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Emergency management involves the coordination of agencies in a complex evolving situation, as they usually affect several domains and infrastructures. This requires complex models representing detailed knowledge about the types of adverse events, their potential impact and the means and resources that are best suited for response. Existing models for emergency management do not address a detailed typology of incidents that cover their relationships and how they should be managed. In ontologies explicitly engineered to such kind of effect-based assessment, the possible consequences of an adverse event become the main representational commitment. This paper describes the main representational issues associated with ontologies for emergency response that are engineered to represent knowledge for effect-based assessment, and provides concrete examples. The integration of such ontologies in existing emergency response systems is also sketched.
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Santos, L., Sicilia, MA., Padrino, S. (2011). Ontologies for Emergency Response: Effect-Based Assessment as the Main Ontological Commitment. In: García-Barriocanal, E., Cebeci, Z., Okur, M.C., Öztürk, A. (eds) Metadata and Semantic Research. MTSR 2011. Communications in Computer and Information Science, vol 240. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-24731-6_9
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