M-CREAM

At the following link you can play with M-CREAM to design emergency scenarios for metropolitan or middle-sized cities ...

http://apic.casaccia.enea.it:8080/Ministories/Ministories.html

How to design an emergency scenario with M-CREAM

The tool helps to elicit scenarios that are relevant (e.g., impacting on population safety or on the economy of a city) and novel.

A scenario is built by composing simpler situations, called mini-stories, based on design patterns.

The scenario will be described through a storyline consisting of three temporal phases:

• Start phase - concerned with the description of the main cause(s) of the emergency;

• Middle phase - describing some particular situations following the original emergency;

• End phase - describing how the overall emergency is managed.

To create a scenario, for example, you could:

1. Choose and describe two start mini-stories, created from Fault Pattern referring to services impacted by the same or by two concurrent events.

2. Then choose other two mini-stories to represent subsequent situations, generated from Communication Patterns, representing how the information about the emergency is propagated.

3. Finally, an end mini-story from the Core Pattern, describing interventions from emergency services.

Design patterns