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Seyed Hossein Chavoshi; Mahmoud Reza Delavar; Mahdieh Soleimani; Motahareh Chavoshi |
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Toward developing an expert GIS for damage evaluation after an earthquake (case study: Tehran) |
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2008 |
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Proceedings of ISCRAM 2008 – 5th International Conference on Information Systems for Crisis Response and Management |
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ISCRAM 2008 |
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Disasters; Expert systems; Geographic information systems; Information systems; Managers; Damage evaluation; Earthquake disaster; Emergency response; Historical data; Knowledge base; Knowledge-based model; Scientific studies; Strong earthquakes; Earthquakes |
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In an earthquake disaster, having proper estimation about destructed buildings and the degree of destruction, can considerably facilitate decision-making and planning for disaster managers. Using this information, the managers can estimate disaster area and number of victims to determine and allocate required resources. Scientific studies and historical data show that the faults around Tehran, the capital of Iran, are capable to create strong earthquakes which would bring the largest damages in the world history to the city. So it is necessary to be prepared for a rapid and knowledge-based response to such an earthquake. Therefore, development of a knowledge-based model to estimate destruction of buildings is ongoing. The model is going to be developed by using different spatial data obtained from the buildings and its environment in Tehran. This paper outlines the initial results of this research. |
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Dept. of Surveying and Geomatics Eng., College of Engineering, University of Tehran, Teharan, Iran; Technical Institute of Surveying and Mapping, National Geographical Organization of Iran, Iran |
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Information Systems for Crisis Response and Management, ISCRAM |
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Washington, DC |
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F. Fiedrich, B. Van de Walle |
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5th International ISCRAM Conference on Information Systems for Crisis Response and Management |
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Albert Y. Chen; Feniosky Peña-Mora; Saumil J. Mehta; Stuart Foltz; Albert P. Plans; Brian R. Brauer; Scott Nacheman |
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A GIS approach to equipment allocation for structural stabilization and civilian rescue |
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2010 |
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ISCRAM 2010 – 7th International Conference on Information Systems for Crisis Response and Management: Defining Crisis Management 3.0, Proceedings |
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ISCRAM 2010 |
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Artificial intelligence; Decision support systems; Disaster prevention; Disasters; Geographic information systems; Information systems; Lifesaving equipment; Radio frequency identification (RFID); Equipment allocation; Illinois fire service institutes; Resource repositories; Situational awareness; Structural condition; Structural stabilization; Urban search and rescue; Urban search and rescue operations; Emergency services |
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Efficient request and deployment of critical resources for urban search and rescue operations is vital to emergency response. This paper presents a RFID (Radio Frequency Identification) supported system for on-site data collection to communicate structural condition, to track search and rescue status, and to request and allocate appropriate resources. The system provides a unified interface for efficient posing, gathering, storing and sharing of building assessment information. Visualization and easy access of such information enables rescuers to response to the disaster with better situational awareness. Resource requests are sent to the GIS resource repository service that enables a visual disaster management environment for resource allocation. Request and deployment of critical resources through this system enables lifesaving efforts, with the appropriate equipment, operator, and materials, become more efficient and effective. System development at the Illinois Fire Service Institute has shown promising results. |
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University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign, United States; Columbia University, United States; Construction Engineering Research Lab, United States; Universitat of Politècnica, Catalunya, Spain; Illinois Fire Service Institute, United States; Thornton Tomasetti, United States |
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Information Systems for Crisis Response and Management, ISCRAM |
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Seattle, WA |
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S. French, B. Tomaszewski, C. Zobel |
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7th International ISCRAM Conference on Information Systems for Crisis Response and Management |
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Rui Chen; Raghav H. Rao; Raj Sharman; Shambhu J Upadhyaya; Catherine Cook-Cottone |
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Examination of emergency response from knowledge and psychology perspectives |
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2010 |
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ISCRAM 2010 – 7th International Conference on Information Systems for Crisis Response and Management: Defining Crisis Management 3.0, Proceedings |
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ISCRAM 2010 |
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Information systems; Emergency response; Emergency Response Information Systems; Emergency response management; Knowledge; Organizational effectiveness; Psychological factors; Psychology; Research-in-progress; Emergency services |
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This research-in-progress examines the roles of technology and human systems in supporting emergency response management through the dual perspectives of knowledge and psychology. Task critical knowledge is linked to organizational effectiveness in delivering business value and psychological factors characterize the unique challenges of an emergency context. This exploratory research is among the first to develop a theoretical model based on these two important yet understudied theoretical aspects. The article contributes to the research development in emergency response information systems and sheds light on the organizational response management practice. |
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Ball State University, United States; State University of New York, Buffalo, United States |
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Information Systems for Crisis Response and Management, ISCRAM |
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Seattle, WA |
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S. French, B. Tomaszewski, C. Zobel |
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7th International ISCRAM Conference on Information Systems for Crisis Response and Management |
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Elia Chepaitis |
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The impact of Y2K on crisis management: Widening the stakeholder circle for crisis prevention and response |
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2004 |
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Proceedings of ISCRAM 2004 – 1st International Workshop on Information Systems for Crisis Response and Management |
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ISCRAM 2004 |
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Information systems; Computer engineers; Contingency planning; Crisis management; Crisis preventions; Emergency preparedness; Government agencies; Stakeholders; Y2k; Medical computing |
