The Application of Advanced Knowledge Technologies for Emergency Response
Stephen Potter, Yannis Kalfoglou, Harith Alani, Michelle Bachler, Simon Buckingham Shum, Rodrigo Cabral-Carvalho, Ajay Chakravarthy, Stuart Chalmers, Sam Chapman, Bo Hu, Alun D. Preece, Nigel Shadbolt, Austin Tate, Mischa M Tuffield · ePrints Soton (University of Southampton) · 2007
Making sense of the current state of an emergency and of the response to it is vital if appropriate decisions are to be made. This task involves the acquisition, interpretation and management of information. In this paper we present an integrated system that applies recent ideas and technologies from the fields of Artificial Intelligence and semantic web research to support sense- and decision-making at the tactical response level, and demonstrate it with reference to a hypothetical large-scale emergency scenario. We offer no end-user evaluation of this system; rather, we intend that it should serve as a visionary demonstration of the potential of these technologies for emergency response