The complexity and the intensity of crisis-related situations require the use of advanced distributed systems … techniques for the development of the ATHENA Crisis Management Distributed System. The function of the ATHENA Crisis Management … crisis and the coordination of the appropriate measures in response to the crisis. The paper presents a new definition for …

Crisis communicators and journalists need stable structures to handle social media content in emergencies, but struggle …

In a mass crisis event, Emergency Operation Centers (EOC) cannot meet the demand of thousands of individuals trying to … present a system that aims to provide real-time data to emergency managers during a crisis event in such an environment – a … hundreds of direct text messages from populations engaged in a crisis to emergency management staff who can respond. They posit …

This article deals with citizen engagement and public participation being in crisis on the Israeli home front, in the …

from legitimacy theory, the disaster is treated as a moment of crisis, in which the relationship of trust between the …

crisis. The article performs extensive review of literature in order to identify decision making approaches in crisis … situations and the different factors that affect these approaches. It also presents the ATHENA Crisis Management system which is … received through the Social Media during and after a large crisis. A number of conclusions are drawn on the identification of …

The study aims to discern how social networking sites have become an important tool in enabling immediate crisis … communication. Juxtaposing theories on crisis and strategies of image restoration the paper aims to analyze the recent Maggi Crisis … networking sites to the companies at the time of crisis. The paper concludes that damage control to a great extent could be …

of the five countries to the 2008 crisis was countercyclical. On the fiscal side, countries had a larger fiscal space in … indicators and a reduction in financing needs in the years before the crisis. On the monetary side, the capacity to implement … countercyclical responses in future crisis episodes, the fiscal authorities should reverse expansionary measures during good times nd …