Alert based disaster notification and resource allocation

Abstract

When a disaster occurs, timely actions in response to urgent requests conveyed by critical messages (known as alerts) constitute a vital key to effectiveness. These actions include notifying potentially affected parties so that they can take precautionary measures, gathering additional information, and requesting remedial actions and resource allocation. However, there are different types of disasters such as epidemic outbreaks, natural disasters, major accidents, and terrorist attacks. At the same time, there are also many different parties involved such as governments, healthcare institutions, businesses, and individuals. To address these problems, we introduce a Disaster Notification and Resource Allocation System (DNRAS) based on an Alert Management System (AMS) implemented through Web services. This unified platform supports timely interactions among various parties, focusing on notification and monitoring, resource enquiry and allocation, as well as the mobility of information. We detail the mechanisms of these functions in our system, illustrating the Web services interface parameters for communications and interoperability. We illustrate the applicability of our approach with an example of an epidemic outbreak and discuss the advantage of our approach with respect to various stakeholders of our system.

Information Communication Technology Use for Public Safety in the United States

“…According to Roeder (2014), the information must be demonstrative of all types of disasters or events. Moreover, researchers examined diversity of ICT relating to communication and discovered a single avenue for public information only increases vulnerability because people need affirmation from several resources (Chiu et al, 2010). This may be due to recent studies showing specific racial and ethnic minorities holding higher degrees of distrust for their local, state, and federal representatives due to previous broken promises or detrimental relationships (Donner and Rodríguez, 2008).…”

“…To address these issues, Fiedrich and Burghardt (2007) researched the deployment of response agencies and promoted improved communication among key personnel, as presented at the First International Workshop on Agent Technology for Disaster Management (Jennings et al, 2006). For example, Buono et al (2008) proposed WIISARD, a Wireless Internet Information System for Medical Response in Disasters, to band broad-based collaboration from all sectors, such as academia, industry, military, and emergency responders, in order to enhance care in a natural disaster or terrorist attack (Chiu et al, 2010). Through utilization of a mesh network, WIISARD enhance communication technologies among emergency responders and improved safety through tracking the "hot zone. "…”

“…Through utilization of a mesh network, WIISARD enhance communication technologies among emergency responders and improved safety through tracking the "hot zone. " This zone is a location where impact of a natural disaster or terrorist attack is centralized and affects the most civilians (Chiu et al, 2010).…”

“…By using eKM, responders and communities are able to quickly gather information from many websites and learn about specific issues. Moreover, the navigation portion of the eKM guides information seekers to the relevant websites depending on search criteria (Chiu et al, 2010).…”

Designing, formalizing, and evaluating a flexible architecture for integrated service delivery: combining event-driven and service-oriented architectures

“…In such networks, services are delivered by forming temporary coalitions of service providers. These coalitions can be different depending on the integrated service that is provided to a client, which requires high levels of flexibility [4]. Furthermore, these networks might change over time as new service providers might enter the network and others might withdraw.…”