Fuzzy Distributed Workflows for Crisis Management Decision Makers

Situations of crisis management are often part of a global distributed system which involves several partners or collaborators, and it may be hard to take decisions if only partial information is available. In this paper, we propose to solve such issue by elaborating on (i) fuzzy logic approaches and (ii) distributed workflows. This combination supports the decision maker by suggesting possible actions for the management of occurring events. We base our work on a fire emergency situation, capitalizing on existing case studies and lessons learned. Our solution relies on the combination of fuzzy workflow for addressing uncertainty, and distributed workflow for addressing collaboration.