A Reliable Crisis Information System to Share Data after the Event of a Large-Scale Disaster

Crisis information systems have reliability as a key technical concern to be guaranteed, given the critical role of information sharing in crisis management. However, a common agreement is missing about the requirements to be satisfied. Moreover, scarce details are provided to describe the means to apply in order to satisfy the reliability requirements and/or to tolerate the faults that may affect a crisis information system. The scope of this paper is to determine the requirements to be satisfied in order to provide reliability, to survey the available literature and practice on this topic, and to propose an innovative solution for reliable crisis information systems in the context of the platform under development within the EU-funded DESTRIERO project.