Enhancing Enterprise Information Systems Synergy in Disaster Management

Ovidiu Noran

2013

Abstract

Climate change-triggered catastrophic events appear to be steadily increasing in intensity and frequency. Proper preparation, response and recovery are essential in order to survive and recover from disasters. Un-fortunately however, the organizations responsible for delivering emergency response services often under-perform, mainly owing to the lack of proper collaboration (especially interoperation) of their information systems. This paper analyses disaster management-specific collaboration issues from an enterprise information systems perspective and proposes improvements based on advances in information systems and in-teroperability research, using an enterprise architecture perspective and artefacts in order to provide a sus-tainable holistic and life cycle-based solution.

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Noran O. (2013). Enhancing Enterprise Information Systems Synergy in Disaster Management . In Proceedings of the 15th International Conference on Enterprise Information Systems - Volume 3: ICEIS, ISBN 978-989-8565-61-7, pages 275-283. DOI: 10.5220/0004437202750283


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@conference{iceis13,
author={Ovidiu Noran},
title={Enhancing Enterprise Information Systems Synergy in Disaster Management},
booktitle={Proceedings of the 15th International Conference on Enterprise Information Systems - Volume 3: ICEIS,},
year={2013},
pages={275-283},
publisher={SciTePress},
organization={INSTICC},
doi={10.5220/0004437202750283},
isbn={978-989-8565-61-7},
}


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TY - CONF
JO - Proceedings of the 15th International Conference on Enterprise Information Systems - Volume 3: ICEIS,
TI - Enhancing Enterprise Information Systems Synergy in Disaster Management
SN - 978-989-8565-61-7
AU - Noran O.
PY - 2013
SP - 275
EP - 283
DO - 10.5220/0004437202750283