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Using Ontological Information to Enhance Responder Availability in Emergency Response

Paul Ngo, Duminda Wijesekera
2010 Semantic Technologies for Intelligence, Defense, and Security  
We show by example how the ontological enhancements can be used to enhance availability of emergency personnel in case of a need.  ...  To ensure that messages are delivered in a timely manner, we propose some role and task based ontological enhancements for these languages.  ...  In this paper, we enhance CAP by adding necessary elements into the CAP schema to enhance reaching the responders in an emergency.  ... 
dblp:conf/stids/NgoW10 fatcat:6u634v3qx5d5hcsfxkp4mowfpa

Managing Knowledge For ESAR: An Ontology-Based Approach

Murali Raman, Saravanan Muthaiyah, Murray E. Jennex
2011 Review of Business Information Systems (RBIS)  
This paper examines the role and relevance of knowledge management ideals (using an ontology based approach) in support of crisis response, in general, and ESAR, in particular.  ...  Most organizations face difficult challenges in managing knowledge for crisis response, particularly in the context of emergency search and rescue (ESAR) initiatives.  ...  CRISIS RESPONSE AND ONTOLOGY -WHY IS KM RELEVANT? Crisis Response Systems are used by organizations to assist in responding to a crisis situation.  ... 
doi:10.19030/rbis.v13i3.4321 fatcat:lfxgwm7zvfeexm6h24eio3lzoe

Platform Design of Collaborative Emergency Management Using Big Data

Yanxin Wang, Minfang Huang
2017 Innovative Computing Information and Control Express Letters, Part B: Applications  
Above all, the platform it proposed can enable EM to utilize information both from organizations and personal citizens, which means the data sources in EM will be expanded from official data to social  ...  The purpose of this paper is to illustrate the structure, process, interoperability, and tools for the realization of the collaborative emergency management (EM) platform using big data.  ...  Using big data, the effective responses in such situations are reliant on the availability of archived information.  ... 
doi:10.24507/icicelb.08.03.665 fatcat:saack4bilzd5ldj6amekrjcdo4

Performance Information Systems to Improve Rural Mobile Emergency Medical Services

Thomas A. Horan, Ugur Kaplancali, Benjamin L. Schooley, Richard J. Burkhard, Denise McCabe
2004 Americas Conference on Information Systems  
In this study, a multi-method analysis was conducted around an embedded case study in rural Minnesota to better understand and evaluate end-to-end performance of emergency response under normal and crisis  ...  Researchers used field interviews and agency data to develop an ontological knowledgebase for EMS data and then used this factual ontology to test end-to-end performance through a simulation software called  ...  This research provides a step towards explicating "end-to-end" assumptions into a bonafide information system that can be used to monitor, plan and simulate performance.  ... 
dblp:conf/amcis/HoranKSBM04 fatcat:45kbrpoxpbemnpcvvicl45ez2u

Dynamic Evacuation Architecture using Context-Aware Policy Management

Ulrich Hofmann, Armin Veichtlbauer, Ilka Miloucheva
2009 International Journal of Computer Science and Applications  
In recent years, there is an increasing number of communication systems and intelligent tools supporting first responders and evacuees in the tasks of communication, decision-making, information exchange  ...  Design of intelligent policy management facilities for crisis and emergency scenarios are discussed considering enhancements of ontology based autonomous policy management prototype.  ...  An example for enhanced policy management in crisis situation is to give responders access to additional information in emergency locations enhancing their normal operating environments.  ... 
dblp:journals/ijcsa/HofmannVM09 fatcat:qps4nwzsqzb3bm2ecvcttefcxm

Ontology-based technologies for disaster preparedness, response and recovery

Panagiota Masa, Georgios Tzanetis, Spyridon Kintzios, Georgios Meditskos, Stefanos Vrochidis, Iosif Vourvachis, Lorenzo Nerantzis, Ioannis Kompatsiaris
2022 Zenodo  
This paper proposes the use of ontology-based technologies for disaster preparedness, response and recovery to ensure effectiveness.  ...  Innovative semantic structures that have been used in relevant EU projects are explored and adapted in the respective framework.  ...  The proposed semantic framework and the respective domain ontology aim to enhance the management of all incoming information from various sources that will support authorities and first responders in addressing  ... 
doi:10.5281/zenodo.7756178 fatcat:evgqed64gvcpnemljztmlpvmmm

Knowledge Modelling Framework - Towards User-Centered Medical Services Delivery In The Emergency Context

Julia Kantorovitch, Aggeliki Giakoumaki, Antonis Korakis, Homer Papadopoulos, Georgios Milis, Panayiotis Kolios, Toni Staykova
2016 Zenodo  
The EDXL-based group of standards is the most complete approach to address emergency information sharing and data exchange across various actors involved in the process of disaster management.  ...  Therefore, it is selected as the central basis of knowledge models to utilise and extend with semantic information models towards enhanced knowledge-level interoperability and more efficient decision making  ...  ACKNOWLEDGMENT This research is co-funded by the European Commission 7 th Framework ICT Research Programme, in the context of COnCORDE project (607814).  ... 
doi:10.5281/zenodo.1012304 fatcat:by44zxnjz5alxec3cgd3x7of2e

Ontologies for location based services quality enhancement: the case of emergency services

