Crisis Response and Management and Emerging Information Systems ─ Critical Applications

Expanded from their version in the first volume of the International Journal of Information Systems for Crisis Response and Management, 17 articles explore technical approaches to emergency response. Researchers in computer and information science, organizations, security, and other fields consider such topics as the past as the future of emergency preparedness and management, web-based group decision support for crisis management, multilingual crisis knowledge representation, supporting flexibility and improvisation in collaborative command and control, emergency messaging to the general public through public wireless networks, a unified localized emergency events scale, and initial requirements of a national crisis decision support system. This begins a projected annual series. Annotation c2011 Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)