As our society becomes more complicated, so do the unfortunate events which occur. The importance of developing systems and applications for these crises is critical. The response and management of a crisis is paramount and thus requires innovative research to better understand how to improve our systems.Crisis Response and Management and Emerging Information Systems: Critical Applications provides a comprehensive, cross disciplinary look at the advancing and understanding of organizational, technical, human, and cognitive issues associated with the use of information systems in responding and managing crises of all kinds. This book presents the issues that drive the technologies, processes, methodologies, techniques, and practices used to implement information systems in a variety of ways and in the multi-faceted modern environment that we find ourselves in today. The advancement of these critical applications will benefit from this publication as it provides valuable information for future crisis situations.
Author(s): Murray E. Jennex
Series: Premier Reference Source
Edition: 1
Publisher: Information Science Reference
Year: 2011
Language: English
Pages: 354
Tags: Информатика и вычислительная техника;Информационные технологии;
Title
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Table of Contents......Page 4
Detailed Table of Contents......Page 7
Preface......Page 15
Achieving Agility in Disaster Management......Page 28
The Past as the Future of Emergency Preparedness and Management......Page 39
Only Connect......Page 56
Web-Based Group Decision Support for Crisis Management......Page 68
Incident Command Situation Assessment Utilizing Video Feeds from UAVs......Page 82
When and How (Not) to Trust It?......Page 99
Multilingual Crisis Knowledge Representation......Page 112
Open Infrastructure for a Nationwide Emergency Services Network......Page 123
Resilient Emergency Response......Page 139
Exploring Socio-Technical Design of Crisis Management Information Systems......Page 166
Information Seeking and Retrieval Service for Crisis Response......Page 183
Emergency Messaging to General Public via Public Wireless Networks......Page 215
Knowledge Management in Support of Crisis Response......Page 228
A Unified Localizable Emergency Events Scale......Page 241
Disaster Management and Virtual Globes......Page 254
Strategies to Prepare Emergency Management Personnel to Integrate Geospatial Tools into Emergency Management......Page 272
Initial Requirements of National Crisis Decision Support System......Page 289
Compilation of References......Page 314
About the Contributors......Page 341
Index......Page 350
