Preparing for emergency response with partial network information

Natural disasters cause considerable economic damage, loss of life, and network disruptions each year. As emergency response and infrastructure systems are interdependent and interconnected, quick assessment and repair in the event of disruption is critical. School of Computational Science and Engineering (CSE) Associate Professor B. Aditya Prakash is leading a collaborative effort with researchers from Georgia Institute of Technology, University of Oklahoma, University of Iowa, and University of Virginia to determine the state of an infrastructure network during such a disruption. Prakash's group has also been collaborating closely with the Oak Ridge National Laboratory on such problems in critical infrastructure networks. However, according to Prakash, quickly determining which infrastructure components are damaged in the event of a disaster is not easily done after a disruption.