Supporting Efficient Multinational Disaster Response through a Web-Based System
EGOV '02 Proceedings of the First International Conference on Electronic Government
Theme: An Approach for Aspect-Oriented Analysis and Design
Proceedings of the 26th International Conference on Software Engineering
Path selection in disaster response management based on Q-learning
International Journal of Automation and Computing
Taking advantage of collective knowledge in emergency response systems
Journal of Network and Computer Applications
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During disaster response, networks can become overloaded and are susceptible to complete failure in the disaster area. This disables mobile communication, hindering response efforts from mobile users. Mobile users make use of various heterogeneous devices and require infrastructure to facilitate the communication of distributed information. Communication flow among mobile users is disorganized as it is either too strong and hierarchical or too flexible and dynamic. We have designed ubiquitous mobile infrastructures to match the response environment's communication flows and telecommunications, and produced a ubiquitous mobile communication system (ubimobcom). The design standardizes the information exchanges between mobile users. In this paper, we show that ubimobcom makes cooperation and coordination among mobile users possible at the disaster. Using ubimobcom, mobile users can be coordinated and can cooperate in outdoor areas, besides; they can continue connected with their disaster operation center. We describe the ubimobcom system to illustrate the use of communication by mobile users to disasters that may range from minor to catastrophic.