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Design Principles of Coordinated Multi-incident Emergency Response Systems

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Emergency response systems play an important role in homeland security nowadays. Despite this, research in the design of emergency response systems is lacking. An effective design of emergency response system involves multi-disciplinary design considerations. On the basis of emergency response system requirement analysis, in this paper, we develop a set of supporting design concepts and strategic principles for an architecture for a coordinated multi-incident emergency response system

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  1. Department of Management of Science and Systems, State University of New York at Buffalo, Buffalo, NY, 14260

    Rui Chen, Raj Sharman & H. Raghav Rao

  2. Department of Computer Science and Engineering, State University of New York at Buffalo, Buffalo, NY, 14260

    H. Raghav Rao & Shambhu Upadhyaya

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  1. Department of Library and Information Science, Rutgers University,  

    Paul Kantor

  2. School of Communication, Information and Library Studies, Rutgers University, 4 Huntington Street, 08901-1071, New Brunswick, NJ, USA

    Gheorghe Muresan

  3. Artificial Solutions, Altonaer Poststraße 13b, 22767, Hamburg, Germany

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  4. MIS Department, University of Arizona, 85721, Tucson, AZ, USA

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  5. Institute of Automation, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing, China

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  6. Department of Management Information Systems, Eller College of Management, The University of Arizona, 85721, AZ, USA

    Hsinchun Chen

  7. College of Computing, Georgia Tech Information Security Center, Georgia Institute of Technology, 801 Atlantic Drive, 30332-0280, Atlanta, GA, USA

    Ralph C. Merkle

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Chen, R., Sharman, R., Rao, H.R., Upadhyaya, S. (2005). Design Principles of Coordinated Multi-incident Emergency Response Systems. In: Kantor, P., et al. Intelligence and Security Informatics. ISI 2005. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 3495. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/11427995_8

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