Humans´ Critical Role in Smart Systems: A Smart Firefighting Example

Author

Jones, Albert ; Subrahmanian, Eswaran ; Hamins, Anthony ; Grant, Casey

Volume

19

Issue

3

fYear

2015

fDate

May-June 2015

Firstpage

28

Lastpage

31

Abstract

Smart systems are everywhere. They have the unique ability to optimize their performance under a variety of inputs and recover quickly from a wide variety of disturbances. This ability depends on both the cognitive and physical capabilities of such systems. Currently available cyber technologies have dramatically increased the cognitive capabilities of machines. As these technologies advance, so will those cognitive capabilities. This means that humans and machines can work more collaboratively, as joint partners, to execute those capabilities. Here, a system is described that takes advantage of such technologies to deploy a smart firefighting approach.

Keywords

emergency management; fires; human computer interaction; smart firefighting; smart system; Computational modeling; Cyber-physical systems; Fires; Human factors; Integrated circuit modeling; Predictive models; Sensor phenomena and characterization; CPSS; Internet/Web technologies; PCS; cyber-physical-social systems; joint cognitive systems; physical-cyber-social computing; smart firefighting; smart systems; standards;

fLanguage

English

Journal_Title

Internet Computing, IEEE

Publisher

ieee

ISSN

1089-7801

Type

jour

DOI

10.1109/MIC.2015.54

Filename

7111866