CORec-Cri: How collaborative and social technologies can help to contextualize crises?

TL;DR

This paper presents CORec-Cri, a system leveraging collaborative and social technologies to enhance crisis management by contextualizing affected areas and needs in real-time, thereby improving coordination and decision-making.

Contribution

The paper introduces CORec-Cri, a novel ontology-based recommender system that integrates social computing to support crisis contextualization and stakeholder collaboration.

Findings

System design supports decision-making and resource allocation.

Application examples demonstrate improved crisis contextualization.

Highlights the importance of social technologies in crisis response.

Abstract

Crisis situations can present complex and multifaceted challenges, often requiring the involvement of multiple organizations and stakeholders with varying areas of expertise, responsibilities, and resources. Acquiring accurate and timely information about impacted areas is crucial to effectively respond to these crises. In this paper, we investigate how collaborative and social technologies help to contextualize crises, including identifying impacted areas and real-time needs. To this end, we define CORec-Cri (Contextulized Ontology-based Recommender system for crisis management) based on existing work. Our motivation for this approach is two-fold: first, effective collaboration among stakeholders is essential for efficient and coordinated crisis response; second, social computing facilitates interaction, information flow, and collaboration among stakeholders. We detail the key components of our system design, highlighting its potential to support decision-making, resource allocation, and communication among stakeholders. Finally, we provide examples of how our system can be applied to contextualize crises to improve crisis management.