Agile Software Development for Housing Reconstruction: The 2017 Earthquake case in Mexico
Javier ORTIZ-HERNÁNDEZ,
Víctor Josue RUIZ-MARTÍNEZ,
María Yasmín HERNÁNDEZ-PÉREZ,
Rito MIJAREZ-CASTRO https://doi.org/10.15514/ISPRAS-2021-33(5)-13
Abstract
On September 19, 2017 an earthquake occurred in Mexico with epicenter in the limits of the states of Puebla and Morelos. It had a magnitude of 7.1 on the Richter scale. 31,090 homes were affected, of which 1659 with total damage. In order to attend to the contingency, the government of Morelos formed an inter-institutional committee in the first hours to carry out an initial diagnosis of the damage and to provide emergency services. This article presents a case study and lessons learned from the software engineering support for the development of a data-driven platform in the various phases of contingency response: census of damaged homes, identification of aid beneficiaries, determination of aid packages according to a damage assessment, logistics and follow-up of aid package delivery, data-driven decision making, and a public portal for open data and budget transparency.
Supporting agencies: This work has been partially funded by the TecNM 2021 and PRODEP CA-18 projects
About the Authors
Javier ORTIZ-HERNÁNDEZ
The National Technological Institute of Mexico/Campus CENIDET
Mexico
Mexico
PhD in Informatics and Automatic, Full Professor
Víctor Josue RUIZ-MARTÍNEZ
The National Technological Institute of Mexico/Campus CENIDET
Mexico
Mexico
Master of Sciences in Information Systems
María Yasmín HERNÁNDEZ-PÉREZ
The National Technological Institute of Mexico/Campus CENIDET
Mexico
Mexico
PhD in Computer Sciences, Full Professor
Rito MIJAREZ-CASTRO
National Institute of Electricity and Clean Energies (INEEL)
Mexico
Mexico
PhD in Electrical and Electronic Engineering, Researcher and Group leader
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ORTIZ-HERNÁNDEZ J., RUIZ-MARTÍNEZ V., HERNÁNDEZ-PÉREZ M., MIJAREZ-CASTRO R. Agile Software Development for Housing Reconstruction: The 2017 Earthquake case in Mexico. Proceedings of the Institute for System Programming of the RAS (Proceedings of ISP RAS). 2021;33(5):219-236. https://doi.org/10.15514/ISPRAS-2021-33(5)-13
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