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Although Y2K was neither an accident nor an unanticipated challenge, the millennium debugging represented a watershed event for crisis response and management, and the range of effects remains relevant in 2004. Not only information systems professionals, but also leaders and professionals in every application area saw computer systems as subsystems of their areas of responsibility and accountability. The acknowledged dependence of government, healthcare, utilities, transportation, services, and communications on reliable information systems widened the circle of stakeholders for crisis prevention, response, and management. Emergency preparedness and broad systems approaches to disaster and contingency planning were enhanced by the ubiquitous multi-year Y2K effort. The author emphasizes the investments, learning, leadership, and commitment in information systems control that occurred as part of the prevention stage of crisis management as a result of Y2K. The simultaneity, high stakes, and ubiquity of the millennium crisis permanently altered the circle of players with vested interests in and responsibility for information systems control. From government agencies to households, users realized that the scope of information systems design and reliability must extend beyond computer engineers and information systems professionals to ensure the general good. © Proceedings ISCRAM 2004. |
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Information Systems and Operations Management, Fairfield University, Fairfield, CT 06430, United States |
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Royal Flemish Academy of Belgium |
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Brussels |
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B. Van de Walle, B. Carle |
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9076971080 |
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1st International ISCRAM Conference on Information Systems for Crisis Response and Management |
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Chris Hagar |
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Public Library Partnerships with Local Agencies to Meet Community Disaster Preparedness and Response Needs |
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2015 |
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ISCRAM 2015 Conference Proceedings ? 12th International Conference on Information Systems for Crisis Response and Management |
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ISCRAM 2015 |
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community engagement; Disaster Preparedness; Disaster Response; emergency management community; Public libraries |
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This paper reports on the initial findings of the first phase of a study funded by San Jose State University, USA to provideinsightregardinghowpubliclibrariescanbe moreinvolvedincommunity-wide disasterplanning,strengtheningtheirroleascoremembersof theircommunities?disasterpreparedness and responseinfrastructure. The first phase of the study involves a nationwide survey of public library directors and library staff who are involved in coordinating disaster planning for their institutions. A survey was carried out during December 2014 and January 2015 to explorewhatpubliclibrariescanbringtocommunity-wideplanningefforts and thetypesofpartnershipsthatarepossible. The findingswillprovidelibraryleaderswithvaluableinsighton how to proactivelyengageindialogueandplanningwiththeirlocalemergencymanagement community. The second phase emerging from the research will involve follow-up in-depth explorations of the exemplary disaster planning models. |
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University of Agder (UiA) |
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Kristiansand, Norway |
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L. Palen; M. Buscher; T. Comes; A. Hughes |
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ISCRAM 2015 Conference Proceedings ? 12th International Conference on Information Systems for Crisis Response and Management |
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Christoph Amelunxen; Janina Isabella Sander |
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Information collection using process visualisation in the risk management concept for emergency response |
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2019 |
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Proceedings of the 16th International Conference on Information Systems for Crisis Response And Management |
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Iscram 2019 |
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Pictogram-based process visualisation, risk management, risk identification, emergency response, CBRN |
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Security-critical processes of emergency response are part of a complex system of people, organisation and
technology. They are often characterised by their own dynamics, interconnectedness and information deficits. In
addition, a wide variety of stakeholders, some from different organisations, work together, each specialising in a
specific area. In order to capture this (process-) knowledge in risk management, information from the experts is
necessary. However, experts are difficult to access, often separated locally, cost-intensive and usually have little
time (discussion-) capacity. A pictogram-based process visualisation was developed within the risk management
concept. The method could be validated within a European project in an expert workshop. This was done using
the example of a CBRN mass casualty incident. By using the methods presented, very good qualitative and
quantitative results can be achieved from the perspectives of various organisations and their experts. The limited
resource ?expert? is used optimally. |
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Paderborn University, Germany |
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Iscram |
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Valencia, Spain |
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Franco, Z.; González, J.J.; Canós, J.H. |
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978-84-09-10498-7 |
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T7- Planning, Foresight and Risk Analysis |
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16th International Conference on Information Systems for Crisis Response and Management (ISCRAM 2019) |
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Christophe Viavattene; Simon McCarthy; Michelle Ferri; Martina Monego; Maurizio Mazzoleni |
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Evaluation of emergency protocols using agent-based approach |
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2016 |
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ISCRAM 2016 Conference Proceedings ? 13th International Conference on Information Systems for Crisis Response and Management |
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ISCRAM 2016 |
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Disaster Operations Management; Response Resource Allocation Planning; Emergency Protocol; Agent-Based Modelling |
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Integrated flood risk management involves a large portfolio of options for mitigating risks that includes hard and soft structural, non-structural, and recovery responses. Non-structural responses include flood warnings, emergency services supported by individuals, collective actions and the use of resistance and resilience measures. Sufficient flood warning time, appropriate actions at desired locations and time are essential for effective and beneficial responses. From this perspective beside the management of the crisis itself, the level of preparedness including the evaluation of plans involving such responses (e.g. emergency protocols) also needs to be sufficient and, thus in the context of various event scenarios. |
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Federal University of Rio de Janeiro |
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Rio de Janeiro, Brasil |
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A. Tapia; P. Antunes; V.A. Bañuls; K. Moore; J. Porto |
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13th International Conference on Information Systems for Crisis Response and Management |
