Abstract This study explored automated training for emergency managers, and the effects of feedback on performance and preferences. To explore the effects of training procedures, a prototype emergency management training application was built to allow the usage of either immediate feedback or hot wash feedback. Users were split into two groups and asked to run through two emergency management scenarios using one of the feedback mechanisms, and the difference in scores between each feedback were...

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The collection consists of theses written by students enrolled in the Monmouth University graduate Software Engineering program. The holdings are bound print documents that were submitted in partial fulfillment of requirements for the Master of Science degree.

Abstract This thesis presents a web-based enactment tool for workflows built using a WIFA tool or a resource-constrained WIFA tool. WIFA is an intutiive yet formal workflow formalism introduced to satisfy the workflow management needs of incident command systems. Resource-constrained WIFA extends WIFA by taking resources into account when modeling and enacting workflows. The existing stand-alone tools developed by WIFA or resource-constrained WIFA are good for workflow editing and verification....

Abstract The dyanamic nature of incident command systems and their requirement for high flexibility raise a challenge to the research and implementation of workflows. The signficance of applying formal approaches to the modeling and analysis of workflows has been well recognized and several such approaches have been proposed. However, these approaches require users to master considerable knowledge of the particular formalisms, which impacts their application on a larger scale. To address these...