&lt;title&gt;Project rescue: challenges in responding to the unexpected&lt;/title&gt;

Mehrotra, Sharad; Butts, Carter T.; Kalashnikov, Dmitri V.; Venkatasubramanian, Nalini; Rao, Ramesh R.; Chockalingam, Ganz; Eguchi, Ronald T.; Adams, Beverley J.; Huyck, Charles

doi:10.1117/12.537805

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“…Lack of a comprehensive understanding of the fire's environment might influence responders' ability and confidence, and may cause them to take wrong actions or make wrong decisions in their response operations. There is a great deal of existing literature (Jiang et al 2004a;Carver and Turoff 2007;Yang et al 2009a, b;Turoff et al 2004;Mehrotra et al 2004;Upadhyay et al 2009) concerning the use of information systems by fire fighters to perform fire-fighting training, drilling, and on-site operations. Such systems are also known as information platforms, and normally present information to the fire fighters based on a virtual environment developed using real information about the buildings.…”

Section: Why Was An Information Platformmentioning

confidence: 99%

“…To establish the information platform taking account of the above features, there were a wide number of challenges that needed to be addressed (Jiang et al 2004b, Carver and Turoff 2007, Mehrotra et al 2004, Upadhyay et al 2009, and Yang et al 2009b). These are often categorized into technological, sociological, and organizational perspectives (Manoj and Baker 2007).…”

Section: Why Was An Information Platformmentioning

confidence: 99%

“…An online desktop Geographic Information System (GIS) (Mehrotra et al 2004), which has been widely used by emergency management agencies to create maps that help coordinate response and recovery efforts, was employed in the integrated information platform for the Beijing Olympics. The visualization in this integrated information platform followed the situation-awareness oriented design principle (i.e., the perception-comprehension-projection model).…”

Section: Principle 4: Component-based Design Andmentioning

confidence: 99%

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Design Principles of Integrated Information Platform for Emergency Responses: The Case of 2008 Beijing Olympic Games

Yang

Yuan

2012

Information Systems Research

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T his paper investigates the challenges faced in designing an integrated information platform for emergency response management and uses the Beijing Olympic Games as a case study. The research methods are grounded in action research, participatory design, and situation-awareness oriented design. The completion of a more than two-year industrial secondment and six-month field studies ensured that a full understanding of user requirements had been obtained. A service-centered architecture was proposed to satisfy these user requirements. The proposed architecture consists mainly of information gathering, database management, and decision support services. The decision support services include situational overview, instant risk assessment, emergency response preplan, and disaster development prediction. Abstracting from the experience obtained while building this system, we outline a set of design principles in the general domain of information systems (IS) development for emergency management. These design principles form a contribution to the information systems literature because they provide guidance to developers who are aiming to support emergency response and the development of such systems that have not yet been adequately met by any existing types of IS. We are proud that the information platform developed was deployed in the real world and used in the 2008 Beijing Olympic Games.

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Section: Why Was An Information Platformmentioning

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Section: Principle 4: Component-based Design Andmentioning

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Design Principles of Integrated Information Platform for Emergency Responses: The Case of 2008 Beijing Olympic Games

Yang

Yuan

2012

Information Systems Research

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“…The work of Mehrotra (Mehrotra et al, 2004) is the closest approach with respect to our methodology. That work presents an interesting approach, but it focuses mostly on textual data and spatial-temporal information, rather than on more kinds of complex data, such as images.…”

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On the Support of a Similarity-enabled Relational Database Management System in Civilian Crisis Situations

Oliveira

Fraideinberze

Laverde

et al. 2016

Proceedings of the 18th International Conference on Enterprise Information Systems

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Abstract:Crowdsourcing solutions can be helpful to extract information from disaster-related data during crisis management. However, certain information can only be obtained through similarity operations. Some of them also depend on additional data stored in a Relational Database Management System (RDBMS). In this context, several works focus on crisis management supported by data. Nevertheless, none of them provide a methodology for employing a similarity-enabled RDBMS in disaster-relief tasks. To fill this gap, we introduce a methodology together with the Data-Centric Crisis Management (DCCM) architecture, which employs our methods over a similarity-enabled RDBMS. We evaluate our proposal through three tasks: classification of incoming data regarding current events, identifying relevant information to guide rescue teams; filtering of incoming data, enhancing the decision support by removing near-duplicate data; and similarity retrieval of historical data, supporting analytical comprehension of the crisis context. To make it possible, similarity-based operations were implemented within one popular, open-source RDBMS. Results using real data from Flickr show that our proposal is feasible for real-time applications. In addition to high performance, accurate results were obtained with a proper combination of techniques for each task. Hence, we expect our work to provide a framework for further developments on crisis management solutions.

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“…These limitations restrict general statements on the effectiveness of workflow technology in the emergency management domain. At the same time, various developments point at the increasing importance and use of workflow technology in this domain, as illustrated by the RESCUE [45], CITI [46], and AMIRA projects [47]. In addition, the emergency management domain itself may undergo changes, e.g., in the form of increasing resource utilization at local fire stations and by assigning larger incidents to regional fire stations.…”

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Workflow Management Systems + Swarm Intelligence = Dynamic Task Assignment for Emergency Management Applications

Reijers

Jansen-Vullers

Appl

Lecture Notes in Computer Science

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Abstract. The assignment of tasks to human performers is a critical component in people-centric business process management systems. Workflow management systems typically assign work items using strategies that only consider qualified resources. There are, however, situations, where this approach falls short. For instance, in emergency response situations, tasks need to be carried out by resources that are available immediately, even if they do not match all skill requirements. This paper compares the performance of a set of six task assignment mechanisms for workflow applications using a scenario from the emergency management domain. In particular, we develop and simulate assignment strategies inspired by stimulus/response models derived from swarm intelligence, and benchmark these strategies against conventional task assignment strategies. Our findings show that swarm intelligence-based approaches outperform the traditional assignment of tasks in ad-hoc organizations, and that workflow-based emergency management systems could benefit significantly from these novel task assignment strategies.

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<title>Project rescue: challenges in responding to the unexpected</title>

Cited by 54 publications

References 31 publications

Design Principles of Integrated Information Platform for Emergency Responses: The Case of 2008 Beijing Olympic Games

Design Principles of Integrated Information Platform for Emergency Responses: The Case of 2008 Beijing Olympic Games

On the Support of a Similarity-enabled Relational Database Management System in Civilian Crisis Situations

Workflow Management Systems + Swarm Intelligence = Dynamic Task Assignment for Emergency Management Applications

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