Disaster response is a major challenge given the social and economic impact on the communities affected by disaster incidents. We investigate how coalition formation can be used for the problem of forming a hierarchy of resources (e.g., personnel responding to the incident). As a case study, we consider the roaring river flood scenario and model the Incident Command System (ICS) framework—providing guidelines on cooperatively responding to disaster incidents. Our approach is based on sequential characteristic-function games induced by size-based valuation structures. We show that this approach can deliver a hierarchy as required by the Operations Section of the ICS and provides a promising way to generate practical solutions for some realistic disaster scenarios.

鉴于受灾害事件影响的社区的社会和经济影响，灾害响应是一项重大挑战。我们研究如何利用联盟的形成来解决形成资源层次结构的问题（例如，响应事件的人员）。作为案例研究，我们考虑了汹涌的河流洪水情景，并对事件指挥系统 (ICS) 框架进行了建模，为合作应对灾害事件提供了指导。我们的方法基于基于规模的估值结构引发的顺序特征函数博弈。我们表明，这种方法可以根据 ICS 运营部分的要求提供层次结构，并提供一种有前景的方法来为某些实际灾难场景生成实用的解决方案。