Title:	USING DATA-PUSH FOR THE DESIGN OF A PERSONALIZED FOREST FIRE EVACUATION GRID SERVICE
Author(s):	Nik Bessis , Eleana Asimakopoulou
ISBN:	978-972-8924-78-2
Editors:	Piet Kommers and Pedro Isaías
Year:	2009
Edition:	1
Keywords:	Sustainable society, Grid technologies, Disaster management, Distributed data integration, Data push,.
Type:	Full Paper
First Page:	59
Last Page:	68
Language:	English
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Paper Abstract:	Effective and efficient forest fire evacuation services often require data integration from heterogeneous and distributed sources. When such situations occur, gathering as many relevant as timely data is particularly critical. Recent forest fires occurred in Southern Europe including Portugal, France, Italy and Greece caused environmental destruction and a number of fatalities. Apart from the fact that people require receiving regular training and consequently maturely responding to the orders provided by relevant emergency co-ordination units and their rescue services, most fatalities occurred because victims have been surrounded from the raging fire and were not aware of available evacuation routes. Evidently, forest fires will occur if drought and consecutive heat waves during summer periods will continue and be considered as one of the causes for their occurrence. These are in turn suggesting the need for further work in the area of advanced evacuation systems when a forest fire is in progress. Therefore, we are particularly interested with a notable practicality, namely how potential victims can be kept automatically informed of the most relevant evacuation routes in the most timely fashion so they can escape safely from a forest fire in progress. On the other hand, it is of critical importance for disaster managers keeping automatically informed of fresh changes – occurred at various distributed sources – of their direct interest, which will influence their decisions in the most positive way and thus, produce, issue and push relevant available evacuation routes to people of an affected area in the most timely manner. With this in mind, we go on to describe in detail the design and architecture for a relevant forest fire evacuation service using a matchmaking data push technique, wireless communications and grid technologies.
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