TY - GEN
T1 - Emergency response plan recommendation and composition system (ERPRCS)
AU - Afzal, Ayesha
AU - Shafiq, Basit
AU - Shamail, Shafay
AU - Elahraf, Abeer
AU - Vaidya, Jaideep
AU - Adam, Nabil
N1 - Publisher Copyright:
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PY - 2018/5/30
Y1 - 2018/5/30
N2 - An emergency response process is a plan that outlines the workflow of different activities that need to be performed in response to an emergency situation. Effective response planning requires interoperability among systems belonging to different organizations. Unlike typical e-government processes that are well structured and have a well-defined outcome, emergency response processes are knowledge centric and their workflow structure and execution may evolve dynamically based on the environmental context as well as the type of service/activity invoked during process execution. It is impractical to define static plans and response process workflow for every possible situation due to the fact that unforeseeable situations may arise. Thus, a dynamic response requires adaptability to changing situation as the incident evolves. This article presents an approach for development of an Emergency Response Plan Recommendation and Composition System (ERPRCS) that, as the incident evolves, facilitates dynamic composition of an executable response plan by exploiting the knowledge of existing plans and learning from them. Specifically, the ERPRCS system generates an executable response plan from an existing response process that was instantiated for an incident most similar to the current incident. This response plan is customized based on available services and resource provider systems in a given jurisdiction and geographical area.
AB - An emergency response process is a plan that outlines the workflow of different activities that need to be performed in response to an emergency situation. Effective response planning requires interoperability among systems belonging to different organizations. Unlike typical e-government processes that are well structured and have a well-defined outcome, emergency response processes are knowledge centric and their workflow structure and execution may evolve dynamically based on the environmental context as well as the type of service/activity invoked during process execution. It is impractical to define static plans and response process workflow for every possible situation due to the fact that unforeseeable situations may arise. Thus, a dynamic response requires adaptability to changing situation as the incident evolves. This article presents an approach for development of an Emergency Response Plan Recommendation and Composition System (ERPRCS) that, as the incident evolves, facilitates dynamic composition of an executable response plan by exploiting the knowledge of existing plans and learning from them. Specifically, the ERPRCS system generates an executable response plan from an existing response process that was instantiated for an incident most similar to the current incident. This response plan is customized based on available services and resource provider systems in a given jurisdiction and geographical area.
KW - Business process composition
KW - Emergency response plan
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U2 - 10.1145/3209281.3209348
DO - 10.1145/3209281.3209348
M3 - Conference contribution
AN - SCOPUS:85049022341
T3 - ACM International Conference Proceeding Series
BT - Proceedings of the 19th Annual International Conference on Digital Government Research
A2 - Hinnant, Charles C.
A2 - Zuiderwijk, Anneke
PB - Association for Computing Machinery
T2 - 19th Annual International Conference on Digital Government Research: Governance in the Data Age, DG.O 2018
Y2 - 30 May 2018 through 1 June 2018
ER -