Fusion Methodologies in Crisis Management

1. Introduction
Galina L. Rogova, Peter D. Scott

Part I. Knowledge Representation and Extraction

2. Natural Language Understanding for Information Fusion
Stuart C. Shapiro, Daniel R. Schlegel

3. Cognitive Aspects of Higher Level Fusion
Dale A. Lambert, Kerry Trentelman

4. Information Quality in Information Fusion and Decision Making with Applications to Crisis Management
Galina L. Rogova

5. Uncertainty Representations for Information Retrieval with Missing Data
Anne-Laure Jousselme, Patrick Maupin

Part II. Context in Crisis Management

6. Crisis Management and Context
Galina L. Rogova

7. A Multi-Agent Context-Management System for RECON Intelligence Analysis
Alexis Morris, William Ross, Mihaela Ulieru

Part III. Social Media and Crisis Management

8. On the Challenges of Using Social Media for Crisis Management
Thomas Delavallade, Simon Fossier, Claire Laudy, Gaëlle Lortal

9. Towards a Crowd-Sensing Enhanced Situation Awareness System for Crisis Management
Andrea Salfinger, Werner Retschitzegger, Wieland Schwinger, Birgit Pröll

10. Data Fusion Across Traditional and Social Media
Werner Bailer, Gert Kienast, Georg Thallinger, Gerhard Backfried

Part IV. Reasoning About Situations and Threats

11. Empowering the Next-Generation Analyst
David Hall, Guoray Cai, Jake Graham

12. Abductive Inferencing for Integrating Information from Human and Robotic Sources
John R. Josephson

13. High-Level Fusion for Crisis Response Planning
Kathryn B. Laskey, Henrique C. Marques, Paulo C. G. Costa

14. Network Methods and Plan Recognition for Fusion in Crisis Management
Lauro Snidaro, Ingrid Visentini

15. A Model for Threat Assessment
Alan N. Steinberg

16. Rule-Based Support for Situation Management
Patrícia Dockhorn Costa, João Paulo A. Almeida, Isaac S. A. Pereira, Marten Sinderen, Luís Ferreira Pires

17. From Argumentative Crisis to Critical Arguments: How to Argue in the Face of Danger
Laura Bonelli, Silvia Felletti, Fabio Paglieri

18. Fusion Trust Service Assessment for Crisis Management Environments
Erik Blasch, Youakim Badr, Salim Hariri, Youssif Al-Nashif

Part V. Decision Making

19. Aggregation of Coherent Experts’ Opinions: A Tractable Extreme-Outcomes Consistent Rule
Marcello Basili, Alain Chateauneuf

20. Decision Making Under Ignorance
Phan H. Giang

21. Modeling Extreme Events Using Heavy-Tailed Distributions
Mathukumalli Vidyasagar

Part VI. Case Studies

22. A General Framework for Using Social and Traditional Media During Natural Disasters: QuOIMA and the Central European Floods of 2013
Gerhard Backfried, Christian Schmidt, Dorothea Aniola, Christian Meurers, Klaus Mak, Johannes Göllner, Andreas Peer, Gerald Quirchmayr, Gerald Czech, Markus Glanzer

23. Coordination of Decision-Making in Crisis Management
John Dowell

24. HAZMAT Tracking: Compatibility Organizational Theory Case Study
Nicolas A. Valcik

25. Decision Support for Wide Area Disasters
Alexander Smirnov, Tatiana Levashova, Nikolay Shilov, Alexey Kashevnik

Keywords: Engineering, Quality Control, Reliability, Safety and Risk, Natural Hazards, Information Systems and Communication Service, Public Administration, Communications Engineering, Networks