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Fusion Methodologies in Crisis Management

Higher Level Fusion and Decision Making

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  • © 2016

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Editors:
  1. Galina Rogova

    1. State University of New York at Buffalo, Buffalo, USA

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  2. Peter Scott

    1. State University of New Yorkat Buffalo, Buffalo, USA

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  • Discusses decision making in extreme and rare situation
  • Presents method of representing and controlling information quality
  • Examines context exploitation and discovery for situation management
  • Includes supplementary material: sn.pub/extras

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Table of contents (25 chapters)

  1. Reasoning About Situations and Threats

    1. Rule-Based Support for Situation Management

      • Patrícia Dockhorn Costa, João Paulo A. Almeida, Isaac S. A. Pereira, Marten van Sinderen, Luís Ferreira Pires
      Pages 341-364

    2. From Argumentative Crisis to Critical Arguments: How to Argue in the Face of Danger

      • Laura Bonelli, Silvia Felletti, Fabio Paglieri
      Pages 365-387

    3. Fusion Trust Service Assessment for Crisis Management Environments

      • Erik Blasch, Youakim Badr, Salim Hariri, Youssif Al-Nashif
      Pages 389-420

  2. Decision Making

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 421-421
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    2. Aggregation of Coherent Experts’ Opinions: A Tractable Extreme-Outcomes Consistent Rule

      • Marcello Basili, Alain Chateauneuf
      Pages 423-433

    3. Decision Making Under Ignorance

      • Phan H. Giang
      Pages 435-454

    4. Modeling Extreme Events Using Heavy-Tailed Distributions

      • Mathukumalli Vidyasagar
      Pages 455-465

  3. Case Studies

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 467-467
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    2. A General Framework for Using Social and Traditional Media During Natural Disasters: QuOIMA and the Central European Floods of 2013

      • Gerhard Backfried, Christian Schmidt, Dorothea Aniola, Christian Meurers, Klaus Mak, Johannes Göllner et al.
      Pages 469-487

    3. Coordination of Decision-Making in Crisis Management

      • John Dowell
      Pages 489-499

    4. HAZMAT Tracking: Compatibility Organizational Theory Case Study

      • Nicolas A. Valcik
      Pages 501-517

    5. Decision Support for Wide Area Disasters

      • Alexander Smirnov, Tatiana Levashova, Nikolay Shilov, Alexey Kashevnik
      Pages 519-537

  4. Back Matter

    Pages 539-549
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About this book

The book emphasizes a contemporary view on the role of higher level fusion in designing crisis management systems, and provide the formal foundations, architecture and implementation strategies required for building dynamic current and future situational pictures, challenges of, and the state of the art computational approaches to designing such processes. This book integrates recent advances in decision theory with those in fusion methodology to define an end-to-end framework for decision support in crisis management. The text discusses modern fusion and decision support methods for dealing with heterogeneous and often unreliable, low fidelity, contradictory, and redundant data and information, as well as rare, unknown, unconventional or even unimaginable critical situations. Also the book examines the role of context in situation management, cognitive aspects of decision making and situation management, approaches to domain representation, visualization, as well as the role and exploitation of the social media. The editors include examples and case studies from the field of disaster management.

Editors and Affiliations

  • State University of New York at Buffalo, Buffalo, USA

    Galina Rogova

  • State University of New Yorkat Buffalo, Buffalo, USA

    Peter Scott

About the editors

Galina L. Rogova is a research professor at the State University of New York at Buffalo.

Peter Scott is an Associate Professor Emeritus at the Department of Computer Science and Engineering, University at Buffalo.

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