Abstract
Agent-Based Disaster Simulation Environment (ABDiSE) is a framework that provides model elements and tools to support modeling and simulation of common types of natural disasters, including fires, floods and debris flows. The underlying disaster model is agent based: Active objects describe how agents move, attach, and interact with each other and with their environment. ABDiSE is extensible: Agents and external simulators needed to model elements and dynamics of new disaster scenarios and define behaviors and interactions of agents can be added without requiring recompilation. ABDiSE is a multi-threaded, capable of taking advantage of available computing resource to speed up simulation.