Adaptive Emergency Call Service for Disaster Management

Web-Service Network for Disaster Management

The paper addresses the issue of context-aware operational decision support in emergency situations. A decision support system (DSS) developed for this purpose is implemented as a network of a set of Web-services. The Webservices try to organise a service network according to context. Here the context is proposed to be modelled as a “problem model”. It specifies problems to be solved in a parti...

Forecasting Emergency Medical Service Call Arrival Rates

We introduce a new method for forecasting emergency call arrival rates that combines integer-valued time series models with a dynamic latent factor structure. Covariate information is captured via simple constraints on the factor loadings. We directly model the count-valued arrivals per hour, rather than using an artificial assumption of normality. This is crucial for the emergency medical serv...

Disaster Management and Emergency Medicine in Malaysia

Intelligent System for Urban Emergency Management during Large-Scale Disaster

The frequency and intensity of natural disasters has significantly increased over the past decades and this trend is predicted to continue. Facing these possible and unexpected disasters, urban emergency management has become the especially important issue for the whole governments around the world. In this paper, we present a novel intelligent system for urban emergency management during the l...

Emergency Response Systems for Disaster Management in Buildings

Emergency response operations can benefit from the use of information systems that reduce decision making time and facilitate coordination between the participating units. We propose the use of two such systems and evaluate them with a specialised software platform that we have developed for simulation of disasters in buildings. The first system provides movement decision support to evacuees by...