Intelligent and communicating real-time diagnostics for the fight against the Fire Compartments.

This results aims to improve the effectiveness of security systems by optimizing the interaction between technological components and organizational and human intervention. Objectives are to determine the specific laws governing indoor fire phenomena by means of experimental full-scale and numerical approaches, to get real-time information about the fire during operations. A second phase consists in a transformation of the usual passive-safety systems into intelligent and communicating systems, thereby optimizing and securing the human and organizational emergency response. The dual competence numerical /experimental data is essential in this type of study since the experimental data suffer from a lack of resolution (spatial, temporal) but nevertheless represent information necessary for validating the codes.

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SU-E-I-89: Real-Time Information and Decision Support for Radiological Emergency Response

Medical Physics ◽

10.1118/1.4814200 ◽

2013 ◽

Vol 40 (6Part6) ◽

pp. 146-146

Author(s):

E Lee ◽

F Pietz

Keyword(s):

Decision Support ◽

Real Time ◽

Emergency Response ◽

Radiological Emergency ◽

Radiological Emergency Response ◽

Real Time Information ◽

Time Information

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Improving Emergency Response Systems Through the Use of Intelligent Information Systems

International Journal of Intelligent Information Technologies ◽

10.4018/ijiit.2014040103 ◽

2014 ◽

Vol 10 (2) ◽

pp. 37-55 ◽

Cited By ~ 3

Author(s):

Tagelsir Mohamed Gasmelseid

Keyword(s):

Information Systems ◽

Real Time ◽

Emergency Response ◽

Information Acquisition ◽

Healthcare Organizations ◽

Distributed Information ◽

Response Information ◽

Technological Developments ◽

Real Time Information ◽

Time Information

The shifts experienced in the environment of disaster operations and emergency response are reshaping the context of information acquisition and utilization in hospitals. In addition to the formulation of emergency response plans, healthcare organizations (especially hospitals) are being challenged by the growing need to maintain and share real time information necessary for the improvement of emergency response processes. Such information-related attention originates from many emergency-specific concerns including the limited focus of current emergency response information systems, decision limitations that challenge the formulation of decision support applications and the characterization of user requirements, the heterogeneity of emergency response information and the difficulty of integrating spatially distributed information sources. The increased attention in emergency response information also emerges from the recent technological developments (in terms of hardware, software functionalities, databases and telecommunication, among others) which significantly affected the processing, storage and retrieval of real time information. This paper focuses on the examination of the context of emergency response in Al Ahsaa area of Saudi Arabia and the applicability of multi-agent information systems through the proposal of an integrated architecture. Then it sheds light on the implementation concerns to ensure the contribution of the proposed architecture towards the engagement of stakeholders, the improvement of the availability and accessibility of emergency management information and the harmonization of emergency response operations. .

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