Exploratory Review on Decision Support System for Disaster Management

Disaster is a natural catastrophe that causes a huge amount of property damage and loss of life and leads to the collapse of societal order and economy despair. Therefore, disaster management techniques are used to prevent catastrophic events from causing more harm to the economy and infrastructure. Governments from around the world also employ a decision support system to assist in disaster management efforts. The employment of disaster management decision support system improves the efforts of search and rescue teams by allocating the right resources at the right time. However, in the study of task complexity, a task doer needs more than an adequate amount of resources to complete all incoming tasks. Therefore, this paper reviews studies of Disaster Management (DM), Decision Support System (DSS) and Disaster Management Decision Support System (DMDSS). The findings will be used to find a new direction in designing a task management technique to help search and rescue teams increase their efficiency in carrying out their daily duties.