Mobile computing in urban emergency situations: Improving the support to firefighters in the field

Expert Systems with Applications

Volumn 38, Issue 2, 2011, Pages 1255-1267

  Monares, Álvaro ^a,b   Ochoa, Sergio F ^b   Pino, José A ^b   Herskovic, Valeria ^b   Rodriguez Covili, Juan ^b   Neyem, Andrés ^c  

^a Nunoa Command Center and 2nd Fire Company   (Chile)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CHILE   (Chile)

^c PONTIFICIA UNIVERSIDAD CATÓLICA DE CHILE   (Chile)

Author keywords

Communication support; Decision support system; Emergency support; Mobile collaborative application; Mobile computing

Indexed keywords

AD-HOC COMMUNICATION; COLLABORATIVE APPLICATION; COMMUNICATION PROBLEMS; COMMUNICATION SOLUTIONS; COMMUNICATION SUPPORT; DECISION SUPPORTS; DIGITAL INFORMATION; EMERGENCY SITUATION; EMERGENCY SUPPORT; FIRE COMPANY; LATIN AMERICANS; RADIO CHANNELS; RESEARCH AND DEVELOPMENT; RESPONSE PROCESS;

ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE; COMMUNICATION SYSTEMS; DECISION MAKING; DECISION SUPPORT SYSTEMS; DECISION THEORY; DIGITAL RADIO; DISTRIBUTED COMPUTER SYSTEMS; FIRE EXTINGUISHERS; MOBILE COMPUTING; MOBILE DEVICES;

MOBILE AD HOC NETWORKS;

EID: 77957275518     PISSN: 09574174     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.eswa.2010.05.018     Document Type: Conference Paper

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