A Personalized Forest Fire Evacuation Data Grid Push Service: The FFED-GPS Approach

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Author(s): Eleana Asimakopoulou (University of Bedfordshire, UK), Nik Bessis (University of Bedfordshire, UK), Ravikanth Varaganti (University of Bedfordshire, UK)and Peter Norrington (University of Bedfordshire, UK)
Copyright: 2010
Pages: 17
Source title: Advanced ICTs for Disaster Management and Threat Detection: Collaborative and Distributed Frameworks
Source Author(s)/Editor(s): Eleana Asimakopoulou (Loughborough University, UK)and Nik Bessis (University of Bedfordshire, UK)
DOI: 10.4018/978-1-61520-987-3.ch017

Keywords: Business Science Reference / Crisis Response and Management / Emergency & Disaster Management / Government & Law

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Much work is under way in disaster reduction and emergency management towards the utilization of information and communication technologies (ICT) and the design of relevant services associated with risk management towards sustainable development and livelihood. Recent forest fires occurred in Southern Europe, caused environmental destruction and a number of fatalities. The effective and efficient production of forest fire evacuation plans requires decisions based on integrated data from heterogeneous and distributed sources that change over time very quickly. Recent ICT advances suggest the need for further work in the advanced evacuation systems area. We are particularly interested of how to automatically inform potential victims about the most relevant evacuation routes in the most-timely fashion so they can escape a forest fire safely. With this in mind, this chapter describes the concepts, architecture and implementation of the Personalized Forest Fire Evacuation Data Grid Push Service using data push and next generation grid technologies.

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