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This EMPROV project is a research project supported by U.S. NSF (National Science Foundation) CAREER grant (grant number: 0449582). It consists of integrated research and education programs designed to improve how society understands, plans for and supports improvisation in response to extreme events.
David Mendonca is the PI of EMPROV project. This work builds upon his prior research on modeling and supporting improvised decision making, which was conducted at the Federal Emergency Management Agency's National Fire Academy and at the Port of Rotterdam, The Netherlands. It also incorporates the results of his investigations into decision making following the 2001 World Trade Center attack (supported by NSF grant CMS-0139306) and complements his current research on decision technologies for the management of critical infrastructures (supported by NSF grant CMS- 0301661).
A key to successful planning and effective response in extreme events such as natural or technological disasters is flexibility. One approach to achieving flexibility is improvisation: a combined behavioral and cognitive activity that requires creativity under tight time constraint in order to meet performance objectives.
The first goal of the research program is to produce cognitive-level theory about improvised decision making, derived from a combination of archival research, experimentation and interaction with practitioners. The theory will be expressed in computer-executable form and evaluated via experimentation with emergency response practitioners. The second goal is to integrate the computable theory into a prototype group decision support system, whose impact on decision making will be evaluated via experimentation in a computer-based environment.
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