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Either nature-caused and man-made disasters seem to be occurring more frequently and are more severe, or our communication technology has advanced considerably and we are made aware more quickly and completely of disasters happening everywhere in the world. Such disasters can cause a large number of injured, dead and homeless. Some disasters are small and can be handled by the local authorities. On the other hand, some of them may be large in magnitude and spread over large geographical areas and therefore require coordination by authorities in many localities, as well as authorities of county, region, state and country levels - as in the case of very large earthquakes, coordinated worldwide distributed terrorist activities, etc.
This paper1 presents the infrastructure for CRISIS-2000 system, a worldwide distributed system for crisis management. The purpose of the system is to enable optimal management of activities and resources in handling disasters in an arbitrary large geographical area, i.e. it allocates the resources in a manner so that effects of the crises, e.g. number of fatalities and human suffering, are minimized. The system applies the most recent advances in methodologies of Operations Research, Artificial Intelligence, Information Management and Web Technology.
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1Parts of this paper are based on the paper „Marovac, N. and Staehly, P.:CRISIS-2000: A Decision Support System for Major Disasters, presented at the conference OR-2000, October 2000, Dresden, Germany”.
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Marovac, N. (2001). Infrastructure for Crisis-2000. In: Kischka, P., Möhring, R.H., Leopold-Wildburger, U., Radermacher, FJ. (eds) Models, Methods and Decision Support for Management. Physica, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-57603-4_17
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