This chapter is a conceptual writing speaking about various Decision Support Systems
(DSS) available for emergency management and provides a new perspective that is based …

With the frequent occurrence of emergency incidents in recent years, developing intelligent
and effective decision support systems for emergency response and management is getting …

In order to protect human lives and infrastructure, as well as to minimize the risk of damage,
it is important to predict and respond to natural disasters in advance. However, currently, the …

Emergency situations (disasters) occur regularly, and they present a vast risk for human
lives and infrastructures. Reactions to disasters can vary depending upon the availability of …

According to geographical statistics, 54% of the land in India is vulnerable to earthquakes,
and several populous regions fall under Zone 4 or 5 in levels of seismicity. It is believed that …

Managing natural disasters is a social responsibility as they might cause a gloomy impact on
human life. Efficient and timely alert systems for public and actionable recommendations for …

This book is an attempt to establish in the readers the importance of creating interoperable
data stores and writing rules for handling this data. It also covers extracts from a few project …

Abstract A Mobile-Based Ontology Integrated Decision Support System was built in an effort
to improve the transparency in disaster situations. Using hypothetical chemical hazard …

Ontologies provide a machine-processable description of entities and their properties,
relationships and constraints, thus they can depict the semantics of disaster situations and …

There is a critical need to develop a mobile-based emergency response system (MERS) to
help reduce risks in emergency situations. Existing systems only provide short message …