Paper Info
Title
P-CARD: Policy-Based Contextual Awareness Realization for Disasters
Abstract
In an emergency response to a disaster, cooperation, upon which first responders rely to maintain contextual awareness, may not be adequate. This paper addresses how to maintain contextual awareness and extend cooperation among first responders in a disaster. Much research proposes that software agents can be used to aid in maintaining contextual awareness when direct cooperation is not available. However, the process of contextual awareness realization, a critical aspect to use software agents, has largely been ignored. This paper thus proposes a four-step process for contextual awareness realization driven by policies. The process is demonstrated via application to a scenario based on the hazardous material rail incident in Casa Grande, AZ. The paper concludes that refinement of management issues to policies, and then transforming policy to rules to define software agent behaviors is a potentially effective method for contextual awareness realization in software agents. This method enhances cooperation among involved agencies.
Year
DOI
Venue
2010
10.1109/HICSS.2010.468
System Sciences
Keywords
Field
DocType
contextual awareness,four-step process,software agent,critical aspect,contextual awareness realization,effective method,casa grande,software agent behavior,paper address,policy-based contextual awareness realization,direct cooperation,software agents,authorization,behavioural sciences,disasters,ubiquitous computing,hazardous materials
Contextual awareness,Computer science,Effective method,Authorization,RAILWAY ACCIDENTS,Knowledge management,Software agent,Behavioural sciences,Ubiquitous computing,Spatial contextual awareness
Conference
ISSN
ISBN
Citations 
1530-1605 E-ISBN : 978-1-4244-5510-2
978-1-4244-5510-2
1
PageRank 
References 
Authors
0.37
17
4
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
Amir Talaei-Khoei15215.63
Steven J. Bleistein232216.95
Pradeep Ray3516.42
Nandan Parameswaran45112.10