TORCIA - A Decision-support Collaborative Platform for Emergency Management

Chiara Francalanci, Paolo Giacomazzi

2015

Abstract

The TORCIA platform has been developed as part of a project funded by the Lombardy Region. The main goal of the project is the development of a tool that leverages social media in emergency management processes. With a continuous and real-time collection of information from social media, TORCIA can detect situations of potential emergency and identify their geographical position. The TORCIA platform supports emergency operators from different organizations and institutions with a decision-support dashboard and favors the creation of a collaborative process combining the contributions of citizens and institutions by means of a mobile app that is also integrated within the platform.

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Francalanci C. and Giacomazzi P. (2015). TORCIA - A Decision-support Collaborative Platform for Emergency Management . In Proceedings of 4th International Conference on Data Management Technologies and Applications - Volume 1: DATA, ISBN 978-989-758-103-8, pages 225-231. DOI: 10.5220/0005499202250231


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@conference{data15,
author={Chiara Francalanci and Paolo Giacomazzi},
title={TORCIA - A Decision-support Collaborative Platform for Emergency Management},
booktitle={Proceedings of 4th International Conference on Data Management Technologies and Applications - Volume 1: DATA,},
year={2015},
pages={225-231},
publisher={SciTePress},
organization={INSTICC},
doi={10.5220/0005499202250231},
isbn={978-989-758-103-8},
}


in EndNote Style

TY - CONF
JO - Proceedings of 4th International Conference on Data Management Technologies and Applications - Volume 1: DATA,
TI - TORCIA - A Decision-support Collaborative Platform for Emergency Management
SN - 978-989-758-103-8
AU - Francalanci C.
AU - Giacomazzi P.
PY - 2015
SP - 225
EP - 231
DO - 10.5220/0005499202250231