Decision Support for Emergency Situations

Bartel Walle and Murray Turoff
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Bartel Walle: Tilburg University
Murray Turoff: New Jersey Institute of Technology

Chapter 39 in Handbook on Decision Support Systems 2, 2008, pp 39-63 from Springer

Abstract: Abstract Emergency situations occur unpredictably and cause individuals and organizations to shift their focus and attention immediately to deal with the situation. When disasters become large scale, all the limitations resulting from a lack of integration and collaboration among all the involved organizations begin to be exposed and further compound the negative consequences of the event. Often in large-scale disasters the people who must work together have no history of doing so; they have not developed a trust or understanding of one another’s abilities, and the totality of resources they each bring to bear have never before been exercised. As a result, the challenges for individual or group decision support systems (DSS) in emergency situations are diverse and immense. In this contribution, we present recent advances in this area and highlight important challenges that remain.

Keywords: Decision Support System; Information Security; Emergency Situation; Emergency Response; Emergency Preparedness (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2008
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DOI: 10.1007/978-3-540-48716-6_3

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