The Application of Advanced Knowledge Technologies for Emergency Response

Potter, Stephen and Kalfoglou, Yannis and Alani, Harith and Bachler, Michelle and Buckingham Shum, Simon and Carvalho, Rodrigo and Chakravarthy, Ajay and Chalmers, Stuart and Chapman, Sam and Hu, Bo and Preece, Alun and Shadbolt, Nigel and Tate, Austin and Tuffield, Mischa (2007) The Application of Advanced Knowledge Technologies for Emergency Response. In Proceedings 4th International Information Systems for Crisis Response and Management (ISCRAM 07) Conference, Delft, The Netherlands.

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Making sense of the current state of an emergency and of the response to it is vital if appropriate decisions are to be made. This task involves the acquisition, interpretation and management of information. In this paper we present an integrated system that applies recent ideas and technologies from the fields of Artificial Intelligence and semantic web research to support sense- and decision-making at the tactical response level, and demonstrate it with reference to a hypothetical large-scale emergency scenario. We offer no end-user evaluation of this system; rather, we intend that it should serve as a visionary demonstration of the potential of these technologies for emergency response.

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