Social computing in homeland security disaster promulgation and response /
The sequence of major events that occurred after entering the twenty-first century have all pointed to an effective emergency response as one of the most complex challenges many countries now face. This book presents a theoretical framework addressing how to enhance national response capabilities an...
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| Language: | English |
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Hershey, Pa. :
IGI Global (701 E. Chocolate Avenue, Hershey, Pennsylvania, 17033, USA),
c2009.
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| Online Access: | View fulltext via EzAccess |
Table of Contents:
- From Threat Warning to Information Perception and Public Response
- Attention Capture and Effective Warning
- Dynamics of Public Perception and Confidence
- Psychosocial Aspect and Social Dynamics: A Mathematical Modeling Approach
- Psychosocial Effects: A Silent Influence
- Individual Reactions and Psychological Impact
- Disaster Promulgation and Collective Behaviors
- Forming Situation Awareness for First Decisions and Lifesaving
- Situation Awareness through Feature Recognition
- Incident Commander: Toward Effective First Decisions
- Countering Chemical Terrorism: A Digitized Fire Chief Supporting System for Rapid Onsite Responding to HazMat Emergencies
- A Hospital Emergency Support System for Real Time Surveillance Modeling and Effective Response
- Quickly Channeling Crowd Population in Emergency: An Emergency Evacuation Command System
- Enhancing the Resilience of Critical Infrastructure: Border Patrol, Cyber Security and Financial Stability
- Security Inspection Model of Critical Infrastructure
- Weaponizing the Internet and the YouTube War
- Containing Financial Contagion at the Source
- Appendix A: Markov Chain Monte Carlo Algorithms
- Appendix B: Calibration Results for Decision Tree C4.5 and the Probit Model.