Creating a family of collaborative applications for emergency management in the firefighting sub-domain

Rossel, Pedro O.; Herskovic, Valeria; Ormeño, Erika

doi:10.1007/s10796-015-9575-0

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“…An integrated model that captures the interactions between operations of multiple 2 Literature review Table 1 summarizes the detailed specifications of some of the most recent related research in the field of emergency disaster management. To coordinate relief organizations, various structures (Raju & Becker, 2013;Raju & Niekerk, 2013), mechanisms (Balcik et al, 2010), and information technology-based platforms have been developed (Rossel et al, 2016;Poblet et al, 2017;Li et al, 2014). Balcik et al (2010), Schulz and Blecken (2010), Ozdamar and Ertem (2014), Caunhye et al (2012), and Altay and Green (2006) widely surveyed the existing literature regarding humanitarian disaster management.…”

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Robust Platelet Logistics Planning in Disaster Relief Operations Under Uncertainty: a Coordinated Approach

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Abstract:Resource sharing, as a coordination mechanism, can mitigate disruptions in supply and changes in demand. It is particularly crucial for platelets because they have a short lifespan and need to be transferred and allocated within a limited time to prevent waste or shortages. Thus, a coordinated model comprised of a mixed vertical-horizontal structure, for the logistics of platelets, is proposed for disaster relief operations in the response phase. The aim of this research is to reduce the wastage and shortage of platelets due to their critical role in wound healing. We present a biobjective location-allocation robust possibilistic programming model for designing a two-layer coordinated organization strategy for multi-type blood-derived platelets under demand uncertainty. Computational results, derived using a heuristic -constraint algorithm, are reported and discussed to show the applicability of the proposed model. The experimental results indicate that surpluses and shortages in platelets remarkably declined following instigation of a coordinated disaster relief operation.

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Robust Platelet Logistics Planning in Disaster Relief Operations Under Uncertainty: a Coordinated Approach

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“…Basic ERIS require the manual input of data by the user [11,14]. Advanced systems partly automate this data input and capture real-time information from different sensors like GPS-positions of units or water tank levels [24,29]. ERIS of the highest stage even automate parts of the decision-making by calculating recommendations and proposing them to the commander [3,33].…”

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Which Factors Govern the Use of Emergency Response Information Systems? Insights from an Ethnographical Study of a Voluntary Fire Department

Weidinger¹,

Schlauderer²,

Overhage³

2022

Proceedings of the Annual Hawaii International Conference on System Sciences

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To realize the digitalization potential of emergency response processes, several information technologies have been proposed that shall support firefighters in their operations. In the incident command process, especially emergency response information systems (ERIS) are supposed to raise the situation awareness and overall efficacy. Despite their theoretical potential, these technologies only slowly disseminate in practice, however. While extant acceptance models can basically explain firefighters' intention to use them, the actual usage so far remained unexplored. To gain an in-depth understanding of the specific domain and its influence on the usage of technologies, we ethnographically observed a voluntary fire department over several years. During its digitalization of command processes, we identified operational specialties like flexibility, organizational requirements like error culture, and social aspects like perceived importance that influence the introduction of an ERIS. These factors shall enrich existing acceptance models and help to better consider the special characteristics of the firefighter domain.

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“…For instance, in the context of emergency response on the part of firefighting brigades, smartphone applications with embedded collaborative features have been demonstrated successful in supplying role-specific information independent of time and place that affords collaboration (Rossel et al 2016). The decision-making has thus become more efficient in such contexts.…”

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Decision-Making in the Police Work Force: Affordances Explained in Practice

Verhulst

Rutkowski

2018

Group Decis Negot

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Studies of decision-making in High Reliability Organizations as supported by Information Technology have mostly pertained to the "cold" context, that is, the planning and briefing tasks that precede intervention. Meanwhile, the degree of elasticity required of High Reliability Teams during critical processes is key to stabilizing team performance and can be enhanced through the use of technology. However, off-the-shelf technologies are often used in organizations without due consideration of their impact on task interdependence and affordance. This article presents the results from a threestep explorative field study that investigated the effects of the imbrication between human (e.g., users) and material (e.g., technology) agencies on the decision-making processes used by a police force. Particularly, we address the impact on the individual, collective, and shared affordances of mobile technology (i.e., smartphone) in terms of the daily work routine of officers on the streets. Teams of police officers were shadowed during their daily work for a period of 80 hours. This article presents the findings in the form of four vignettes. The approach used proved useful for determining the affordance of technology in relation to task interdependence on micro-processes and decision-making.

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Creating a family of collaborative applications for emergency management in the firefighting sub-domain

Cited by 9 publications

References 39 publications

Robust Platelet Logistics Planning in Disaster Relief Operations Under Uncertainty: a Coordinated Approach

Robust Platelet Logistics Planning in Disaster Relief Operations Under Uncertainty: a Coordinated Approach

Which Factors Govern the Use of Emergency Response Information Systems? Insights from an Ethnographical Study of a Voluntary Fire Department

Decision-Making in the Police Work Force: Affordances Explained in Practice

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