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Michael J. Chumer; Murray Turoff |
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Command and control (C2): Adapting the distributed military model for emergency response and emergency management |
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2006 |
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Proceedings of ISCRAM 2006 – 3rd International Conference on Information Systems for Crisis Response and Management |
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ISCRAM 2006 |
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Civil defense; Command and control systems; Disasters; Information systems; Military applications; Risk management; Command and control; Emergency; Emergency management; Hro; Response; Emergency services |
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The military use of Command and Control (C2) has been refined over centuries of use and developed through years of combat situations. This C2 model is framed as process, function, and organization, suggesting that emergency response organizations and emergency management structure their non military C2 and subsequent response scenarios within the C2 framework established in this paper. |
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IS Department, NJIT University Heights, Newark, NJ 07102, United States |
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Royal Flemish Academy of Belgium |
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Newark, NJ |
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B. Van de Walle, M. Turoff |
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9090206019; 9789090206011 |
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3rd International ISCRAM Conference on Information Systems for Crisis Response and Management |
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Marline Claessens; Nicolas Lewyckyj; Jane Biesemans; Jurgen Everaerts |
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Pegasus, a UAV project for disaster management |
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2005 |
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Proceedings of ISCRAM 2005 – 2nd International Conference on Information Systems for Crisis Response and Management |
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ISCRAM 2005 |
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Aircraft accidents; Disaster prevention; Disasters; Information systems; Remote sensing; Solar energy; Disaster management; Emergency situation; European governments; Geographical information; High resolution data; Local authorities; Technological researches; UAV (unmanned aerial vehicle); Unmanned aerial vehicles (UAV) |
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The Flemish Institute for Technological Research (Vito) in Belgium has initiated in 2000 the PEGASUS (Policy support for European Governments by Acquisition of information from Satellite and UAV-borne Sensors) project which envisages the development of a solar powered UAV (Unmanned Aerial Vehicle) containing several types of instruments for remote sensing and flying at an altitude of about 20 km. The aircraft can be deployed rapidly in crisis situations and provide disaster managers with ~1 m resolution images (or better if required) of the affected area. High quality data shall be received in less than half an hour from a mobile ground station that is in direct contact with the UAV, which can operate as long as requested by the user. The PEGASUS HALE-UAV is a flexible and cost-effective tool that will allow officials and local authorities to dispose quickly over relevant geographical information in an emergency situation. The first demonstration flight of the PEGASUS HALE-UAV shall take place in the summer of 2005 over Flanders. |
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Flemish Institute for Technological Research (Vito), Centre for Remote Sensing and Earth Observation (TAP), Boeretang 200, 2400 Mol, Belgium |
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Royal Flemish Academy of Belgium |
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Brussels |
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B. Van de Walle, B. Carle |
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9076971099 |
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2nd International ISCRAM Conference on Information Systems for Crisis Response and Management |
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Claudio Arbib; Davide Arcelli; Julie Dugdale; Mahyar Tourchi Moghaddam; Henry Muccini |
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Real-time Emergency Response through Performant IoT Architectures |
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2019 |
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Proceedings of the 16th International Conference on Information Systems for Crisis Response And Management |
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Iscram 2019 |
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Emergency Evacuation, IoT, Software Architecture, Network Optimization, Queuing Network. |
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This paper describes the design of an Internet of Things (IoT) system for building evacuation. There are two main
design decisions for such systems: i) specifying the platform on which the IoT intelligent components should be
located; and ii) establishing the level of collaboration among the components. For safety-critical systems, such as
evacuation, real-time performance and evacuation time are critical. The approach aims to minimize computational
and evacuation delays and uses Queuing Network (QN) models. The approach was tested, by computer simulation,
on a real exhibition venue in Alan Turing Building, Italy, that has 34 sets of IoT sensors and actuators. Experiments
were performed that tested the effect of segmenting the physical space into different sized virtual cubes. Experiments
were also conducted concerning the distribution of the software architecture. The results show that using centralized
architectural pattern with a segmentation of the space into large cubes is the only feasible solution. |
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University of L'Aquila, Italy;University of Grenoble |
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Iscram |
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Valencia, Spain |
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Franco, Z.; González, J.J.; Canós, J.H. |
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English |
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T5- Intelligent and Semantic Web Systems |
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16th International Conference on Information Systems for Crisis Response and Management (ISCRAM 2019) |
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Graham Coates; Glenn I. Hawe; Duncan T. Wilson; Roger S. Crouch |
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Adaptive co-ordinated emergency response to rapidly evolving large-scale unprecedented events (REScUE) |
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2011 |
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8th International Conference on Information Systems for Crisis Response and Management: From Early-Warning Systems to Preparedness and Training, ISCRAM 2011 |
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ISCRAM 2011 |
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Artificial intelligence; Decision support systems; Information systems; Adaptive search method; Agent based simulation; Co-ordination; Decision supports; Emergency response; Geographical locations; Integrated frameworks; Team composition and task allocations; Emergency services |
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This paper presents an overview of ongoing research into the development of an integrated framework aimed at adaptive co-ordination of emergency response to dynamic, fast evolving and novel events on a large-scale. The framework consists of (i) a decision support system, supported by rapid adaptive search methods, to enable the real time development of tailored response plans including emergency responder team composition and task allocation to these teams, and (ii) an agent-based simulation of emergency response to large-scale events occurring in real geographical locations. The aim of this research is to contribute to understanding how better agent-based simulation coupled with decision support can be used to enable the effective co-ordination of emergency response, involving the collective efforts and actions of multiple agencies (ambulance services, fire brigades, police forces and emergency planning units), to rapidly evolving large-scale unprecedented events. |
