Web-based micro-world simulation for emergency management training

Abstract Micro-world simulation and exercise monitoring will have an important role in future group distance exercise (GDE) systems. Micro-world simulations can be used for training basic co-ordination and collaborative work in emergency management and command-and-control situations. An important design task when developing distributed interactive simulation systems for GDE is to define a proper monitoring functionality that will help the training managers to evaluate the exercises. In our research, we have developed C 3 Fire, a web-based distributed interactive simulation system. This paper presents results from using the C 3 Fire micro-world and our work on exercise monitoring.