COMPUTER AIDED TRAINING FOR COOPERATING EMERGENCY MANAGERS: SOME RESULTS OF MUSTER PROJECT

The paper presents italian results of the CEC Environment Project MUSTER (Multi-Users System for Training and Evaluating Environmental Emergency Response). A novel conceptualization framework for the computer aided training of cooperating and coordinated emergency managers is discussed. Two basic functions of the computer support system have been defined: a simulation of an emergency environment and the activity of emergency organization., a support to the instructor functions. The trainee model is based on the functional architecture of an abstract intelligent agent. An application of the concept of intelligent agent enables to represent the cooperation between emergency managers in multi-agent system, and to analyse causes of their errorneuss decisions. The architecture of the prototype system is described. A concrete example of its applications is referred to the benchmark represented the emergency state and its evolution at the Genoa Oil Port, caused by an explosion and firing of an oil tanker.