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Durham University, United Kingdom |
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Information Systems for Crisis Response and Management, ISCRAM |
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Lisbon |
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M.A. Santos, L. Sousa, E. Portela |
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Intelligent Systems |
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8th International ISCRAM Conference on Information Systems for Crisis Response and Management |
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Cody Buntain; Richard Mccreadie; Ian Soboroff |
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Incident Streams 2020: TRECIS in the Time of COVID-19 |
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2021 |
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ISCRAM 2021 Conference Proceedings – 18th International Conference on Information Systems for Crisis Response and Management |
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Iscram 2021 |
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621-639 |
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Emergency Management, Crisis Informatics, Twitter, Categorization, Prioritization, COVID-19 |
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Between 2018 and 2019, the Incident Streams track (TREC-IS) has developed standard approaches for classifying the types and criticality of information shared in online social spaces during crises, but the introduction of SARS-CoV-2 has shifted the landscape of online crises substantially. While prior editions of TREC-IS have lacked data on large-scale public-health emergencies as these events are exceedingly rare, COVID-19 has introduced an over-abundance of potential data, and significant open questions remain about how existing approaches to crisis informatics and datasets built on other emergencies adapt to this new context. This paper describes how the 2020 edition of TREC-IS has addressed these dual issues by introducing a new COVID-19-specific task for evaluating generalization of existing COVID-19 annotation and system performance to this new context, applied to 11 regions across the globe. TREC-IS has also continued expanding its set of target crises, adding 29 new events and expanding the collection of event types to include explosions, fires, and general storms, making for a total of 9 event types in addition to the new COVID-19 events. Across these events, TREC-IS has made available 478,110 COVID-related messages and 282,444 crisis-related messages for participant systems to analyze, of which 14,835 COVID-related and 19,784 crisis-related messages have been manually annotated. Analyses of these new datasets and participant systems demonstrate first that both the distributions of information type and priority of information vary between general crises and COVID-19-related discussion. Secondly, despite these differences, results suggest leveraging general crisis data in the COVID-19 context improves performance over baselines. Using these results, we provide guidance on which information types appear most consistent between general crises and COVID-19. |
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New Jersey Institute of Technology; University of Glasgow; National Institute of Standards and Technology |
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Virginia Tech |
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Blacksburg, VA (USA) |
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Anouck Adrot; Rob Grace; Kathleen Moore; Christopher W. Zobel |
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978-1-949373-61-5 |
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Social Media for Disaster Response and Resilience |
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18th International Conference on Information Systems for Crisis Response and Management |
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cbuntain@njit.edu |
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ISCRAM @ idladmin @ |
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2360 |
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Cody Buntain; Richard Mccreadie; Ian Soboroff |
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Incident Streams 2021 Off the Deep End: Deeper Annotations and Evaluations in Twitter |
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2022 |
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ISCRAM 2022 Conference Proceedings – 19th International Conference on Information Systems for Crisis Response and Management |
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Iscram 2022 |
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584-604 |
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Emergency Management; Crisis Informatics; Twitter; Categorization; Priorization; Multi-Modal; Public Safety; PSCR; TREC |
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This paper summarizes the final year of the four-year Text REtrieval Conference Incident Streams track (TREC-IS), which has produced a large dataset comprising 136,263 annotated tweets, spanning 98 crisis events. Goals of this final year were twofold: 1) to add new categories for assessing messages, with a focus on characterizing the audience, author, and images associated with these messages, and 2) to enlarge the TREC-IS dataset with new events, with an emphasis of deeper pools for sampling. Beyond these two goals, TREC-IS has nearly doubled the number of annotated messages per event for the 26 crises introduced in 2021 and has released a new parallel dataset of 312,546 images associated with crisis content – with 7,297 tweets having annotations about their embedded images. Our analyses of this new crisis data yields new insights about the context of a tweet; e.g., messages intended for a local audience and those that contain images of weather forecasts and infographics have higher than average assessments of priority but are relatively rare. Tweets containing images, however, have higher perceived priorities than tweets without images. Moving to deeper pools, while tending to lower classification performance, also does not generally impact performance rankings or alter distributions of information-types. We end this paper with a discussion of these datasets, analyses, their implications, and how they contribute both new data and insights to the broader crisis informatics community. |
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University of Maryland, College Park (UMD); University of Glasgow; National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) |
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Tarbes, France |
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Rob Grace; Hossein Baharmand |
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2411-3387 |
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978-82-8427-099-9 |
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Social Media for Crisis Management |
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ISCRAM @ idladmin @ |
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2441 |
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Linn Marks Collins; James E. Powell Jr.; Carolyn E Dunford; Ketan K. Mane; Mark L.B. Martinez |
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Emergency information Synthesis and awareness using E-SOS |
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2008 |
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Proceedings of ISCRAM 2008 – 5th International Conference on Information Systems for Crisis Response and Management |
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ISCRAM 2008 |
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618-623 |
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Human computer interaction; Information management; Information science; Information systems; Web services; Websites; Awareness tool; Cognitive overload; Emergency Response Information Systems; Information synthesis; Information visualization; User centered designs; Systems engineering |
