Yefeng Ma^a, Hui Zhang^b

Intelligent Automation & Soft Computing, Vol.24, No.1, pp. 107-114, 2018, DOI:10.1080/10798587.2016.1267249

Abstract Emerging communication and computing technologies such as social media, Internet of Things and big data provide great opportunities to improve information management systems for emergency operations. This paper studies the issues of information management at China’s Emergency Operations Center (EOC), and proposes a data-driven knowledge management system (KMS) to support decisionmaking, coordination, and collaboration within EOCs and with the public. In the proposed KMS, big data analytics is employed to gather and analyze information from different knowledge domains and track how a crisis evolves in physical world and in cyber space. The proposed system aims at improving situation awareness of… More >

Xinzhi Wang^a, Yi Liu^b, Hui Zhang^a, Qiuju Ma^a, Zhidong Cao^c

Intelligent Automation & Soft Computing, Vol.24, No.1, pp. 89-96, 2018, DOI:10.1080/10798587.2016.1267246

Abstract Public health emergency is governed by the physical rules, which are related to the propagation of diseases in the physical space, and the social rules, which are related to government structures, social behaviors, and social media in cyber space. Effective preparedness and response of public health emergency is strongly related to interoperation, collaboration and cooperation among different levels of government agencies and among different regions, as well as information flow and data mining between agencies and general public. In this paper, we review the technologies using multi-source data for public health emergency in China. At the micro-level, risk analysis and… More >