Date of Award
12-2023
Document Type
Thesis
Degree Name
Master of Science (MS)
Department
Computer Science
Committee Chair/Advisor
Dr. Nathan McNeese
Committee Member
Dr. Vidya Samadi
Committee Member
Dr. Feng Luo
Abstract
The powers that artificial intelligence (AI) has developed are astounding, with recent success in integrating into a human cognitive workflow. AI will attain its full potential only if, as part of its intelligence, it also actively teams up with humans to co-create solutions. Combining AI simulation with human understanding and strategic abilities through data convergence may optimize the process and provide a capacity akin to "teaming intelligence." This thesis will introduce the concepts of Human AI Convergence (HAC) capabilities for flood evacuation decision-making. The concept introduced in this thesis is the first step toward the HAC concept in weather disaster applications. This research demonstrates a synergy between humans and AI by integrating the data produced by humans through social media with an AI system to enhance a flood evacuation decision-making problem. The prediction from Long short-term memory (LSTM) and a river hydraulic model, i.e., Height Above Nearest Drainage (HAND), is integrated with human data from X (previously Twitter) to visualize flood inundation areas, which acts as a 3rd party agent for a HAC system. The goal is to synthesize and analyze HAC competence in flood evacuation emergency management and harness the full potential of AI as a partner in real-time planning and decision-making. This thesis has explored why HAC intelligence is essential to emergency planning and decision-making, providing a general structure for researchers to use HAC to devise effective systems that cooperate well and evaluate state-of-the-art, and, in doing so, providing a research agenda and a roadmap for future flood evacuation emergency management, rescue, and decision making. This state-of-the-art flood evacuation product stands to advance the frontier of human-AI collaborative research significantly.
Recommended Citation
Karanjit, Rishav, "Converging Human Intelligence With AI Systems to Advance Flood Evacuation Decision Making" (2023). All Theses. 4185.
https://tigerprints.clemson.edu/all_theses/4185