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In an emergency, people need to be able to report and find relevant information quickly. Fulfilling these information needs is the design goal of E-SOS: Emergency Situation Overview and Synthesis, a research project in progress. E-SOS will consist of (1) a website where users can report information, (2) web services that find and synthesize related information from multiple sources, and (3) interface tools that visualize and display links to this information. In this paper we describe three of these services and tools: the topic, geographic, and information space awareness tools. When a user writes a report, the topic awareness tool will execute a federated search and display links to related information. The information space awareness tool will highlight these links in a visualization of the information space. If the user refers to a location, the geographic awareness tool will focus a map on this location and display topic-related icons. |
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Los Alamos National Laboratory Research Library, Knowledge Systems and Human-Computer Interaction Team, Los Alamos, NM 87545-1362, United States |
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Information Systems for Crisis Response and Management, ISCRAM |
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Washington, DC |
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F. Fiedrich, B. Van de Walle |
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English |
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2411-3387 |
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9780615206974 |
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HCI for Emergencies |
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5th International ISCRAM Conference on Information Systems for Crisis Response and Management |
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403 |
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Tina Comes; Frank Schätter; Frank Schultmann |
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Building robust supply networks for effective and efficient disaster response |
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2013 |
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ISCRAM 2013 Conference Proceedings – 10th International Conference on Information Systems for Crisis Response and Management |
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ISCRAM 2013 |
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230-240 |
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Decision support systems; Disaster prevention; Disasters; Distribution of goods; Efficiency; Information systems; Optimization; Decision supports; Effectiveness; Humanitarian relief; Multi-criteria decision analysis; Optimisations; Supply networks; Emergency services |
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The effective and efficient distribution of relief goods is a key challenge in disaster management. Typically, adhoc supply networks (SNs) need to be built, in which various actors with different interests collaborate. Although information is sparse and highly uncertain, time for SN design is short, and important strategic decisions (e.g., location of facilities), whose revision requires investing substantial time, effort and resources, must be made promptly. This paper presents an iterative approach for the design of robust SNs that combines (i) an optimisation model to identify promising alternatives to be analysed in detail, (ii) a scenario-based approach to analyse the weaknesses of these alternatives and generate alternative solutions for comparison and benchmarking, and (iii) a decision support module for detailed comparisons and consensus building. By following the iterative approach, successively robust SNs are created to enable effective and efficient disaster response. We illustrate our approach by an example from the Haiti 2010 earthquake. |
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Institute for Industrial Production, KIT, Germany |
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Karlsruher Institut fur Technologie |
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KIT; Baden-Baden |
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T. Comes, F. Fiedrich, S. Fortier, J. Geldermann and T. Müller |
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English |
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English |
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2411-3387 |
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9783923704804 |
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Decision Support Systems |
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10th International ISCRAM Conference on Information Systems for Crisis Response and Management |
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Tina Comes; Claudine Conrado; Michael Hiete; Michiel Kamermans; Gregor Pavlin; Niek Wijngaards |
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An intelligent decision support system for decision making under uncertainty in distributed reasoning frameworks |
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2010 |
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ISCRAM 2010 – 7th International Conference on Information Systems for Crisis Response and Management: Defining Crisis Management 3.0, Proceedings |
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ISCRAM 2010 |
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Automation; Civil defense; Decision making; Decision support systems; Disasters; Expert systems; Information systems; Intelligent systems; Multi agent systems; Risk management; Decision making under uncertainty; Distributed decision support systems; Distributed reasonings; Emergency management; Intelligent decision support systems; Multi-criteria decision analysis; Scenario-based; Theoretical framework; Information filtering |
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This paper presents an intelligent system facilitating better-informed decision making under severe uncertainty as found in emergency management. The construction of decision-relevant scenarios, being coherent and plausible descriptions of a situation and its future development, is used as a rationale for collecting, organizing, filtering and processing information for decision making. The development of scenarios is geared to assessing decision alternatives, thus avoiding time-consuming analysis and processing of irrelevant information. The scenarios are constructed in a distributed setting allowing for a flexible adaptation of reasoning (principles and processes) to the problem at hand and the information available. This approach ensures that each decision can be founded on a coherent set of scenarios, which was constructed using the best expertise available within a limited timeframe. Our theoretical framework is demonstrated in a distributed decision support system by orchestrating both automated systems and human experts into workflows tailored to each specific problem. |
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Institute for Industrial Production, Karlsruhe Institute of Technology (KIT), Germany; D-CIS Lab / Thales Research and Technology, Netherlands |
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Information Systems for Crisis Response and Management, ISCRAM |
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Seattle, WA |
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S. French, B. Tomaszewski, C. Zobel |
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Intelligent Systems |
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7th International ISCRAM Conference on Information Systems for Crisis Response and Management |
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406 |
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Tina Comes; Niek Wijngaards; Frank Schultmann |
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Efficient scenario updating in emergency management |
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2012 |
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ISCRAM 2012 Conference Proceedings – 9th International Conference on Information Systems for Crisis Response and Management |
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ISCRAM 2012 |
