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BDI vs FSM Agents in Social Simulations for Raising Awareness in Disasters: A Case Study in Melbourne Bushfires

Adam, Carole; Taillandier, Patrick; Dugdale, Julie; … - In: International Journal of Information Systems for Crisis … 9 (2017) 1, pp. 27-44

Each summer in Australia, bushfires burn many hectares of forest, causing deaths, injuries, and destroying property. Agent-based simulation is a powerful tool to test various management strategies on a simulated population, and to raise awareness of the actual population behaviour. But valid...

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Dependability Levels on Autonomous Systems: The Case Study of a Crisis Management Robot

Zacharaki, Angeliki; Kostavelis, Ioannis - In: International Journal of Information Systems for Crisis … 9 (2017) 3, pp. 1-12

Professional robots should be endorsed with great autonomy capabilities when designed for release into the market. The need for autonomy is further reinforced when robots are meant to be used for crisis management situations, where close collaboration with humans and trustworthy operation in...

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Serious Game Design for Flooding Triggered by Extreme Weather

Radianti, Jaziar; Tronslien, Mattias N.; Thomassen, … - In: International Journal of Information Systems for Crisis … 9 (2017) 3, pp. 55-75

Managing crises with limited resources through a serious game is deemed as one of the ways of training and can be regarded as an alternative to a table-top exercise. This article presents the so-called “Operasjon Tyrsdal” serious game, inspired by a real case of extreme weather that hit the...

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Towards a Grid for Characterizing and Evaluating Crisis Management Serious Games: A Survey of the Current State of Art

Daoudi, Ibtissem; Chebil, Raoudha; Tranvouez, Erwan; … - In: International Journal of Information Systems for Crisis … 9 (2017) 3, pp. 76-95

Over the last few decades, interest has grown in the use of serious games (SG) and their assessment in almost every sector. A privileged application domain of SG is crisis management (CM) in which these tools improve crisis behavior and/or management in a safe environment while reducing training...

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Understanding Sense-Making on Social Media During Crises: Categorization of Sense-Making Barriers and Strategies

Stieglitz, Stefan; Mirbabaie, Milad; Fromm, Jennifer - In: International Journal of Information Systems for Crisis … 9 (2017) 4, pp. 49-69

Individuals are increasingly using social media during crisis situations to seek information. However, little is known about how they utilize social media to gain an understanding of crisis situations. The aim of this study was to close this gap by conducting sense-making interviews with 18...

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Influence Factors for Innovation in Digital Self-Preparedness Services and Tools

Pottebaum, Jens; Gräßler, Iris; Scholle, Philipp - In: International Journal of Information Systems for Crisis … 10 (2018) 1, pp. 20-37

IT support for crisis and continuity management covers all stages from prevention through preparedness to response and recovery. The application of innovative technologies often implies the need for structural and procedural changes for users and reliable assessment of future business...

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Promoting Situation Awareness: Usability of a Social Media Tool for Journalists and Crisis Managers

Backholm, Klas; Högväg, Joachim; Lindholm, Jenny; … - In: International Journal of Information Systems for Crisis … 10 (2018) 1, pp. 38-56

Crisis communicators and journalists need stable structures to handle social media content in emergencies, but struggle with information overload. The usability of a tool intended to support information gathering was investigated by conducting two usability tests (low- and high-fidelity...

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Crisis Management Using Centrality Measurement in Social Networks

Sehgal, Vivek Kumar; Verma, Ruchi; Nitin - In: International Journal of Mobile Computing and … 8 (2017) 1, pp. 19-33

Increasing use of IP enabled smart gadgets, rapidly increasing the formation of cyber centric social networks. Any human discussion reflects its emotions and ego centric thoughts among the masses which results the formation of pro and anti-groups. Identification of various categories of groups...

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An Overview of Disaster and Emergency Management Systems Models

Sarwar, Dilshad - In: International Journal of Strategic Engineering (IJoSE) 1 (2018) 1, pp. 24-37

Emergencies and disasters can cause immense physical, emotional and financial losses to individuals, organisations, and larger scale countries. These emergencies and disasters can fundamentally cause casualties, and in many cases, loss of life. Psychological and financially the impacts on...

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Covering the Cost of the Past: Disaster Management in the Most Typhoon-Affected Region in the Philippines

Jovita, Hazel; Mutiarin, Dyah; Nurmandi, Achmad - In: International Journal of Disaster Response and … 1 (2018) 2, pp. 49-63

This is a quantitative article which aims to analyse what constitutes successful disaster governance by measuring how … the previous performance of the disaster management network influence the aspects of governance process -initial agreement … management. The findings highlight the role of public managers in the collaborative disaster management as it revealed that …

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