Designing Emergency Response Pipelines : Lessons and Challenges
  Emergency response to incidents such as accidents, crimes, and fires is a
major problem faced by communities. Emergency response management comprises of
several stages and sub-problems like forecasting, resource allocation, and
dispatch. The design of principled approaches to tackle each problem is
necessary to create efficient emergency response management (ERM) pipelines.
Over the last six years, we have worked with several first responder
organizations to design ERM pipelines. In this paper, we highlight some of the
challenges that we have identified and lessons that we have learned through our
experience in this domain. Such challenges are particularly relevant for
practitioners and researchers, and are important considerations even in the
design of response strategies to mitigate disasters like floods and
earthquakes.
