P-CARD: Policy-based Contextual Awareness Realization for Disasters

Talaei-Khoei, A; Bleistein, S; Ray, P; Parameswaran, N

P-CARD: Policy-based Contextual Awareness Realization for Disasters

Talaei-Khoei, A Bleistein, S Ray, P Parameswaran, N

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Citation:: Proceedings of the Annual Hawaii International Conference on System Sciences, 2010
Issue Date:: 2010-05-07

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dc.contributor.author	Talaei-Khoei, A	en_US
dc.contributor.author	Bleistein, S	en_US
dc.contributor.author	Ray, P	en_US
dc.contributor.author	Parameswaran, N	en_US
dc.date.issued	2010-05-07	en_US
dc.identifier.citation	Proceedings of the Annual Hawaii International Conference on System Sciences, 2010	en_US
dc.identifier.isbn	9780769538693	en_US
dc.identifier.issn	1530-1605	en_US
dc.identifier.uri	http://hdl.handle.net/10453/30925
dc.description.abstract	In an emergency response to a disaster, cooperation, upon which first responders rely to maintain contextual awareness, may not be adequate. This paper addresses how to maintain contextual awareness and extend cooperation among first responders in a disaster. Much research proposes that software agents can be used to aid in maintaining contextual awareness when direct cooperation is not available. However, the process of contextual awareness realization, a critical aspect to use software agents, has largely been ignored. This paper thus proposes a four-step process for contextual awareness realization driven by policies. The process is demonstrated via application to a scenario based on the hazardous material rail incident in Casa Grande, AZ. The paper concludes that refinement of management issues to policies, and then transforming policy to rules to define software agent behaviors is a potentially effective method for contextual awareness realization in software agents. This method enhances cooperation among involved agencies. © 2010 IEEE.	en_US
dc.relation.ispartof	Proceedings of the Annual Hawaii International Conference on System Sciences	en_US
dc.relation.isbasedon	10.1109/HICSS.2010.468	en_US
dc.title	P-CARD: Policy-based Contextual Awareness Realization for Disasters	en_US
dc.type	Conference Proceeding
utslib.for	0806 Information Systems	en_US
dc.location.activity	Honolulu, USA
pubs.embargo.period	Not known	en_US
pubs.organisational-group	/University of Technology Sydney
pubs.organisational-group	/University of Technology Sydney/Faculty of Engineering and Information Technology
pubs.organisational-group	/University of Technology Sydney/Faculty of Engineering and Information Technology/School of Computer Science
pubs.organisational-group	/University of Technology Sydney/Strength - HCTD - Human Centred Technology Design
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Abstract:

In an emergency response to a disaster, cooperation, upon which first responders rely to maintain contextual awareness, may not be adequate. This paper addresses how to maintain contextual awareness and extend cooperation among first responders in a disaster. Much research proposes that software agents can be used to aid in maintaining contextual awareness when direct cooperation is not available. However, the process of contextual awareness realization, a critical aspect to use software agents, has largely been ignored. This paper thus proposes a four-step process for contextual awareness realization driven by policies. The process is demonstrated via application to a scenario based on the hazardous material rail incident in Casa Grande, AZ. The paper concludes that refinement of management issues to policies, and then transforming policy to rules to define software agent behaviors is a potentially effective method for contextual awareness realization in software agents. This method enhances cooperation among involved agencies. © 2010 IEEE.

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