Studying Communications Resiliency in Emergency Plans

Recent disasters have shown that hazards can be unpredictable and can have catastrophic consequences. Emergency plans are key to dealing with these situations and communications play a key role in emergency management. In this paper, we provide a formalism to design resilient emergency plans in terms of communications. We exemplify how to use the formalism using a case study of a Nuclear Emergency Plan.

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