 1995 Great Hanshin-Awaji Earthquake and the 2011 Great East Japan Earthquake. It is shown that the framework is robust against different configurations such as the number of experts, how the quantities of interest are elicited, and uncertainty in the experts’ estimates.
- Published
- 2020
6. Community of Practice for Modeling Disaster Recovery
- Author
-
Henry V. Burton, Hua Kang, and Scott B. Miles
- Subjects
021110 strategic, defence & security studies ,010504 meteorology & atmospheric sciences ,0211 other engineering and technologies ,General Social Sciences ,Disaster recovery ,02 engineering and technology ,Building and Construction ,01 natural sciences ,Hazard ,Community of practice ,Data_FILES ,Business ,Environmental planning ,0105 earth and related environmental sciences ,General Environmental Science ,Civil and Structural Engineering - Abstract
The goal of this paper is to facilitate a community of practice for disaster recovery modeling. This community should include hazard and disaster researchers without modeling experience and...
- Published
- 2019
7. Natural Language Processing for Analyzing Disaster Recovery Trends Expressed in Large Text Corpora
- Author
-
Lucy H. Lin, Noah A. Smith, and Scott B. Miles
- Subjects
Text corpus ,021110 strategic, defence & security studies ,Syntax (programming languages) ,Computer science ,business.industry ,Process (engineering) ,InformationSystems_INFORMATIONSTORAGEANDRETRIEVAL ,0211 other engineering and technologies ,Disaster research ,Disaster recovery ,02 engineering and technology ,010501 environmental sciences ,computer.software_genre ,Semantics ,01 natural sciences ,Embodied cognition ,Artificial intelligence ,business ,computer ,Natural language processing ,0105 earth and related environmental sciences ,Semantic matching - Abstract
We are developing a new natural language processing (NLP) method to facilitate analysis of text corpora that describe long-term recovery. The aim of the method is to allow users to measure the degree that user-specified propositions about potential issues are embodied within the corpora, serving as a proxy for the disaster recovery process. The presented method employs a statistical syntax-based semantic matching model and was trained on a standard, publicly available training dataset. We applied the NLP method to a news story corpus that describes the recovery of Christchurch, New Zealand after the 2010–2011 Canterbury earthquake sequence. We used the model to compute semantic measurements of multiple potential recovery issues as expressed in the Christchurch news corpus that span 2011 to 2016. We evaluated method outputs through a user study involving twenty professional emergency managers. User study results show that the model can be effective when applied to a disaster-related news corpus. 85% of study participants were interested in a way to measure recovery issue propositions in news or other corpora. We are encouraged by the potential for future applications of our NLP method for after-action learning, recovery decision making, and disaster research.
- Published
- 2018
8. Toward Human-Centered Simulation Modeling for Critical Infrastructure Disaster Recovery Planning
- Author
-
Scott B. Miles and Abbas Ganji
- Subjects
021110 strategic, defence & security studies ,010504 meteorology & atmospheric sciences ,Emergency management ,business.industry ,Computer science ,Simulation modeling ,0211 other engineering and technologies ,Disaster recovery ,Usability ,02 engineering and technology ,01 natural sciences ,Critical infrastructure ,Task (project management) ,Risk analysis (engineering) ,Conceptual design ,business ,Resilience (network) ,0105 earth and related environmental sciences - Abstract
Critical infrastructure is vulnerable to a broad range of hazards. Timely and effective recovery of critical infrastructure after extreme events is crucial. However, critical infrastructure disaster recovery planning is complicated and involves both domain-and user-centered characteristics and complexities. Recovery planning currently uses few quantitative computer-based tools and instead largely relies on expert judgment. Simulation modeling can simplify domain-centered complexities but not the human factors. Conversely, human-centered design places end-users at the center of design. We discuss the benefits of combining simulation modeling with human-centered design and refer it as human-centered simulation modeling. Human-centered simulation modeling has the capability to make recovery planning simpler and more understandable for critical infrastructure and emergency management experts and other recovery planning decision-makers. We qualitatively analyzed several resilience planning initiatives, post-disaster recovery assessments, and relevant journal articles to understand experts and decision-makers' perspectives. We propose a conceptual design framework for creating human-centered simulation models for critical infrastructure disaster recovery planning. This framework consists of three constructs: 1) user interaction with design features that end-users interact with, including model parameters assignment, decision-making support, task queries, and usability; 2) system representation that refers to system components, system interactions, and system state variables; and 3) computation core that represents computational methods required to perform processes.
