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Author | Stijn Oomes; Martijn Neef | ||||
Title | Scaling-up support for emergency response organizations | Type | Conference Article | ||
Year | 2005 | Publication | Proceedings of ISCRAM 2005 – 2nd International Conference on Information Systems for Crisis Response and Management | Abbreviated Journal | ISCRAM 2005 |
Volume | Issue | Pages | 29-34 | ||
Keywords | Information systems; Intelligent control; Distributed agents; Emergency response; Incident command systems; Multiple interactions; Organizational information; Scaling-up; Situation awareness; United States of America; Emergency services | ||||
Abstract | We present the design of an information system that supports the process of scaling-up of emergency response organizations. This process is vital for effective emergency response but tends to go awry in practice. Our proposed system consists of multiple distributed agents that are capable of exchanging organizational information. Each agent assists one part of the organization by visualizing the organization and allowing the user to update the information of its closest collaborators. When the agents communicate, they exchange and merge their organizational representations. The structure of other parts of the organization is updated indirectly through multiple interactions between different agents. We tailor our design to two specific procedures that are in common use today: the Coordinated Regional Incident Response Procedure (GRIP) that is applied in the Netherlands, and the Incident Command System (ICS) that is used in a number of areas in the United States of America. | ||||
Address | Thales Research and Technology, DECIS, Netherlands; TNO, DECIS, Netherlands | ||||
Corporate Author | Thesis | ||||
Publisher | Royal Flemish Academy of Belgium | Place of Publication | Brussels | Editor | B. Van de Walle, B. Carle |
Language | English | Summary Language | English | Original Title | |
Series Editor | Series Title | Abbreviated Series Title | |||
Series Volume | Series Issue | Edition | |||
ISSN | 2411-3387 | ISBN | 9076971099 | Medium | |
Track | INFORMATION SYSTEMS DESIGN | Expedition | Conference | 2nd International ISCRAM Conference on Information Systems for Crisis Response and Management | |
Notes | Approved | no | |||
Call Number | Serial | 815 | |||
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