2nd International Workshop on Information Systems for Situation Awareness and Situation Management - ISSASiM 2012 - Preface

Situation management is a new discipline that is primarily driven by the advances of sensor networks, event management, and situation awareness. The main goal of situation management is to provide semantically rich real-time views of observed areas or objects as needed in various domains, for example, homeland security or disaster management. These views are based on sets of situations that are deduced from large-scale (integrated) real-time data sources by intelligent analysis. Dynamic workflows offer the possibility to predefine a plan for supporting decision makers and task forces in situation handling. The purpose of this workshop is to bring together researchers and practitioners from the field of situation management.