- Published
- 2018
9. Foundations of community disaster resilience: well-being, identity, services, and capitals
- Author
-
Scott B. Miles
- Subjects
Knowledge management ,010504 meteorology & atmospheric sciences ,Sociology and Political Science ,Community organization ,media_common.quotation_subject ,Geography, Planning and Development ,0211 other engineering and technologies ,Identity (social science) ,02 engineering and technology ,Development ,01 natural sciences ,Empirical research ,Human settlement ,Sociology ,Social science ,Empirical evidence ,0105 earth and related environmental sciences ,General Environmental Science ,media_common ,021110 strategic, defence & security studies ,Global and Planetary Change ,business.industry ,Interpretation (philosophy) ,Well-being ,Psychological resilience ,business - Abstract
If community disaster resilience is to mature into a robust and lasting area of research, methodologically facilitated dialogue between empirical observations and theory is necessary. However, methodological and empirical research has outpaced community disaster resilience theory. To address this gap, a theoretical framework called WISC is presented. WISC is named after four constructs of the framework: well-being, identity, services, and capitals. WISC relates the two concepts of community and infrastructure, broadly defined, to the four constructs it is named after. The 4 constructs are respectively defined by 29 variables. The broadest interpretation of WISC is that infrastructure supports and facilitates components of community within human settlements. Infrastructure is represented as combinations of capitals and services; community is represented by connections of identity and well-being. Ultimately, well-being of a community is dependent on that community's collective capital. But these two constru...
- Published
- 2015
10. A framework and case study for integrating household decision-making into post-earthquake recovery models
- Author
-
Hua Kang, Ali Nejat, Scott B. Miles, Henry V. Burton, and Zhengxiang Yi
- Subjects
021110 strategic, defence & security studies ,010504 meteorology & atmospheric sciences ,Occupancy ,0211 other engineering and technologies ,Geology ,02 engineering and technology ,Geotechnical Engineering and Engineering Geology ,01 natural sciences ,Earthquake insurance ,Empirical research ,Econometrics ,Economics ,Household income ,Residence ,Duration (project management) ,Safety Research ,Decision model ,0105 earth and related environmental sciences ,Multinomial logistic regression - Abstract
Prior empirical research has demonstrated that the decisions of affected populations can significantly influence housing recovery outcomes following a natural hazard event. The current study seeks to develop an integrated post-earthquake recovery model that explicitly accounts for household decision-making. An empirical probabilistic utility-based decision model is developed using data from a survey of Los Angeles households. The results from a multinomial logistic regression showed that the time in residence, neighborhood evacuation level, physical damage to residence, duration of utility disruption and loss of access to the building, household income and earthquake insurance coverage had a statistically significant association with homeowners’ decisions. For renter decision-making, only physical damage to the residence and duration of utility disruption are found to be statistically significant. In addition to household decision-making, the integrated model incorporates probabilistic building performance assessment and a discrete-state stochastic process representation of post-earthquake housing recovery. The results from a case study incorporating three Los Angeles neighborhoods (Koreatown, East Hollywood and Lomita) show that the influence of household decision-making on occupancy-based recovery trajectories is amplified as the scale of damage increases.
- Published
- 2019
11. Using discrete event simulation to build a housing recovery simulation model for the 2015 Nepal earthquake
- Author
-
Meg Longman and Scott B. Miles
- Subjects
021110 strategic, defence & security studies ,HAZUS ,010504 meteorology & atmospheric sciences ,Emergency management ,business.industry ,Computer science ,Simulation modeling ,0211 other engineering and technologies ,Disaster recovery ,Geology ,02 engineering and technology ,Geotechnical Engineering and Engineering Geology ,01 natural sciences ,Resource (project management) ,Risk analysis (engineering) ,Agency (sociology) ,Data_FILES ,Discrete event simulation ,business ,Safety Research ,Programming library ,0105 earth and related environmental sciences - Abstract
Models of hazards and disasters are increasingly used to help to develop disaster-related policies and plans. Unfortunately, readily available modelling tools, such as the U.S. Federal Emergency Management Agency's Hazus model provide inadequate representation of housing recovery. Most disaster-related housing models are focused on the immediate impacts of earthquakes in terms of physical damage and economic losses. This paper introduces a new simulation modelling programming library called DESaster (discrete event simulation of disaster recovery) for building disaster recovery simulation models, which currently focuses exclusively on housing recovery. A brief overview of DESaster is provided prior to describing its application to model housing recovery after the 2015 Nepal earthquake. The DESaster library was found to be flexible enough to construct a specific model of housing recovery in Nepal. More specifically, it was found to be particularly useful for better understanding resource needs, such as construction materials and skilled labourers, through comparison of different allocation scenarios.
- Published
- 2019
Catalog
Discovery Service for Jio Institute Digital Library
For full access to our library's resources, please sign in.