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Article: Alert based disaster notification and resource allocation
Title | Alert based disaster notification and resource allocation | ||||||||||||||||||
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Keywords | Alert management Disaster management Epidemic outbreak Notification Resource allocation | ||||||||||||||||||
Issue Date | 2010 | ||||||||||||||||||
Publisher | Springer New York LLC. The Journal's web site is located at http://springerlink.metapress.com/openurl.asp?genre=journal&issn=1387-3326 | ||||||||||||||||||
Citation | Information Systems Frontiers, 2010, v. 12 n. 1, p. 29-47 How to Cite? | ||||||||||||||||||
Abstract | When a disaster occurs, timely actions in response to urgent requests conveyed by critical messages (known as alerts) constitute a vital key to effectiveness. These actions include notifying potentially affected parties so that they can take precautionary measures, gathering additional information, and requesting remedial actions and resource allocation. However, there are different types of disasters such as epidemic outbreaks, natural disasters, major accidents, and terrorist attacks. At the same time, there are also many different parties involved such as governments, healthcare institutions, businesses, and individuals. To address these problems, we introduce a Disaster Notification and Resource Allocation System (DNRAS) based on an Alert Management System (AMS) implemented through Web services. This unified platform supports timely interactions among various parties, focusing on notification and monitoring, resource enquiry and allocation, as well as the mobility of information. We detail the mechanisms of these functions in our system, illustrating the Web services interface parameters for communications and interoperability. We illustrate the applicability of our approach with an example of an epidemic outbreak and discuss the advantage of our approach with respect to various stakeholders of our system. © 2009 Springer Science+Business Media, LLC. | ||||||||||||||||||
Persistent Identifier | http://hdl.handle.net/10722/129419 | ||||||||||||||||||
ISSN | 2023 Impact Factor: 6.9 2023 SCImago Journal Rankings: 1.577 | ||||||||||||||||||
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Funding Information: This paper is partially supported by the National Natural Science Foundation of China under Grant No. 60873022, the Natural Science Foundation of Zhejiang Province of China under Grant No. Y1080148, the key Program of Science and Technology of Zhejiang Province under Grant No. 2008C13082, 2008C23034, the Open Project of Zhejiang Provincial Key Laboratory of Information Network Technology of China, the Open Fund provided by State Key Laboratory for Novel Software Technology of Nanjing University, the Science Fund for Young Scholars in Zhejiang Gongshang University, a UGC GRF Grant (No. 717708) from the Hong Kong SAR Government, and a Seeding Funding for Basic Research (200711159052) from The University of Hong Kong. | ||||||||||||||||||
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dc.contributor.author | Chiu, DKW | en_HK |
dc.contributor.author | Lin, DTT | en_HK |
dc.contributor.author | Kafeza, E | en_HK |
dc.contributor.author | Wang, M | en_HK |
dc.contributor.author | Hu, H | en_HK |
dc.contributor.author | Hu, H | en_HK |
dc.contributor.author | Zhuang, Y | en_HK |
dc.date.accessioned | 2010-12-23T08:36:57Z | - |
dc.date.available | 2010-12-23T08:36:57Z | - |
dc.date.issued | 2010 | en_HK |
dc.identifier.citation | Information Systems Frontiers, 2010, v. 12 n. 1, p. 29-47 | en_HK |
dc.identifier.issn | 1387-3326 | en_HK |
dc.identifier.uri | http://hdl.handle.net/10722/129419 | - |
dc.description.abstract | When a disaster occurs, timely actions in response to urgent requests conveyed by critical messages (known as alerts) constitute a vital key to effectiveness. These actions include notifying potentially affected parties so that they can take precautionary measures, gathering additional information, and requesting remedial actions and resource allocation. However, there are different types of disasters such as epidemic outbreaks, natural disasters, major accidents, and terrorist attacks. At the same time, there are also many different parties involved such as governments, healthcare institutions, businesses, and individuals. To address these problems, we introduce a Disaster Notification and Resource Allocation System (DNRAS) based on an Alert Management System (AMS) implemented through Web services. This unified platform supports timely interactions among various parties, focusing on notification and monitoring, resource enquiry and allocation, as well as the mobility of information. We detail the mechanisms of these functions in our system, illustrating the Web services interface parameters for communications and interoperability. We illustrate the applicability of our approach with an example of an epidemic outbreak and discuss the advantage of our approach with respect to various stakeholders of our system. © 2009 Springer Science+Business Media, LLC. | en_HK |
dc.language | eng | en_US |
dc.publisher | Springer New York LLC. The Journal's web site is located at http://springerlink.metapress.com/openurl.asp?genre=journal&issn=1387-3326 | en_HK |
dc.relation.ispartof | Information Systems Frontiers | en_HK |
dc.rights | The original publication is available at www.springerlink.com | - |
dc.subject | Alert management | en_HK |
dc.subject | Disaster management | en_HK |
dc.subject | Epidemic outbreak | en_HK |
dc.subject | Notification | en_HK |
dc.subject | Resource allocation | en_HK |
dc.title | Alert based disaster notification and resource allocation | en_HK |
dc.type | Article | en_HK |
dc.identifier.openurl | http://library.hku.hk:4550/resserv?sid=HKU:IR&issn=1387-3326&volume=12&issue=1&spage=29&epage=47&date=2010&atitle=Alert+Based+Disaster+Notification+and+Resource+Allocation | en_US |
dc.identifier.email | Wang, M: magwang@hku.hk | en_HK |
dc.identifier.authority | Wang, M=rp00967 | en_HK |
dc.description.nature | postprint | - |
dc.identifier.doi | 10.1007/s10796-009-9165-0 | en_HK |
dc.identifier.scopus | eid_2-s2.0-76649137256 | en_HK |
dc.identifier.hkuros | 177138 | en_US |
dc.relation.references | http://www.scopus.com/mlt/select.url?eid=2-s2.0-76649137256&selection=ref&src=s&origin=recordpage | en_HK |
dc.identifier.volume | 12 | en_HK |
dc.identifier.issue | 1 | en_HK |
dc.identifier.spage | 29 | en_HK |
dc.identifier.epage | 47 | en_HK |
dc.identifier.isi | WOS:000274385800003 | - |
dc.publisher.place | United States | en_HK |
dc.relation.project | Supporting Knowledge-Based Navigation in e-Learning Systems | - |
dc.identifier.scopusauthorid | Chiu, DKW=25652944900 | en_HK |
dc.identifier.scopusauthorid | Lin, DTT=24724618000 | en_HK |
dc.identifier.scopusauthorid | Kafeza, E=6603476280 | en_HK |
dc.identifier.scopusauthorid | Wang, M=8723779700 | en_HK |
dc.identifier.scopusauthorid | Hu, H=11738793600 | en_HK |
dc.identifier.scopusauthorid | Hu, H=8940621400 | en_HK |
dc.identifier.scopusauthorid | Zhuang, Y=7202294580 | en_HK |
dc.identifier.citeulike | 4205054 | - |
dc.identifier.issnl | 1387-3326 | - |