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Social media offers the opportunity to connect with the public, improve situational awareness, and to reach people quickly with alerts, warnings and preparedness messages. However, the ever increasing popularity of social networking can also lead to ‘information overload’ which can prevent disaster management organizations from processing and using social media information effectively. This limitation...
This article is a first step towards bridging the gap between User-centered design and agile principles integration in order to provide service designers/developers with a comprehensive framework to the design, implementation and deployment of SOA based interactive services. This approach is applied to a typical disaster management case study to demonstrate its feasibility.
The intent of the present work is to identify the main challenges and key requirements towards the provision of an integrated framework that supports decision making and collaboration among multiple actors concerned by disaster management (DM). Also, this work highlights the importance of Information and Communication Technologies (ICT) in this field and proposes an IT-based platform to implement...
In a time of increasing number and severity of disasters, local, national, regional, international, continental and global cooperation and coordination are more vital than ever before. Emergency management is the lynchpin on which effective cooperation and coordination depend. By working together, a proactive plan can be formulated for future disaster management activities among the countries. Moreover,...
During the recent years, several advances about smart environments are taking place. The challenge of transforming cities to 'smart' cities aims to combine competitiveness and sustainable urban development simultaneously. This is taking place through the combination of traditional urban environment, governmental and social functions with modern Information and Communication Technologies (ICT) providing...
Collaborations between organizations in the public sector, e.g., fire brigades, polices, military units, is often done via liaison officers. A liaison officer liaises between two organizations by providing a single point of contact and ensuring the efficient communication and coordination of their activities. Usually an organization embeds a liaison officer in another organization to provide face-to-face...
Many-to-many (M-M) role transfers are generalized problems that occur normally in collaboration, management, and the operation of organizations. This paper extends our previous work on role transfer. It is the first attempt to formalize the M-M role-transfer problems with real-world management examples, analyze the different cases of M-M problems, design algorithms for all the cases, implement all...
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