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Decision support systems; Disasters; Graph theory; Information systems; Risk management; Decision makers; Emergency management; Formalisation; Large volumes; Multicriteria decision support; Scenario management; Scenario-based; Situation awareness; Civil defense |
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Emergency managers need to assess, combine and process large volumes of information with varying degrees of (un)certainty. To keep track of the uncertainties and to facilitate gaining an understanding of the situation, the information is combined into scenarios: stories about the situation and its development. As the situation evolves, typically more information becomes available and already acknowledged information is changed or revised. Meanwhile, decision-makers need to keep track of the scenarios including an assessment whether the infor-mation constituting the scenario is still valid and relevant for their purposes. Standard techniques to support sce-nario updating usually involve complete scenario re-construction. This is far too time-consuming in emergency management. Our approach uses a graph theoretical scenario formalisation to enable efficient scenario updating. MCDA techniques are employed to decide whether information changes are sufficiently important to warrant scenario updating. A brief analysis of the use-case demonstrates a large gain in efficiency. © 2012 ISCRAM. |
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Institute for Industrial Production (IIP), Karlsruhe Institute of Technology (KIT), Germany; Thales Research and Technology Netherlands, D-CIS Lab, Germany |
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Simon Fraser University |
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Vancouver, BC |
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L. Rothkrantz, J. Ristvej, Z.Franco |
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English |
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English |
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2411-3387 |
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9780864913326 |
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Track Decision Support Methods for Complex Crises |
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9th International ISCRAM Conference on Information Systems for Crisis Response and Management |
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Louise K. Comfort; Brian A. Chalfant; Jee Eun Song; Mengyao Chen; Brian Colella |
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Managing information processes in disaster events: The impact of superstorm sandy on business organizations |
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2014 |
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ISCRAM 2014 Conference Proceedings – 11th International Conference on Information Systems for Crisis Response and Management |
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ISCRAM 2014 |
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230-239 |
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Disasters; Information systems; Societies and institutions; Storms; Business organizations; Community resiliences; Disaster response; Emergency response systems; Government agencies; Intergovernmental communication and coordination; Non profit organizations; Organizational network; Emergency services |
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Building community resilience to natural disasters represents a major policy priority for the United States as hazards impact vulnerable urban regions with increasing frequency and severity. Applying network analysis techniques, we examine the dynamics of emergency response to Superstorm Sandy, which struck the United States east coast in late October 2012 and caused over $72 billion in damages. Drawing on a variety of data sources and analytical techniques, we document the storm's impact on a system of interacting private, public, and nonprofit organizations. We find that the storm's response network exhibited clear patterns of information gaps and flows among different types of organizations. Our findings suggest a general lack of communication between government agencies and businesses, an area of potential improvement in future regional-scale emergency response systems. |
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Center for Disaster Management, University of Pittsburgh, United States |
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The Pennsylvania State University |
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University Park, PA |
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S.R. Hiltz, M.S. Pfaff, L. Plotnick, and P.C. Shih. |
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English |
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English |
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2411-3387 |
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9780692211946 |
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Decision Support Systems |
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11th International ISCRAM Conference on Information Systems for Crisis Response and Management |
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409 |
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Louise K. Comfort; Brian Colella; Mark Voortman; Scott Connelly; Jill L. Drury; Gary L. Klein; Wukich |
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Real-time decision making in urgent events: Modeling options for action |
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2013 |
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ISCRAM 2013 Conference Proceedings – 10th International Conference on Information Systems for Crisis Response and Management |
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ISCRAM 2013 |
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571-580 |
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Information systems; Managers; Bayesian model; Decision space; Emergency response; Option awareness; Situation awareness; Decision making |
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Decision making in extreme events presents a difficult challenge to emergency managers who are legally responsible for protecting life, property, and maintaining continuity of operations for their respective organizations or communities. Prior research has identified the benefits of gaining situation awareness in rapidly changing disaster contexts, but situation awareness is not always sufficient. We have investigated “option awareness” and the decision space to provide cognitive support for emergency managers to simulate computationally possible outcomes of different options before they make a decision. Employing a user-centered design process, we developed a computational model that rapidly generates ranges of likely outcomes for different options and displays them visually through a prototype decision-space interface that allows rapid comparison of the options. Feedback from emergency managers suggests that decision spaces may enable emergency managers to consider a wider range of options for decisions and may facilitate more targeted, effective decision making under uncertain conditions. |
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Center for Disaster Management, University of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, PA, United States; MITRE Corporation, Bedford, MA and McLean, VA, United States; Department of Political Science, Sam Houston State University, Huntsville, TX, United States |
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Karlsruher Institut fur Technologie |
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KIT; Baden-Baden |
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T. Comes, F. Fiedrich, S. Fortier, J. Geldermann and T. Müller |
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English |
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English |
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2411-3387 |
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9783923704804 |
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Innovations in Research |
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10th International ISCRAM Conference on Information Systems for Crisis Response and Management |
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Louise K. Comfort; Milos Hauskrecht; Jeen-Shang Lin |
