Name
Abstract | ||
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Volunteer supporters play an important role in modern crisis and disaster management. In the times of mobile Internet devices, help from thousands of volunteers can be requested within a short time span, thus relieving professional helpers from minor chores or geographically spread-out tasks. However, the simultaneous availability of many volunteers also poses new problems. In particular, the volunteer efforts must be well coordinated, or otherwise situations might emerge in which too many idle volunteers at one location become more of a burden than a relief to the professionals. In this work, we study the task of optimally assigning volunteers to selected locations, e.g. in order to perform regular measurements, to report on damage, or to distribute information or resources to the population in a crisis situation. We formulate the assignment tasks as an optimization problem and propose an effective and efficient solution procedure. Experiments on real data of the Team Österreich, consisting of over 36,000 Austrian volunteers, show the effectiveness and efficiency of our approach. |
Year | DOI | Venue |
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2015 | 10.1109/ICT-DM.2015.7402041 | 2015 2nd International Conference on Information and Communication Technologies for Disaster Management (ICT-DM) |
Keywords | Field | DocType |
optimal geospatial allocation,volunteer supporters,crisis management,disaster management,mobile Internet devices,optimization problem | Geospatial analysis,Population,Mobile internet,Computer security,Computer science,Emergency management,Crisis management,Redundancy (engineering),Optimization problem | Conference |
ISSN | Citations | PageRank |
2469-8822 | 1 | 0.35 |
References | Authors | |
6 | 2 | |
Name | Order | Citations | PageRank |
|---|---|---|---|
| Jasmin Pielorz | 1 | 15 | 3.78 |
| Christoph H. Lampert | 2 | 2718 | 125.52 |