Identifying crisis scenarios faster with artificial intelligence

In a globally interconnected and dynamic world, crises are inevitable and difficult to predict, but require rapid and effective management. Over the past decade, various crises have impacted society, the economy and the environment worldwide, including the COVID-19 pandemic, the earthquakes in Turkey and Syria, the devastating forest fires in 2023 and the increasing vulnerability of global supply chains. With machine learning, predictive analytics and natural language processing, artificial intelligence offers new ways to collect, analyze and interpret large amounts of data in real time. This makes it possible to identify emerging crises at an early stage, predict their potential impact, develop response strategies and implement them effectively.

The PAIRS project deals with AI-based crisis management. AI and data-driven Smart Crisis Management Services are intended to support companies, governments, health organizations and civil defense in switching from a reactive to a more proactive position, anticipating crises and mitigating their effects. At the Saarland joint stand (Stand B10) in Hall 2, the researchers will be presenting various PAIRS services for the domains of civil defense, production & supply chains and energy: Social Signal Detection (identification of crisis indicators in social media and newspaper articles), Outage Predictor (prediction of unplanned, regional power outages), Hidden Problem Detector (identification of shortage trends in component-based supply chains), Crisis Imaginator (identification of potential black-swan events) and Operations Planning (AI-based deployment planning in civil defense).