Knowledge management support for collaborative emergency response

Author

Diniz, Viviane Barbosa ; Borges, Marcos R S ; Gomes, José Orlando ; Canós, José H.

Author_Institution

Nucleo de Computacao Eletronica & Inst. de Matematica, Univ. Fed. do Rio de Janeiro, Brazil

Volume

2

fYear

2005

fDate

24-26 May 2005

Firstpage

1188

Abstract

An emergency response activity usually involves several teams from different organizations working cooperatively for the purpose of saving lives or properties. These teams have to make many decisions under time pressure to accomplish their goals. Most decisions require contextual knowledge coming from the emergency settings, including those which report the activities of other emergency teams. The goal of this paper is to describe a system which aims at storing and disseminating the contextual knowledge required by teams during the course of an emergency.

Keywords

emergency services; groupware; information dissemination; knowledge management; CSCW; collaborative emergency response; contextual knowledge; emergency management; emergency team; knowledge dissemination; knowledge management; knowledge storing; Collaboration; Computer science; Context; Control systems; Disaster management; Electric breakdown; Information technology; Knowledge management; Management information systems; Teamwork;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Computer Supported Cooperative Work in Design, 2005. Proceedings of the Ninth International Conference on

Print_ISBN

1-84600-002-5

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/CSCWD.2005.194358

Filename

1504265