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Where to Find Help When You Are in an Emergency?

HelpMe: A Guidance System for Self-rescue

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A variety of emergency situations may occur around us at any time in our daily life, especially in an unfamiliar place. For example, a tourist may seek medical treatment for an accidental wound or encounter a problem like running out of gasoline, raising the urgent requirements where to find specific services nearby for help. In this paper, we develop a guidance system, HelpMe, benefiting the mobile-phone user with self-rescue instructions when needed. HelpMe provides reasonable instructions by leveraging the urban transportation patterns discovered from massive historical trajectories of vehicles and an efficient route planning algorithm based on these patterns. Within the process of route planning, HelpMe introduces a novel reach-time-cost model to sort out the candidates of emergency service spots, such as hospital, police station and gas station and so on, as well as the fastest way to the destination. Capturing the current locations from a mobile phone, HelpMe can suggest the phone user where to find secured transport assurance with the highest probability and automatically guide you to the destination by the fastest route. Our experiments have revealed satisfactory conclusions and demonstrated the effectiveness of our system.

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Acknowledgments

This work was supported by the National Natural Science Foundation of China (No. 61202064), the National High Technology Research and Development Program of China (863 Program) (No. 2013AA01A603), and the Strategic Priority Research Program of the Chinese Academy of Sciences (No. XDA06010600).

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  1. University of Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing, 100049, China

    Jiahai Wu, Huangfu Yang & Xiaowei Gao

  2. Institute of Software, Chinese Academy of Sciences (CAS), Beijing, 100190, China

    Huangfu Yang, Xiaowei Gao & Kuien Liu

  3. Computer Network Information Center, CAS, Beijing, 100190, China

    Jiahai Wu

  4. Network and Information Center of Institute of Microbiology, CAS, Beijing, 100101, China

    Jiahai Wu & Juncai Ma

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  1. DEKE Lab., Renmin University of China, Beijing, China

    Yueguo Chen

  2. Institute for Information Systems, Technical University Braunschweig, Braunschweig, Germany

    Wolf-Tilo Balke

  3. Hong Kong Baptist University Dept. Computer Science, Kowloon Tong, Hong Kong SAR

    Jianliang Xu

  4. School of Information, Renmin University of China, Beijing, China

    Wei Xu

  5. School of Computer Science and Technology, Hefei, China

    Peiquan Jin

  6. Department of Computer Science, East China Normal University, Shanghai, China

    Xin Lin

  7. Department of Computer Science, Kean University, Wenzhou, China

    Tiffany Tang

  8. School of Electrical Engineering, Korea University, Seoul, Korea, Republic of (South Korea)

    Eenjun Hwang

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Wu, J., Yang, H., Gao, X., Ma, J., Liu, K. (2014). Where to Find Help When You Are in an Emergency?. In: Chen, Y., et al. Web-Age Information Management. WAIM 2014. Lecture Notes in Computer Science(), vol 8597. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-11538-2_4

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