Formal specification of humanitarian disaster management processes

Disaster situations are dynamic and demanding a change in response, and information is received in a fragmented manner during the early stages of the event. Therefore, a Rapid Assessment and Intervention Team (RAIT Team) is established to respond quickly to the event, by achieving an initial assessment helping to understand the nature and scope of the incident and to determine the required assistance. The RAIT Team can be considered as a Reactive Collaborative Network, having to coordinate numerous actors and two or more reactive parallel sub-processes. Therefore, formal specification and validation methods and tools are needed while specifying and verifying RAIT processes to detect and correct deficiencies and faults In this perspective, the present paper proposes to use the Decisional Reactive Agents (DRA) based approach for the formal modeling and checking of RAIT system processes, so that they can be directly implemented in software environments with the maximum of logical correctness. The proposed approach is illustrated by formally checking temporal constraints of a transversal RAIT process acting in case of medical or humanitarian emergency.