TY - GEN
T1 - Enhanced situational awareness
T2 - 7th International Conference on Computational Science, ICCS 2007
AU - Madey, Gregory R.
AU - Barabási, Albert László
AU - Chawla, Nitesh V.
AU - Gonzalez, Marta
AU - Hachen, David
AU - Lantz, Brett
AU - Pawling, Alec
AU - Schoenharl, Timothy
AU - Szabó, Gábor
AU - Wang, Pu
AU - Yan, Ping
PY - 2007
Y1 - 2007
N2 - We describe a prototype emergency and disaster information system designed and implemented using DDDAS concepts. The system is designed to use real-time cell phone calling data from a geographical region, including calling activity - who calls whom, call duration, services in use, and cell phone location information - to provide enhanced situational awareness for managers in emergency operations centers (EOCs) during disaster events. Powered-on cell phones maintain contact with one or more within-range cell towers so as to receive incoming calls. Thus, location data about all phones in an area are available, either directly from GPS equipped phones, or by cell tower, cell sector, distance from tower and triangulation methods. This permits the cell phones of a geographical region to serve as an ad hoc mobile sensor net, measuring the movement and calling patterns of the population. A prototype system, WIPER, serves as a test bed to research open DDDAS design issues, including dynamic validation of simulations, algorithms to interpret high volume data streams, ensembles of simulations, runtime execution, middleware services, and experimentation frameworks [1].
AB - We describe a prototype emergency and disaster information system designed and implemented using DDDAS concepts. The system is designed to use real-time cell phone calling data from a geographical region, including calling activity - who calls whom, call duration, services in use, and cell phone location information - to provide enhanced situational awareness for managers in emergency operations centers (EOCs) during disaster events. Powered-on cell phones maintain contact with one or more within-range cell towers so as to receive incoming calls. Thus, location data about all phones in an area are available, either directly from GPS equipped phones, or by cell tower, cell sector, distance from tower and triangulation methods. This permits the cell phones of a geographical region to serve as an ad hoc mobile sensor net, measuring the movement and calling patterns of the population. A prototype system, WIPER, serves as a test bed to research open DDDAS design issues, including dynamic validation of simulations, algorithms to interpret high volume data streams, ensembles of simulations, runtime execution, middleware services, and experimentation frameworks [1].
UR - http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?scp=37249082666&partnerID=8YFLogxK
U2 - 10.1007/978-3-540-72584-8_143
DO - 10.1007/978-3-540-72584-8_143
M3 - Conference contribution
AN - SCOPUS:37249082666
SN - 9783540725831
T3 - Lecture Notes in Computer Science (including subseries Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence and Lecture Notes in Bioinformatics)
SP - 1090
EP - 1097
BT - Computational Science - ICCS 2007 - 7th International Conference, Proceedings, Part I
PB - Springer Verlag
Y2 - 27 May 2007 through 30 May 2007
ER -