This project has received funding from the European Union’s Seventh Framework Programme for research, technological development and demonstration under grant agreement no 607729.
2016 publications
Attention is drawn to the following 2016 C2-SENSE publications:
Automating the Development and Implementation of Interoperability Profiles
(Accepted)
Mert Gencturk (SRDC), Matteo Redaelli (Lutech), Yildiray Kabak (SRDC), Gokce Banu Lalelic Erturkmen (SRDC), Raul Arisi (Lutech) and Lorenzo Toscano (Lutech)
For the 8th International Conference: Interoperability for Enterprise Systems and Applications (IESA 2016), Guimarães, Portugal. March 29 – April 01, 2016.
Abstract: In order to solve the interoperability problem among disparate systems and address the drawbacks and challenges in existing profiling approach, in this paper, an automated way to develop and implement interoperability profiles is introduced. We introduce a collaborative environment where profiles can easily be defined by following some step-by-step guidelines through an online tool and customized to specific organizations and incidences quickly through automatically generated business processes and templates. We also introduce a semantic metadata registry (MDR) concept to amend the content standards, invent a profile definition language (PDL) to represent the profiles digitally, and use Business Process Modelling Notation (BPMN) to define business processes to be executed.
Emergency Maps Tool – Fascilitating Collaboration and Decision Making During Emergency & Crisis Situation
(Accepted)
Gerald Schimak (AIT), Peter Kutschera (AIT), Refiz Duro (AIT) and Katharina Kutschera (AIT)
For the 8th International Congress on Environmental Modelling and Software (iEMS 2016), Toulouse, France. July 10-14, 2016.
Abstract: The Emergency Maps Tool (EMT) has been developed as part of a collaboration environment in the C2 – SENSE Emergency Interoperability Framework. The collaboration environment aims to connect all relevant organizations for joint response in emergency and crises situations. The Emergency Maps Tool aims to display all relevant resources (e.g., authorities, organization, points and object of interests, messages, etc.) involved or of special importance, in order to allow proper decision making. EMT allows decision makers to set and monitor activities, send and receive event related messages but also to include ad-hoc information from sensors or sensor networks (e.g., water monitoring sensors in case of flooding).Backbone of this tool is a data, communication and collaboration model realized in a flexible, configurable and extendable way. That means new, so-called “Objects of Interest (OOI)”, can be added on the fly and displayed by the EMT. In principle, such OOIs can be everything, spanning from metadata of responsible authorities to civil protection departments up to alarms, pure measurement values stemming from sensors, or information/messages about blocked roads as well as number of endangered peoples at aspecific location. This approach and the robust architectural solution of the C2-SENSE Framework provide solutions to several challenges in the domain of decision making in a crisis and emergency situation.
Collaboration and Decision Making Tool for Emergency & Crisis Situationsn
(Accepted)
Gerald Schimak (AIT), Refiz Duro (AIT) and Peter Kutschera (AIT)
For the IDRC 2016 Integrative Risk Management – towards resiliant cities conference (IDRC_2016), Davos, Switzerland. August 28- September 01, 2016.
Abstract: A proper collaboration environment is of utmost importance for crises managers as well as decision makers to get continuous and accurate information about the crises situation and to manage the available resources on the fly. Interoperability of existing systems, tools, methods and standardized processes are needed to allow effective management of emergencies, crises and disasters. Emergency Management and decision making tools shall support and monitor all activities between the evolved actors (e.g. authorities, first responders, volunteers, etc.). In an European funded project called C2- SENSE (Interoperability Profiles for Command/Control Systems and Sensor Systems in Emergency Management) a tool, called Emergency Maps Tool (EMT), has been developed as part of a broader collaboration environment in the C2-SENSE Emergency Interoperability Framework. This tool aims to display all relevant resources (e.g. authorities, organization, object of interests (like roads, railways, bridges), messages, alarms, etc.) involved or of special importance, in order to allow proper management of the crises situation. EMT allows decision makers to set and monitor activities, send and receive event related messages but also to include ad-hoc information from sensors or sensor networks (e.g. water monitoring sensors in case of flooding). Backbone of this tool is a data, communication and collaboration model realized in a flexible, configurable and extendable way. That means new, so-called “Objects of Interest (OOI)”, can be added on the fly and displayed by the EMT. In principle, such OOIs can be everything, spanning from metadata of responsible authorities to civil protection departments up to alarms, pure measurement values stemming from sensors, or information/messages about blocked roads as well as number of endangered peoples at a specific location.
