TY  - JOUR
PY  - 2013//
TI  - Knowledge management systems in support of disasters management: a two decade review
JO  - Technological forecasting and social change
A1  - Dorasamy, Magiswary
A1  - Raman, Murali
A1  - Kaliannan, Maniam
SP  - 1834
EP  - 1853
VL  - 80
IS  - 9
N2  - Humans are increasingly being challenged with numerous forms of man-made and natural emergency situations. Emergencies cannot be prevented, but they can be better managed. The successful management of emergency situations requires proper planning, guided response, and well-coordinated efforts across the emergency management life cycle. Literature suggests that emergency management efforts benefit from well-integrated knowledge-based emergency management information systems (EMIS). This study presents a systematic review of papers pertaining to the application of knowledge-driven systems in support of emergency management that have been published in the last two decades. Our review presents two major findings. First, only limited work has been done in three EMIS-knowledge management system (KMS) subdomains: (i) definition, (ii) use, and (iii) methods. Second, only limited research has been done in embedding roles in KM systems. We highlight role alignment to the 12 fundamental roles, as called for by Turoff et al. (2004), in the context of creating dynamic systems in aid of emergency management efforts. We believe that these two findings warrant the attention of the research community.<br><br>Copyright © 2012 Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.<p />  <p>Language: en</p>
LA  - en
SN  - 0040-1625
UR  - http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.techfore.2012.12.008
ID  - ref1
ER  -