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This paper presents VASCO, a Virtual Studio for Security Concepts and Operations. It is based on an innovative multifunctional ICT platform that enhances security design and strengthens security measures for government buildings. VASCO enables security professionals to virtually reconstruct government buildings, their surrounding environment and overlay their existing security means. The security community can validate actual solutions and search for the best practices by simulating diverse types of threats in high-resolution, realistic though virtual environments. Responding to an emergency, which involves a multitude of affected stakeholders and actors necessitates the involvement of a number of state owned agents and organizations. The need for making decisions using a common operational view, sharing information, exchanging data and planning coordinated actions is prerequisite. VASCO is a solution aiming to provide an important leap from present-day security planning methodologies and tools, to more sophisticated and efficient security solutions.
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CRIMSON: The Crisis Simulation System, G.A. SEC4-PR-110500, PASR 2004.
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INDIGO: Innovative training and decision support for emergency operations, G.A. 242341, FP7-SEC.
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Internal deliverable of VASCO project (SEC-2013.2.1-1 - Evidence based and integral security concepts for government asset protection – Capability Project. G.A. 607737).
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For the planned buildings, a detailed and finalized set of architectural drawings are required for the VASCO security editor to produce a virtual representation of indoor and outdoor environments.
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VASCO project has received funding from the European Union’s Seventh Framework Programme for research, technological development and demonstration under grant agreement no. 607737.
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Leventakis, G., Kokkinis, G., Sfetsos, A. (2016). Towards Integral Security Concepts for Government Buildings Through Virtual Facility Reconstruction. In: DÃaz, P., Bellamine Ben Saoud, N., Dugdale, J., Hanachi, C. (eds) Information Systems for Crisis Response and Management in Mediterranean Countries. ISCRAM-med 2016. Lecture Notes in Business Information Processing, vol 265. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-47093-1_13
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