Multidisciplinary Institute in Artificial intelligence
Julie Dugdale,
Professor UGA,
Julie.Dugdale@univ-greanoble-alpes.fr
Cécile Cornou
Research Director IRD,
Cecile.Cornou@univ-grenoble-alpes.fr
The effects of climate change, coupled with anthropisation have increased the risks from natural and technological (NaTech) hazards. Anticipating and responding to such crises is challenging for crisis managers, who can be better supported by intelligent digital tools. Using a multidisciplinary and co-creation approach, we will develop an innovative next-generation digital twin (DT) for managing NaTech cascading crisis in the city of Grenoble. The focus is on population evacuation and health system response strategies, with the strong involvement of local stakeholders who are full members of the project (i.e. Grenoble University Hospital, the Departmental Fire and Rescue Service - SDIS38, Grenoble City Council). The DT will incorporate a priori and real-time data (employing innovative distributed acoustic sensing), and surrogate/reduced order models, including human-behaviour models.
The objectives are: to help crisis managers and decision makers to better prepare their crisis response plans; to develop theoretical underpinnings and skills in NaTech and AI applications; and to increase risk awareness of the population. Training will be provided to stakeholders and decision-makers, students, and the general public via summer schools, videos and webinars, mentored research projects, doctoral school training courses, and dedicated training sessions.
The chair is organized into 3 work-packages. 1 PhD student and 2 post-docs will be hired.
Objectives: Collect and analyse the physical, social and behavioral data needed for the Digital Twin
Objectives: Iteratively develop the DT, via digital models, incorporating hazard, human behaviour models and Distributed Acoustic Sensing data
Objectives: Co-construction and demonstration of digital models scenarios and DT with stakeholders
Keynote: “Beyond Rationality: Unveiling Human Behavior in Crisis Evacuations Through Agent-Based Simulation”. Julie Dugdale. International Conference on Information Systems for Crisis Response and Management (ISCRAM 2024), Münster, Germany.
Keynote: “Human behaviour in crisis situations – Modelling and Simulation”. Julie Dugdale. International Conference on Information Technology for Disaster Risk Reduction (ITDRR 2023). Tokyo, Japan.
Keynote: “Optimal sensor placement”, Didier Georges. Workshop Mathématiques & Géosciences 2024. Chambéry, France.
Abdillahi Isman, M., Nefzi, W., Mbaye, P., Khardani, S., & Yao, A. F. (2024). Kernel density estimation for a stochastic process with values in a Riemannian manifold. Journal of Nonparametric Statistics, 37(2), 344–363. https://doi.org/10.1080/10485252.2024.2382442
Ah-Pine, J., Yao, A-F.,On using derivatives and multiple kernel methods for clustering and classifying functional data,Neurocomputing, Volume 621, 2025,129231,ISSN 0925-2312, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.neucom.2024.129231.
Belhadjoudja, C., M. Maghenem, E. Witrant, D. Georges, “Boundary control for wildfire mitigation”, accepted in IEEE Conference on Decision and Control 2024, Rio de Janeiro, 2025.
Caroly, S., Weissbrodt, R., Ravanel, L., & Bodin, X. (2024). Changement climatique et risques associés à la dégradation du permafrost: quels enjeux méthodologiques en ergonomie?. Activités, (21-2). https://doi.org/10.4000/12huh
Caroly, S. (2022). Corps et gestion des risques dans l’activité collective. Toulouse : Octarès, 978-2-23330-128-1
Caroly, S., & Bonneterre, V. (2022). Coopération dans les cellules de crise à l’hopital et réseau de soin territorial. Actes du 56ème Congrès de la SELF, 6-8 juillet, Genève, pp. 560-56, https://ergonomie-self.org/wp-content/uploads/2022/05/contribution-261-final-b.pdf
Causse, M., Cornou, C., Maufroy, E., grasso, j., Baillet, L., & El Haber, E., 2021. Exceptional ground motion during the shallow Mw 4.9 2019 Le Teil Earthquake, France, Communications Earth and Environnement, Commun Earth Environ 2, 14 (2021). https://doi.org/10.1038/s43247-020-00089-0
Georges, D. “Towards Optimal Architectures for Hazard Monitoring Based on Sensor Networks and Crowdsensing.” IDRiM Journal 10 (1): 104–46 (2020). https://doi.org/10.5595/001c.17963
Georges, D. “Wildfire mitigation using an aerial firefighting vehicle: An optimal control approach”, accepted in IEEE Conference on Decision and Control 2024, Rio de Janeiro, 2025.
Hansen, A. F., Hasle, P., Caroly, S., Reinhold, K., Järvis, M., Herrig, A. O., ... & Jensen Stochkendahl, M. (2024). Participatory ergonomics: What works for whom and why? A realist review. Ergonomics, 67(1), 13-33.
Hobiger, M., C. Cornou, P.-Y. Bard, N. Le Bihan, 2011. MUSIQUE: A quaternion-based array processing technique for surface wave polarization analysis, Statistical Signal Processing Workshop (SSP), 2011 IEEE, 28-30 June 2011, pp 5-8
Iskandar, R., B. Al Tfaily, C. Cornou, P.-Y. Bard, B. Guillier, J. Harb, P. Lacroix, J. Adjizian-Gérard, E. Beck, J. Dugdale, C. Salameh, N. Saliba, 2023. Estimating urban seismic damages and debris from building-level simulations: Application to the city of Beirut, Lebanon, Bull. Earthquake Engineering, 10.1007/s10518-023-01768-x
Iskandar, Rouba, Julie Dugdale, Elise Beck, and Cécile Cornou. "Agent-based simulation of seismic crisis including human behavior: application to the city of Beirut, Lebanon." Simulation 100, no. 4 (2024): 357-377.
Konaté, M.A., Yao, A-F, Château, T. and Bouges, P. "Toward industrial use of continual learning: new metrics proposal for class incremental learning," 2023 International Joint Conference on Neural Networks (IJCNN), Gold Coast, Australia, 2023, pp. 01-07, doi: 10.1109/IJCNN54540.2023.10191657.
Moradi, Hossein, Rouba Iskandar, Sebastian Rodriguez, Dhirendra Singh, Julie Dugdale, Dimitrios Tzempelikos, Athanasios Sfetsos et al. "Improving Evacuation Policies through Agent-Based Modeling and Stakeholder Engagement in Hazard-Prone Areas." International Journal of Disaster Risk Reduction (2025): 105280.
Moradi, Hossein, Rouba Iskandar, Sebastian Rodriguez, Dhirendra Singh, Julie Dugdale, Dimitrios Tzempelikos, and Athanasios Sfetsos. "A Framework for Constructing Agent-based Models for Evaluating Emergency Evacuation Procedures; A Case Study Applied to Egaleo, Greece." In 58th Hawaii International Conference on System Sciences. 2025.
Sierra, A., Cornou, C., Hechmi, A., Ferjani, S., 2024. Penser les crises futures de l’environnement urbain : le cas de l’espace portuaire de Tunis, Bulletin de l’association de Geographes Français, 491-506.
Weissbrodt, R., Caroly, S., Pisoeiro, J. M., Ravanel, L., & Bodin, X. (2024). Roles and activities of local stakeholders facing Alpine permafrost warming: A comparative exploratory analysis of three contexts and networks of actors. Climate Risk Management, 44, 100591, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.crm.2024.100591
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