A Complex Event Processing Approach for Crisis-Management Systems

In modern advanced emergency management systems many solutions for decision support have been provided as attempts to support humans to take important decisions for the critical situations recovery. The critical situation detection is a complex procedure that involves both human and machine activities and leads to take a decision for the management and situation recovery. This paper presents an approach for critical situation detection which uses event correlation technologies performing online analysis of real events through a Complex Event Processing architecture. Event correlation is used to relate events gathered from various sources, including crowd sensing and crowd sourcing sources, for detecting patterns and situations of interest in the emergency management context. Keywords—information fusion; complex event processing; crowd sensing; crowd sourcing; decision support system; online processing; crisis management