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Coordination of emergency response operations via the event-based awareness mechanism
Bo Yu
author
Guoray Cai
author
2012
Simon Fraser University
Vancouver, BC
English
Emergency response involves collaboration among search and rescue workers, medical staff, transportation coordinators, and others to save human lives and minimize damages. While carrying out local activities, members of the teams must also attend to new events happening elsewhere that may affect their work, and be prepared to adjust their activities accordingly. This paper describes a computer supported coordination system, DACE (Dependency-based Awareness and Coordination Environment), which offers a scalable solution to coordination in emergency response. The system serves as a cognitive aid to human actors in both maintaining a group mental model of the overall collaborative activities and their dependencies, and determining the effects of events as they propagate through the web of dependencies. We demonstrate the principles and utility of the DACE system through a hypothetical scenario of search and rescue exercise. This work contributes to the goal of scaling up awareness-based coordination in emergency response. © 2012 ISCRAM.
Information systems
Awareness
Coordination
Dependency
Emergency response
Event Processing
Emergency services
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ISCRAM 2012 Conference Proceedings – 9th International Conference on Information Systems for Crisis Response and Management
ISCRAM 2012
L. Rothkrantz
J
Ristvej
editor
9th International ISCRAM Conference on Information Systems for Crisis Response and Management
2012
Simon Fraser University
Vancouver, BC
conference publication
9780864913326
2411-3387
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