Fusion Methodologies in Crisis Management

1. Front Matter

   Pages i-xvi

   PDF

2. Introduction

   • Galina L. Rogova, Peter D. Scott

   Pages 1-24

3. Knowledge Representation and Extraction

   1. Front Matter

      Pages 25-25

      PDF

   2. Natural Language Understanding for Information Fusion

      • Stuart C. Shapiro, Daniel R. Schlegel

      Pages 27-45

   3. Cognitive Aspects of Higher Level Fusion

      • Dale A. Lambert, Kerry Trentelman

      Pages 47-63

   4. Information Quality in Information Fusion and Decision Making with Applications to Crisis Management

      • Galina L. Rogova

      Pages 65-86

   5. Uncertainty Representations for Information Retrieval with Missing Data

      • Anne-Laure Jousselme, Patrick Maupin

      Pages 87-104

4. Context in Crisis Management

   1. Front Matter

      Pages 105-105

      PDF

   2. Crisis Management and Context

      • Galina L. Rogova

      Pages 107-119

   3. A Multi-Agent Context-Management System for RECON Intelligence Analysis

      • Alexis Morris, William Ross, Mihaela Ulieru

      Pages 121-133

5. Social Media and Crisis Management

   1. Front Matter

      Pages 135-135

      PDF

   2. On the Challenges of Using Social Media for Crisis Management

      • Thomas Delavallade, Simon Fossier, Claire Laudy, Gaëlle Lortal

      Pages 137-175

   3. Towards a Crowd-Sensing Enhanced Situation Awareness System for Crisis Management

      • Andrea Salfinger, Werner Retschitzegger, Wieland Schwinger, Birgit Pröll

      Pages 177-211

   4. Data Fusion Across Traditional and Social Media

      • Werner Bailer, Gert Kienast, Georg Thallinger, Gerhard Backfried

      Pages 213-227

6. Reasoning About Situations and Threats

   1. Front Matter

      Pages 229-229

      PDF

   2. Empowering the Next-Generation Analyst

      • David Hall, Guoray Cai, Jake Graham

      Pages 231-244

   3. Abductive Inferencing for Integrating Information from Human and Robotic Sources

      • John R. Josephson

      Pages 245-255

   4. High-Level Fusion for Crisis Response Planning

      • Kathryn B. Laskey, Henrique C. Marques, Paulo C. G. da Costa

      Pages 257-285

   5. Network Methods and Plan Recognition for Fusion in Crisis Management

      • Lauro Snidaro, Ingrid Visentini

      Pages 287-312

   6. A Model for Threat Assessment

      • Alan N. Steinberg

      Pages 313-340

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.

• Cognitive Methods
• Decision Making
• Domain Representation
• Extreme Events
• Higher Level Fusion
• Information Quality
• Social Media
• quality control, reliability, safety and risk

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

  Galina Rogova

• State University of New Yorkat Buffalo, Buffalo, USA

  Peter Scott

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.

Policies and ethics