Atlantis Press Paper Details: Situation Assessment in Disaster Management

We present a framework for decision-making in relation to disaster management with a focus on situation assessment during disaster management monitoring. The use of causality reasoning based on the temporal evolution of a scenario provides a natural way to chain meaningful events and possible states of the system. There are usually different ways to analyse a problem and different strategies to follow as a solution and it is also often the case that information originating in different sources can be inconsistent or unreliable. Therefore we allow the specification of possibly conflicting situations as they are typical elements in disaster management. A decision procedure to decide on those conflicting situations is presented which not only provides a frame-work for the assistance of one decision-maker but also how to handle opinions from a hierarchy of decision-makers.

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title:		Situation Assessment in Disaster Management
publication:		IJCIS
volume-issue:		1 - 3
pages:		237 - 247
ISSN:		1875-6883
DOI:		doi:10.2991/ijcis.2008.1.3.5 (how to use a DOI)
author(s):		Juan Carlos Augusto, Hui Wang, Jun Liu
publication date:		August 2008
abstract:		We present a framework for decision-making in relation to disaster management with a focus on situation assessment during disaster management monitoring. The use of causality reasoning based on the temporal evolution of a scenario provides a natural way to chain meaningful events and possible states of the system. There are usually different ways to analyse a problem and different strategies to follow as a solution and it is also often the case that information originating in different sources can be inconsistent or unreliable. Therefore we allow the specification of possibly conflicting situations as they are typical elements in disaster management. A decision procedure to decide on those conflicting situations is presented which not only provides a frame-work for the assistance of one decision-maker but also how to handle opinions from a hierarchy of decision-makers.
copyright:		© Atlantis Press. This article is distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits non-commercial use, distribution and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.
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