A Semantic Approach to Information Management and Decision Support: An Application to Humanitarian Demining Operations

This paper discusses an approach to information management and evidence based reasoning in the realm of hazardous contamination, particularly humanitarian demining. It proposes a system called HAIMS (Hazard Information Management System) to support the user when classifying and ranking the priority for further information gathering and/or operations (operations in this context can be mine clearance, technical surveys or non-technical surveys). This includes the use of semantic information system, evidence assessment and community impact from hazard contamination.