Ubiquitous Computing for Personalized Decision Support in Emergency

Ubiquitous computing opens new possibilities in various aspects of human activities. The paper proposes an approach to emergency situation response that benefits from the ubiquitous computing. The approach is based on utilizing profiles to facilitate the coordination of the activities of the emergency response operation members. The major approach underlying idea is to represent the operation members jointly with information sources as a network of services that can be configured via negotiation of participating parties. Such elements as profile structure, role-based emergency response, negotiation scenarios, and negotiation protocols are described in detail.