Linda Mhadhb, Jalel Akaichi, Mohamed Hedi Karray, Bernard Archimde
2015 2015 Second International Conference on eDemocracy & eGovernment (ICEDEG)  
To overcome the emergency management limits of nowadays, this paper propose a medical assistance system based on ontologies that manage and exploit the large and rapidly growing volume of medical data  ...  , services, staff etc.) and whether these resources are available to fulfill the patient needs.  ...  In order to enhance decision-making and facilitate the task of the mobile physician, it is useful to query our ontologies.  ... 
doi:10.1109/icedeg.2015.7114469 fatcat:ws3lhkkxszep3m4vnbyzi32bni

Enhancing Data and Processes Integration and Interoperability in Emergency Situations: a SWS based Emergency Management System

Alessio Gugliotta, Rob Davies, Leticia Gutiérrez-Villarías, Vlad Tanasescu, John Domingue, Mary Rowlatt, Marc Richardson, Sandra Stincic
2006 International Semantic Web Conference  
In this way, our prototype contributes to better management of emergency situations by those responsible.  ...  In this paper we describe a powerful use case application in the area of emergency situations management in which to illustrate the benefits of a system based on Semantic Web Services (SWS), through the  ...  This should improve the quality of the information available to emergency managers in all the phases of emergency management: before (planning), during (response), and after (evaluation and analysis);  ... 
dblp:conf/semweb/GugliottaDGTDRRS06 fatcat:2cmpjdf5qvgt7ayqdgh2etibdu

An Ontology-Based Framework for Real-Time Collection and Visualization of Mobile Field Triage Data in Mass Gatherings

Prem Prakash Jayaraman, Kutila Gunasekera, Frada Burstein, Pari Delir Haghighi, Harris Sebastian Soetikno, Arkady Zaslavsky
2013 2013 46th Hawaii International Conference on System Sciences  
A key factor in successful management of mass gatherings is the availability of real-time data about the situation.  ...  Further, we demonstrate the capability of the proposed framework to visualize triage data on a map in real time. 1 A command center is any place that is used to provide centralized command for some purpose  ...  Peter Serwylo for contribution to the earlier drafts of this paper.  ... 
doi:10.1109/hicss.2013.92 dblp:conf/hicss/JayaramanGBHSZ13 fatcat:q4fvhxmejjaireskumz5od64ya

Editorial: Applied knowledge management in an institutional context

2009 Knowledge Management & E-Learning: An International Journal  
Subsequently we examine two emerging areas in which KM in the context of its application is becoming vital – (i) in the area of ontology-based organizational memory and (ii) in the area of disaster management  ...  This special issue aims to stimulate the investigation on the applications of KM principles, ideas and systems within an institutional context.  ...  Emerging Area 2 -Crisis Response Crisis Response Systems are used by organizations to assist in responding to a crisis situation.  ... 
doi:10.34105/j.kmel.2009.01.007 fatcat:w3jssixb4nbg3l47bhujb3yvfu

The Role of Artificial Intelligence Technologies in Crisis Response [article]

Khaled M. Khalil, M. Abdel-Aziz, Taymour T. Nazmy, Abdel-Badeeh M. Salem
2008 arXiv   pre-print
available to handle routine problems.  ...  Crisis response poses many of the most difficult information technology in crisis management.  ...  Ontologies and semantic web are adopted to solve integrating problems, for example ontologies are used in integrating heterogeneous information sources and semantic web services are used to provide customized  ... 
arXiv:0806.1280v1 fatcat:hf2eahe3dba4rpoljtuuqj6xwe

Situation Representation and Awareness for Rescue Operations

Samer Cheade, Matta Nada, Jean-Baptiste Pothin, Rémi Cogranne
2019 International Conference on Information Systems for Crisis Response and Management  
This work aims to support situation awareness amongst actors participating in rescue operations by adopting an ontology-based approach.  ...  After that, a knowledge-based system will be developed and integrated in actors' environment to support decision-making. Our preliminary results are shown in this paper.  ...  ., 2011) developed a system for enhancing shared and team situation awareness in emergency management domain by using ontologies.  ... 
dblp:conf/iscram/CheadeNPC19 fatcat:c6spa5thqne47hqaukek34yj2m

An Ontological Approach to Enhancing Information Sharing in Disaster Response

Linda Elmhadhbi, Mohamed-Hedi Karray, Bernard Archimède, J. Neil Otte, Barry Smith
2021 Information  
In particular, the different terminologies and technical vocabularies that are being exchanged among Emergency Responders (ERs) may lead to misunderstandings.  ...  We conclude by presenting a real use-case to check the efficiency and applicability of the proposed ontology.  ...  while responding to an emergency via radio.  ... 
doi:10.3390/info12100432 fatcat:aet4dkfymbajdo3f7tjnk32e4y

Context-Aware Emergency Messaging System Framework Utilizing Social Relations as Services

Regin Cabacas, Ravi Sankar, In-Ho Ra
2014 International Journal of Multimedia and Ubiquitous Engineering  
This paper aims to provide a framework for emergency messaging systems using context information and social relations as services.  ...  With this opportunity, we proposed an approach that utilizes important context information to provide accurate and fast response to an occurring emergency.  ...  Moreover, in the development of richer applications, this information can be used to enhance query-service systems especially during emergency situations.  ... 
doi:10.14257/ijmue.2014.9.2.08 fatcat:hxikqjl7qfehrb3djstwdc4x5a
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