Homeland Integration

Towards Semantic Integration of Legacy Databases for Homeland Security

Sharing information between diverse heterogeneous databases and users has become one of the common goals of ontology-based systems (Musen, 1992; Gruber, 1993). Several commercial endeavors have been successful, such as Yahoo! with taxonomies for categorizing websites and Amazon.com for categorizing products, respectively. However, large legacy databases raise many challenges. The data base sche...

Homeland Security

Department of Homeland Security.

This is one of a series of audit, inspection, and special reports prepared as part of our oversight responsibilities to promote economy, efficiency, and effectiveness within the department. This report addresses FEMA's preparedness for the next catastrophic disaster. It is based on interviews with employees and officials of relevant agencies and institutions, direct observations, and a review o...

Mobile GIS for Homeland Security

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Journal Of Homeland Security

Prior to the attack on the USS Cole and the events of 11 September 2001, the U.S. Navy was developing antiterrorism programs to address potential terrorist attacks in a resource-constrained environment. Amid unprecedented tragedy associated with these and other terrorist strikes against U.S. interests, both domestic and abroad, government agencies, the Armed Forces, and private companies have r...