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- Title
CONTEMPORARY TRENDS IN INFORMATION SUPPORT FOR CRISIS MANAGEMENT.
- Authors
Kirov, Georgi
- Abstract
The reserach regards scientific, technical, and organization problems in the crisis management. The report is dedicated to an implementation of the network-centric approach (NCA) for management of complex heterogeneous systems, which involves experts, information, devices and services connected through a common communication and information environment (ICIE). The application of new, high-tech information approaches in the overall implementation of the network-centric approach is a crucially important mechanism, which sets a new, higher level to the inter-institutional mechanisms of complex decision-making. Crisis management has become more and more complex and science-consuming since the information flows have increased considerably as well as the requirements to both crisis management leaders and their teams in view of the thorough scientific training they must have acquired. The scientific research in the field of crisis management in EU is aimed at establishing innovative approaches, based on contemporary information technologies, which can compile, process and distribute various data/information. The analysis of the present scientific research in EU clearly indicates a tendency of transforming the crisis management mechanism into an integrated information package, which is able to simultaneously tackle communication functions side by side with various other services within an integrated (common) communication and information environment. The analysis of the current capacities has shown that the national crisis management mechanism is of insufficient operational compatibility with the international practices and systems. In order the scientific potential to be used to the maximum of its capacity in view of the accomplished research work and the investments made, an information and communication infrastructure is necessary to be built providing operational compatibility of all segments within the crisis management system. The research aims at developing reference model of network-centric information environment providing operational compatibility between all segments within the crisis management system. The proposed environment will provide software resources for gathering, exchange, analysis and distribution of information. This will allow officials from various institutions to exchange updated data on current changes in a particular situation, to come up with adequate solutions, as well as to pass on instructions for their interaction. The complexity of the investigated problem call for applying an interdisciplinary approach, combining a methodological decision-making framework of NCA with the capacities of the distributed IT for information exchange. The effect from the proposed environment is aimed at transforming the crisis management mechanism into an integrated information package, which is able to provide communication functions and services within an ICIE. The results will be in accordance with UE recommendations for operation compatibility of the national crisis management mechanism with the international practices and systems and use of the scientific potential in the maximum of its capacity in view of the accomplished research work and the investments made.
- Subjects
CRISIS management; EUROPEAN Union; INFORMATION technology; INFORMATION sharing; NETCENTRIC computing; GOVERNMENT liability
- Publication
Knowledge: International Journal, 2021, Vol 49, Issue 5, p991
- ISSN
2545-4439
- Publication type
Article