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L. Han).L. Han, et al., FireGrid: An e-infrastructure for next-generation emergency response support, J. Parallel Distrib. Comput. AbstractThe FireGrid project aims to harness the potential of advanced forms of computation to support the response to large-scale emergencies (with an initial focus on the response to fires in the built environment). Computational models of physical phenomena are developed, and then deployed and computed on High Performance Computing resources to infer incident conditions by assimilating live sensor data from an emergency in real time-or, in the case of predictive models, faster-than-real time. The results of these models are then interpreted by a knowledge-based reasoning scheme to provide decision support information in appropriate terms for the emergency responder. These models are accessed over a Grid from an agent-based system, of which the human responders form an integral part. This paper proposes a novel FireGrid architecture, and describes the rationale behind this architecture and the research results of its application to a large-scale fire experiment.'Keywords: Emergency response, Grid, High performance computing, Multi-agent system, Knowledge-based reasoning, Fire simulation model L. Han, et al., FireGrid: An e-infrastructure for next-generation emergency response support, J. Parallel Distrib. Comput.

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Closely spaced samples spanning 'flow units' at suh-bottom depths of 500 and 590 m in the drill hole at site 332B and a pillow at depth of 460 m, site 335. as well as a few individual samples at various depths in these holes and in the hole at site332A. were studied with a view to determining compositional changes effected by suhmarine alteration. The rocks are predominanlly plagioclase-olivine phyric tholeiitic hasalts. with the exception ofthe lower unit of 332B. which is a picrite formed by the concentration of olivine mebaphenc>crysts in olivine lholeiitic basalt. is L'analyse des constituants principaux montre que la majeure partie de la variation de la composition peut s'expliquer par des facteurs primaires. Dans ces echantillons, I'echange chimique avec I'eau de mer semble ktre limite, peut-ktre a cause de I'isolation rapide par enfouissement sous la masse principale d'eau oceanique.[Traduit par le journal]