Information Systems for Crisis Response and Management.

Improving our knowledge of and capabilities to handle disasters and crises is not simply a matter of more information processing and more reliable communication and computation. It needs the exchange of information between many different scientific and technology disciplines and a much better understanding of engineering complex C4I systems-of-systems. This discussion paper will address the need for and purpose of an international community and how to obtain focus and transfer of scientific results. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]