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An Approach Towards a Decentralised Disaster Management Information Network

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Applied Computing (AACC 2004)

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The existing Disaster Management (DM) approaches are quite unstructured and are usually centralised in nature with the instructions following some sort of fixed hierarchy. This results in poor resource management and hence inefficiency. Since Disasters themselves are unstructured in scope and hence can’t be managed centrally, there is a need for a user centric decentralised hierarchy independent approach wherein even the end user is empowered accordingly for quick and effective results. This working paper addresses the novel approach by underlining the need for a decentralised Information Network whose main objective is to match the available resources at any time with the needs, at the right time and to the right people. Our network uses concepts of multi mobile agents, mobile/AdHoc networking, real time operations, etc. The paper also presents a descriptive implementation setup of the network with the benefits accruing like efficient & effective resource management, real time networking, user centric and enabler decentralised operations, etc. Given the canvass and time-critical aspects of disasters, by this approach the level of success could be exponentially increased leading to an efficient, real time, and effective Disaster Management.

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Scalem, M., Bandyopadhyay, S., Sircar, A.K. (2004). An Approach Towards a Decentralised Disaster Management Information Network. In: Manandhar, S., Austin, J., Desai, U., Oyanagi, Y., Talukder, A.K. (eds) Applied Computing. AACC 2004. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 3285. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-540-30176-9_37

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