Emergency Management: Some Related Research Challenges

Dr. Adam will begin with an overview of the Infrastructure & Geophysical Division at the Science & Technology Directorate of the US Department of Homeland Security. He will continue then with a discussion of the ongoing research projects at the Rutgers University research center CIMIC (Center for Information Management, Integration and Connectivity). These projects focus on Emergency Management in the area of Homeland Security with the common research theme: secure, context sensitive, semantics aware and privacy preserving information sharing, integration, and analysis. Detailed discussion of some related specific research challenges as well as proposed approaches will be presented.