Crisis response & management and emerging information systems critical applications /

"This book provides a comprehensive, cross disciplinary look at the advancing and understanding of organizational, technical, human, and cognitive issues associated with the use of information systems in responding and managing crises of all kinds"--Provided by publisher.

Bibliographic Details
Corporate Author: IGI Global.
Other Authors: Jennex, Murray E., 1956-
Format: Electronic
Language:English
Published: Hershey, Pa. : IGI Global (701 E. Chocolate Avenue, Hershey, Pennsylvania, 17033, USA), c2011.
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246 3 # |a Crisis response and management and emerging information systems 
260 # # |a Hershey, Pa. :  |b IGI Global (701 E. Chocolate Avenue, Hershey, Pennsylvania, 17033, USA),  |c c2011. 
300 # # |a electronic texts (286 p.) :  |b ill., digital files. 
504 # # |a Includes bibliographical references. 
505 0 # |a 1. Achieving agility in disaster management / John R. Harrald -- 2. The past as the future of emergency preparedness and management / Murray Turoff, Starr Roxanne Hiltz, Connie White, Linda Plotnick, Art Hendela and Xiang Yao -- 3. Only connect: problem sciences, information systems and humanitarian reform / Paul Currion -- 4. Web-based group decision support for crisis management / Simon French, Clare Bayley and Nan Zhang -- 5. Incident command situation assessment utilizing video feeds from UAVs: new risks for decision making breakdowns / John McGuirl, Nadine Sarter and David Woods -- 6. When and how (not) to trust it?: supporting virtual emergency teamwork / Monika Büscher, Preben Holst Mogensen and Margit Kristensen -- 7. Multilingual crisis knowledge representation / Aviv Segev -- 8. Open infrastructure for a nationwide emergency services network / Mark Gaynor, Sarah Friedeck, Alan Pearce, Scott Bradner and Ken Post -- 9. Resilient emergency response: supporting flexibility and improvisation in collaborative command and control / Jiri Trnka and Björn J.E. Johansson -- 10. Exploring socio-technical design of crisis management information systems / Dan Harnesk and John Lindström -- 11. Information seeking and retrieval service for crisis response / Nong Chen and Ajantha Dahanayake -- 12. Emergency messaging to general public via public wireless networks / L-F Pau and P. Simonsen -- 13. Knowledge management in support of crisis response / Murray E. Jennex and Murali Raman -- 
505 8 # |a 14. A unified localizable emergency events scale / Eli Rohn and Denis Blackmore -- 15. Disaster management and virtual globes: a high potential for developing countries / Gunter Zeug and Dominik Brunner -- 16. Strategies to prepare emergency management personnel to integrate geospatial tools into emergency management / Tricia Toomey, Eric Frost and Murray E. Jennex -- 17. Initial requirements of national crisis decision support system / Ahmad Kabil and Magdy M. Kabeil. 
506 # # |a Restricted to subscribers or individual electronic text purchasers. 
520 3 # |a "This book provides a comprehensive, cross disciplinary look at the advancing and understanding of organizational, technical, human, and cognitive issues associated with the use of information systems in responding and managing crises of all kinds"--Provided by publisher. 
530 # # |a Also available in print. 
538 # # |a Mode of access: World Wide Web. 
588 # # |a Description based on title screen (IGI Global, viewed June 16, 2011). 
650 # 0 |a Emergency management  |x Information services. 
650 # 0 |a Emergency communication systems. 
653 # # |a Collaborative and intelligent systems 
653 # # |a Communication technologies 
653 # # |a Crisis planning, training, exercising, and gaming 
653 # # |a Data fusion, representation, and visualization 
653 # # |a Early warning systems 
653 # # |a Emergency response systems 
653 # # |a Globalization 
653 # # |a Development issues 
653 # # |a Humanitarian operations 
653 # # |a Information systems strategy 
653 # # |a Knowledge management systems 
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