Paper Info
Title
Enhanced Situational Awareness: Application of DDDAS Concepts to Emergency and Disaster Management
Abstract
We describe a prototype emergency and disaster information system designed and implemented using DDDAS concepts. The system is designed to use real-time cell phone calling data from a geographical region, including calling activity --- who calls whom, call duration, services in use, and cell phone location information --- to provide enhanced situational awareness for managers in emergency operations centers (EOCs) during disaster events. Powered-on cell phones maintain contact with one or more within-range cell towers so as to receive incoming calls. Thus, location data about all phones in an area are available, either directly from GPS equipped phones, or by cell tower, cell sector, distance from tower and triangulation methods. This permits the cell phones of a geographical region to serve as an ad hoc mobile sensor net, measuring the movement and calling patterns of the population. A prototype system, WIPER, serves as a test bed to research open DDDAS design issues, including dynamic validation of simulations, algorithms to interpret high volume data streams, ensembles of simulations, runtime execution, middleware services, and experimentation frameworks [1].
Year
DOI
Venue
2007
10.1007/978-3-540-72584-8_143
International Conference on Computational Science (1)
Keywords
Field
DocType
enhanced situational awareness,cell tower,disaster information system,geographical region,disaster management,real-time cell phone,cell phone location information,high volume data stream,dddas concepts,cell sector,cell phone,within-range cell tower,powered-on cell phone,real time,test bed,middleware,situation awareness
Middleware,Call duration,Population,Data stream mining,Situation awareness,Computer security,Computer science,Emergency management,Computer network,Phone,Global Positioning System
Conference
Volume
ISSN
Citations 
4487
0302-9743
22
PageRank 
References 
Authors
1.43
5
11
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
Gregory R. Madey144149.83
Albert-László Barabási2221.43
Nitesh Chawla37257345.79
Marta Gonzalez420312.62
David Hachen59612.38
Brett Lantz6221.43
Alec Pawling7414.08
Timothy Schoenharl8281.95
Gábor Szabó915112.35
Pu Wang10221.43
Ping Yan1122210.91