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Noteworthy research gap are being perceived on Knowledge Management (KM) in the outlook of Disaster Recovery (DR) in Information Technology (IT) organizations. Preliminary interviews with the organization implied that the organization facing two main challenges in the context of DR, namely (i) DR information hosted in various knowledge repositories, and (ii) lesson learn capturing is being done after...
In dealing with chaotic condition during disasters, speedy and accurate response is an important task. One of critical concerns in disaster situation is the separation of family members because of high people movement in natural disaster evacuation. An important humanitarian action for that situation is tracking refugees so that they can be reunited with their families. We have designed a system for...
Disaster Response Organizations (ROs) must sustain performance during times of disaster, which can be characterized as a ‘mess’ of interrelated problems. This study seeks to understand how coordination performance of response organizations in a disaster environment is assessed through a sound theoretical framework. Dynamic Capabilities Theory is widely used as a theoretical perspective to explain...
Multi-agent System (MAS) formulations have been developed and explored in the past in a variety of domains, ranging from optimization problems to game theory. However, there are certain issues that are common across all the domains. Cooperation and coordination of agents in MAS is one such important area. In this paper, we have first presented a very brief survey characterizing the cooperation and...
Today's society is exposed to an increasing number of disasters and large scale emergencies (e.g. earthquake in Haiti, global swine flu, or manmade disasters like the oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico). Information and communication technology (ICT) can help to prevent and mitigate the effects of threatening situations if applied appropriately. In industry ICT governance methods have become important...
Disaster management and emergency response mechanisms have come of age post 9/11. Undoubtedly the introduction of Information Technology (IT) in emergency response management has been revolutionary from the perspective of better management of the emergency response. However, the various components which make up the IT infrastructure, such as sensors, computers, PDAs, network devices, etc, are inherently...
The following topics are dealt with: controls, robotics and automation; information and communication technology and social transformation; intelligent robots and man-machine co-existence; technical advances in disaster management, welfare, and rehabilitation for sustainability; wired and wireless integration.
Indian railways is one of the busiest rail networks in the whole world. In a single day it runs around 14,500 trains across various terrains covering 63,140 kilometers that transports millions of passengers. It is also participating in a Trans-Asian railway link project. Looking for greater financial success it has deployed information technology in its various commercial activities. However its disaster...
The emerging and enabling geospatial technologies are providing the useful ways to deal with disaster situations and to incorporate these technologies in an interoperable environment is valuable. Urban disaster has increased in recent years as we live in vulnerable society. The geospatial technologies, information technologies, GIS and remote sensing all have their role to play in order to diminish...
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