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Supporting adaptive processes in tackling emergency situations, such as disasters, is a key issue for any emergency management system. In such situations, various teams are deployed in many sites, at the front-end or back-end of the situations, to conduct tasks handling the emergency. Context information is of paramount importance in assisting the adaptation of these tasks. However, there is a lack of middleware supporting the management of context information in emergency situations. This paper presents a novel framework that manages and provides various types of context information required for adapting processes in emergency management systems.
This research is partially supported by the European Union through the FP6-2005-IST-5-034749 project WORKPAD.
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Truong, HL., Juszczyk, L., Manzoor, A., Dustdar, S. (2007). ESCAPE – An Adaptive Framework for Managing and Providing Context Information in Emergency Situations . In: Kortuem, G., Finney, J., Lea, R., Sundramoorthy, V. (eds) Smart Sensing and Context. EuroSSC 2007. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 4793. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-540-75696-5_13
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