SCC-IRG Track 2: Leveraging Smart Technologies and Managing Community Resilience through Networked Communities and Cross-Sector Partnerships

这项智能互联社区补助金将利用现有的社区伙伴关系和资源，并评估人工智能辅助的信息技术应用，以加强社区弹性管理。选择中东部佛罗里达地区（包括8个县和78个成员城镇/城市）作为该项目的试验平台，通过区域数据平台-社区弹性数据仓库（CoRD 2）来改善社区弹性实践。该项目建立在一个跨学科团队的基础上，由应急管理、公共管理、地理学、计算机科学、土木工程和运营管理等部门协同贡献，旨在通过可持续的伙伴关系，将佛罗里达州中东部地区和奥兰多大都市区的信息和通信能力提高到一个新的水平。评估实现适当的事后功能的程度和速度的指标将有助于满足全国范围内的社区能力建设需求，以定量评估公私伙伴关系提高复原力的情况。评估弹性变化的研究设计将有助于政府，企业，和非营利组织，以获得更深入的了解人工智能-辅助信息技术可以促进集体决策，以减少社区脆弱性和增强复原力。研究涉及开发一个综合框架，以评估智能技术的进步，促进社区伙伴关系，加强社区在复原力管理中的联系;填补研究空白，在建模社区伙伴关系的特点，并检查设计和实施网络跨部门合作伙伴的社区抗灾能力的努力;创建一个整体的方法来比较社区抗灾能力的功能变化的研究干预和实际的危害事件;和建设CoRD 2的抗灾能力数据共享和公共，私人和非营利部门之间的整合，以支持实时集体决策。这些新方法包括从行为调查、政策和计划文件、社交媒体帖子以及调查前/调查后的内部演练中收集和校准多维数据;从组织角度创建用于评估社区复原力的融合指标;提供下一代计算解决方案，用于处理区域数据平台中流入的灾害应对数据，作为峰值流入;该奖项反映了NSF的法定使命，并通过使用基金会的智力价值和更广泛的影响审查标准进行评估，被认为值得支持。

This Smart & Connected Communities grant will leverage existing community partnerships and resources and evaluate the information technology applications aided by artificial intelligence in enhancing community resilience management. The east central Florida region (including 8 counties and 78 member towns/cities) is selected as a testbed for this project to improve community resilience practices through a regional data platform – Community Resilience Data Depot (CoRD2). Built on an interdisciplinary team with synergistic contributions from Emergency Management, Public Administration, Geography, Computer Science, Civil Engineering, and Operation Management, the project aims to augment the information and communication capacity of the east central Florida region and the Orlando metropolitan area to the next level via a sustainable partnership. The metrics to assess the extent and speed of achieving appropriate post-event functionality will help address a nationwide community capacity building need to quantitatively evaluate resilience increases by public-private partnerships. The research design assessing resilience changes will help decision makers in governments, businesses, and nonprofits to obtain a deeper understanding of how artificial intelligence-aided information technologies can advance collective decision making to reduce community vulnerability and enhance resilience.The research involves developing an integrative framework to evaluate smart technology advances that foster community partnerships and enhance community connectedness in resilience management; filling research gaps in modeling community partnership characteristics and examining design and implementation networks among cross-sector partners for community resilience efforts; creating a holistic approach to comparing community resilience functionality changes by research intervention and an actual hazard event; and building CoRD2 for resilience data sharing and integration among public, private, and nonprofit sectors to support real-time collective decision making. The novel methodologies include collecting and calibrating multi-dimensional data from behavioral surveys, policy and plan documents, social media posts, and an in-house drill with pre-/post-surveys; creating converged metrics for evaluating community resilience from an organizational perspective; providing next-generation computational solutions for processing disaster response data flowing in the regional data platform as peak influxes; developing real-time machine learning algorithms and software capacities for social media big data analytics (texts and images); and modeling organizational resilience capacity and multidimensional community resilience functionality.This award reflects NSF's statutory mission and has been deemed worthy of support through evaluation using the Foundation's intellectual merit and broader impacts review criteria.