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Decision Support for Emergency Situations

In: Handbook on Decision Support Systems 2

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  • Bartel Walle

    (Tilburg University)

  • Murray Turoff

    (New Jersey Institute of Technology)

Abstract

Emergency situations occur unpredictably and cause individuals and organizations to shift their focus and attention immediately to deal with the situation. When disasters become large scale, all the limitations resulting from a lack of integration and collaboration among all the involved organizations begin to be exposed and further compound the negative consequences of the event. Often in large-scale disasters the people who must work together have no history of doing so; they have not developed a trust or understanding of one another’s abilities, and the totality of resources they each bring to bear have never before been exercised. As a result, the challenges for individual or group decision support systems (DSS) in emergency situations are diverse and immense. In this contribution, we present recent advances in this area and highlight important challenges that remain.

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  • Bartel Walle & Murray Turoff, 2008. "Decision Support for Emergency Situations," International Handbooks on Information Systems, in: Handbook on Decision Support Systems 2, chapter 39, pages 39-63, Springer.
    • Handle: RePEc:spr:ihichp:978-3-540-48716-6_3
    DOI: 10.1007/978-3-540-48716-6_3
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