Using event representation and semantic enrichment for managing and reviewing emergency incident logs
Symeon Papadopoulos, Ansgar Scherp, Neil Ireson, Ioannis Tsampoulatidis, Ioannis Yiannis Kompatsiaris · 2010
During an emergency incident, several different log files are created by members of the Emergency Response (ER) personnel to document the emergency events that occur throughout the incident. Managing and reviewing these logs is a critical task for understanding and improving the implemented ER actions. A major challenge arising in this task is the merging of log files that are created by the different members of the ER personnel for the incident under study. Extensive manual effort is necessary to identify critical information, such as person names and locations, in order to align and merge the incoming log entries to make them suitable for review.