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Potential Applications of Advanced Information Technology in Emergency Management

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Within nuclear-,offshore- and petrochemical industries there is always a potential risk for severe incidents and accidents.On such occasions the staff in charge have to face decisions that:

  • must be taken relatively fast

  • involve complex judgements

  • involve making trade-offs between partly incompatible demands

  • must be based on technical data that is difficult to get access to

  • involve many decions-makers and experts

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Andersson, H., Holmström, C. (1988). Potential Applications of Advanced Information Technology in Emergency Management. In: Majumdar, M.C., Majumdar, D., Sackett, J.I. (eds) Artificial Intelligence and Other Innovative Computer Applications in the Nuclear Industry. Springer, Boston, MA. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4613-1009-9_22

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