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The success of disaster handling often depends on the efficient flow of information. The social media and networks receive a growing attention as potential source of valuable data in disaster scenarios. The social network based information flow is real-time, direct, two-directional and often geo-tagged. Unfortunately, besides these obvious advantages, social network data suffers from drawbacks: it is unstructured, dispersed and lacks reliability. This paper proposes an approach based on combining a geo-fencing technology with social network platform to combat this problem and deliver a novel service for disaster management. The service groups users ad-hoc based on their location. Social network features allow users to exchange real-time information, coordinate rescue efforts, issue and report tasks. The geo-fences are visualized to provide a good overview of the disaster zone. The service was evaluated by disaster management experts, with an encouraging feedback.
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Szczytowski, P. (2015). Geo-fencing Based Disaster Management Service. In: Koch, F., Meneguzzi, F., Lakkaraju, K. (eds) Agent Technology for Intelligent Mobile Services and Smart Societies. AVSA CARE 2014 2014. Communications in Computer and Information Science, vol 498. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-662-46241-6_2
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