1. UEE Seminar Series mHARP: Open Source Consortium for
Distinguished Speakers’
Hosted by School of Urban & Environmental Engineering
mHARP: Open Source Consortium for
Hazard Risk Assessment System
Speaker : Jong Sung Lee
Senior Research Scientist
National Center for Supercomputing Applications (NCSA)
University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Abstract
Effective risk mitigation and post-disaster recovery depends upon the efficient allocation of oftentimes scarce resources through good decision-making. Therefore, the need for decision support tools to inform and support, among others, decisions on damage assessment, recovery and resilience enhancement of impacted infrastructures, and mitigation/reconstruction strategy is growing. This presentation presents the idea of an open source solution for consequence based decision-making tools/systems to be developed by, and to be made available worldwide to stakeholders involved in natural hazard risk mitigation and management processes. To reach this goal, the Multi-Hazard Assessment, Response, and Planning (mHARP) global, open source consortium was established with members from multiple countries. The activities of the mHARP Consortium, summarized in the presentation, include: 1) the further development of existing open-source modeling tools (e.g. MAEviz, EQvis, etc.) along with the necessary IT framework and infrastructure to support them; 2) the development of additional applications and modules that plug into the existing framework to address specific aspects of risk assessment and mitigation, post-disaster response and recovery for multiple-hazards; 3) desired strategic partnership and collaboration with other, appropriate initiatives worldwide (e.g. GEM, RiskScape, CAPRA, etc.).
Date & Time : 4:30 pm, Oct. 24, 2013 (Thu.)
Location : 811 EB2
Contact : Prof. Gi-Hyoug Cho(2818)