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Dynamic networks: Modeling change in environments exposed to risk |
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2008 |
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Proceedings of ISCRAM 2008 – 5th International Conference on Information Systems for Crisis Response and Management |
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ISCRAM 2008 |
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576-585 |
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Adaptive systems; Complex networks; Information systems; Models; Small-world networks; Complex adaptive systems; Dynamic environments; Emergency response systems; Interdependent systems; Situational assessment; Sociotechnical systems; Transportation system; University of Pittsburgh; Risk assessment |
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Modeling the interaction between interdependent systems in dynamic environments represents a promising approach to enabling communities to assess and manage the recurring risk to which they are exposed. We frame the problem as a complex, adaptive system, examining the interaction between transportation and emergency response as a socio-technical system. Using methods of spatial and statistical analysis, we overlaid the engineered transportation system on the organizational emergency response system to identify the thresholds of fragility in each. We present a research design and preliminary results from a small-scale study conducted in the Pittsburgh Metropolitan Region that examined the interaction between the transportation and emergency response systems. These results informed the design of a Situational Assessment Module for emergency managers, currently under development at the University of Pittsburgh. |
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University of Pittsburgh, United States |
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Information Systems for Crisis Response and Management, ISCRAM |
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Washington, DC |
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F. Fiedrich, B. Van de Walle |
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English |
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English |
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9780615206974 |
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Impact of Disasters on Industry and Economic Effects |
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5th International ISCRAM Conference on Information Systems for Crisis Response and Management |
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Sherri L. Condon; Jason R. Robinson |
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Communication media use in emergency response management |
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2014 |
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ISCRAM 2014 Conference Proceedings – 11th International Conference on Information Systems for Crisis Response and Management |
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ISCRAM 2014 |
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687-696 |
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Information systems; Managers; Catastrophic event; Communication media; Emergency response; Emergency response management; Information and Communication Technologies; Instant messaging; Social media; University campus; Emergency services |
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The communications of emergency response managers were tracked during simulated catastrophic events at a university campus in the Washington, D.C. region. Local, state, and federal response managers interacted with each other and with students using a variety of communication media in order to investigate the utility of new communication channels for emergency response management. Students and emergency managers interacted using a Twitter-like platform and a portal built with Ushahidi crowd-sourcing software. The emergency managers also used a chat interface that included private instant messaging, telephone, and the county's existing emergency web portal. Their media use was analyzed along with the functions of their communications, and the patterns that emerged are described and quantified. |
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MITRE Corporation, United States |
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The Pennsylvania State University |
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University Park, PA |
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S.R. Hiltz, M.S. Pfaff, L. Plotnick, and P.C. Shih. |
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English |
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Social Media in Crisis Response and Management |
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Conference |
11th International ISCRAM Conference on Information Systems for Crisis Response and Management |
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412 |
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Congcong Wang; Paul Nulty; David Lillis |
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Title |
Crisis Domain Adaptation Using Sequence-to-Sequence Transformers |
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Conference Article |
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2021 |
Publication |
ISCRAM 2021 Conference Proceedings – 18th International Conference on Information Systems for Crisis Response and Management |
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Iscram 2021 |
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655-666 |
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Domain Adaptation, Emergency Response, Social media, Transformers |
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User-generated content (UGC) on social media can act as a key source of information for emergency responders incrisis situations. However, due to the volume concerned, computational techniques are needed to effectively filter and prioritise this content as it arises during emerging events. In the literature, these techniques are trained using annotated content from previous crises. In this paper, we investigate how this prior knowledge can be best leveraged for new crises by examining the extent to which crisis events of a similar type are more suitable for adaptation tonew events (cross-domain adaptation). Given the recent successes of transformers in various language processing tasks, we propose CAST: an approach for Crisis domain Adaptation leveraging Sequence-to-sequence Transformers. We evaluate CAST using two major crisis-related message classification datasets. Our experiments show that ourCAST-based best run without using any target data achieves the state of the art performance in both in-domain and cross-domain contexts. Moreover, CAST is particularly effective in one-to-one cross-domain adaptation when trained with a larger language model. In many-to-one adaptation where multiple crises are jointly used as the source domain, CAST further improves its performance. In addition, we find that more similar events are more likely to bring better adaptation performance whereas fine-tuning using dissimilar events does not help for adaptation. To aid reproducibility, we open source our code to the community. |
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University College Dublin; University College Dublin; University College Dublin |
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Virginia Tech |
Place of Publication |
Blacksburg, VA (USA) |
Editor |
Anouck Adrot; Rob Grace; Kathleen Moore; Christopher W. Zobel |
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English |
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English |
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978-1-949373-61-5 |
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Social Media for Disaster Response and Resilience |
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Conference |
18th International Conference on Information Systems for Crisis Response and Management |
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wangcongcongcc@gmail.com |
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ISCRAM @ idladmin @ |
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2362 |
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Author |
