Abstract

The need for Emergency Management continually grows as the population and exposure to catastrophic failures increase. The ability to offer appropriate services at these emergency situations can be tackled through group communication mechanisms. The entities involved in the group communication include people, organizations, events, locations and essential services. Cloud computing is a “as a service” style of computing that enables on-demand network access to a shared pool of resources. So this work focuses on proposing a social cloud constituting group communication entities using an open source platform, Eucalyptus. The services are exposed as semantic web services, since the availability of machine-readable metadata (Ontology) will enable the access of these services more intelligently. The objective of this paper is to propose an Ontology-based Emergency Management System in a social cloud and demonstrate the same using emergency healthcare domain.

Highlights

  • Emergency management is a procedure to manage the hazardous situations in a way to get out of the impact of disaster

  • Still this may lead to resource constraints which can be resolved by Cloud Computing [17], a style of computing where massively scalable IT-related capabilities are provided “as a service” using Internet technologies

  • Such a concept in which Cloud Computing owned and maintained by a Social Network is called as Social Cloud

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Introduction

Emergency management is a procedure to manage the hazardous situations in a way to get out of the impact of disaster. The need for consumer-driven adoption of new technologies and functionalities has led to the development of social networking applications such as Facebook, MySpace and Flickr, which have gained tremendous popularity [7]. These sites resemble a reporting tool of social events by enabling users to share their information like photos and videos worldwide. The social interaction can be enabled in a social networking site by including web services Still this may lead to resource constraints which can be resolved by Cloud Computing [17], a style of computing where massively scalable IT-related capabilities are provided “as a service” using Internet technologies. An economical and interactive Emergency Management System can be realized in a Social Cloud

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