Cornelius Dold; Christopher Munschauer; Ompe Aimé Mudimu |
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Title |
Real-Life Exercises as a Tool in Security Research and Civil Protection – Options for Data Collections |
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Conference Article |
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2020 |
Publication |
ISCRAM 2020 Conference Proceedings – 17th International Conference on Information Systems for Crisis Response and Management |
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Iscram 2020 |
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244-250 |
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Real-Life Exercises; Data Collection; Emergency Response; Civil Protection; Large-Scale Exercises |
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A real-life exercise is a scientific method used by the TH Köln to generate data sets of new technologies and operational concepts derived from research projects. The Institute of Rescue Engineering and Civil Protection (German acronym: IRG) uses a real-time locating system (RTLS), video surveillance, observers and a mass casualty incident benchmark to generate motion profiles, information flows and information on the quality of care. In this practitioner paper these different methods will be discussed and the combination of different data is described. Furthermore, an outlook is given on the extent to which the method will be improved and expand-ed in the future. Concluding it can be said that the combination of all collected data is essential for the evalua-tion of a real-life exercise in security research or civil protection. |
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TH Köln – University of Applied Sciences, Cologne; TH Köln – University of Applied Sciences, Cologne; TH Köln – University of Applied Sciences, Cologne |
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Virginia Tech |
Place of Publication |
Blacksburg, VA (USA) |
Editor |
Amanda Hughes; Fiona McNeill; Christopher W. Zobel |
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English |
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English |
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978-1-949373-27-24 |
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2411-3410 |
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Analytical Modeling and Simulation |
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Conference |
17th International Conference on Information Systems for Crisis Response and Management |
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cornelius.dold@th-koeln.de |
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2225 |
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Author |
Erman Coskun; Dilek Ozceylan |
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Title |
Complexity in emergency management and disaster response information systems (EMDRIS) |
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2011 |
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8th International Conference on Information Systems for Crisis Response and Management: From Early-Warning Systems to Preparedness and Training, ISCRAM 2011 |
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ISCRAM 2011 |
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Civil defense; Decision making; Disasters; Risk management; Complexity; Disaster response systems; Emergency management; Emergency responders; Emergency response; Emergency situation; Information systems and technologies; Systems complexity; Emergency services |
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Today emergencies seem more complex than ever. Process of managing these emergencies also becomes more complex because of increasing number of involved parties, increasing number of people affected, and increasing amount of resources. This complexity, inherent in emergency management, brings lots of challenges to decision makers and emergency responders. Information systems and technologies are utilized in different areas of emergency management. However complexity increases exponentially in emergency situations and it requires more sophisticated IS and IT and it makes response and management more challenging. Thus analyzing the root causes of emergency management information systems complexity is crucial for improving emergency response effectiveness. This paper frames the issue of information systems complexity by focusing on the types of complexities involved in emergency management phases and explaining each complexity type. We propose 6 different complexity types: Human Complexity, Technologic Complexity, Event Complexity, Interaction Complexity, Decision Making Complexity, and Cultural Complexity. |
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Sakarya University, Turkey |
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Information Systems for Crisis Response and Management, ISCRAM |
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Lisbon |
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M.A. Santos, L. Sousa, E. Portela |
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English |
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English |
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2411-3387 |
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9789724922478 |
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Advanced Research Methods and Unconventional Results |
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8th International ISCRAM Conference on Information Systems for Crisis Response and Management |
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415 |
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Cossentino, M.; Guastella, D.A.; Lopes, S.; Sabatucci, L. |
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Title |
Adaptive Execution of Workflows in Emergency Response |
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2023 |
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Proceedings of the 20th International ISCRAM Conference |
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Iscram 2023 |
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784-796 |
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Emergency Management; Disaster Response; Adaptive Workflow Execution; Standard Operating Procedure (SOP) |
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In emergencies, preparation is of paramount importance but it is not sufficient. As we know, emergency agencies develop extensive (text) plans to deal with accidents that could occur in their territories; their personnel train to enact such procedures, but, despite that, the unpredictable conditions that occur during an emergency require the ability to adapt the plan promptly. This paper deals with the last mile of a process we defined for enabling the adaptive execution of such emergency plans. In previous works, we discussed how to convert a free-text plan into a structured-text form, represent this plan using standard modelling notations, and extract goals that plans prescribe to be fulfilled. In this paper, we propose an approach for executing these plans with a workflow execution engine enriched by the capability to support runtime adaptation. |
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National Research Council of Italy (CNR); Machine Learning Group Université Libre de Bruxelles; National Research Council of Italy (CNR); National Research Council of Italy (CNR) |
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University of Nebraska at Omaha |
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Omaha, USA |
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Jaziar Radianti; Ioannis Dokas; Nicolas Lalone; Deepak Khazanchi |
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English |
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Series Editor |
Hosssein Baharmand |
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Series Issue |
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Edition |
1 |
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Applications, Tools, and Components for Crisis Management |
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http://dx.doi.org/10.59297/ZOZS6664 |
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ISCRAM @ idladmin @ |
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2566 |
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