International Workshop on
Emergency Management through Service Oriented Architectures
co located with the ServiceWave 2010 Conference

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Final program

10.00 -- 10.15 Opening (Pierluigi Plebani -- Workshop Co-chair)
10.15 -- 13.00 Paper Session I (with 30' of coffee break in the middle)
  Uwe Krüger, Aygul Gabdulkhakova, Clemens Beckstein and Birgitta König-Ries
Semantic Services for Information and Management Support in Mass Casualty Incident Scenarios
  Ouejdane Mejri
Information Conceptualization for Emergency Management
  Roberto Gimenez, Inmaculada Luengo, Anna Mereu, Diego Gimenez, Rosa Ana Casar, Judith Pertejo, Salvador Díaz, Jose F. Monserrat, Vicente Osa, Javier Herrera, Maria Amor Ortega and Iñigo Arizaga
PROSIMOS (PRiority communications for critical SItuations on MObile networkS)
13.00 -- 14.00 Lunch break
14.00 -- 15.45 Paper Session II
  John Krogstie
Active Knowledge Modeling supporting Mitigation Activities
 

MIchele Angelaccio
A JXTA-based Peer Architecture for enhanced service discovery in SOA-based P2P Applications
15.45 -- 16.00 Coffee break
16.00 -- 17.15: Invited talk
  Massimiliano de Leoni
Process-aware Information Systems for Emergency Management
17.15 -- 18.00 Discussion

 

Motivation and objectives

Emergency Management Information Systems (EMISs), usually employed in the Emergency Operation Centers (EOCs), provide a set of ICT tools for supporting the emergency management process during its entire lifecycle: mitigation, preparedness, response, and recovery phases. More specifically, during the pre-event phases, emergency operators can take advantage of an EMIS for designing a contingency scenario and deriving the related contingency plan. Likewise, during emergency, information systems guide the involved EOC operators through the execution of the contingency plan workflows. At the current stage, the presence of diverse EMISs accessible to heterogeneous users and stakeholders both in expertise and in specializations generates in a non-crisis time the collection of a huge amount of disaggregated data and misaligned procedures that may cause, in an emergency context, failing results. In addition, in multi-hazard and multi-risk scenarios, the collection of disaster agent-generated requests changes as time passes from the time of impact; requests associated with initial impact may decline while new demands arise from secondary threats. These changes occurring over time may be associated to information and/or operation management needs. Moreover, the coordination of actors on the fields require flexible approaches based on collaborative tools supporting processes and access to services. ICT solutions for emergency management need to cope with these dynamic scenarios by proposing methods and tools for integrating heterogeneous systems. In this scenario, service orientation is considered as the most promising paradigm to make the integration possible.

Goal of this workshop is to bring together researchers and practitioners in the area of emergency management in order to improve these current approaches. In particular, crisis and risk management requires a flexible EMIS architecture, easily customizable, to support people on the field by considering the actual characteristics of the disruptive event that has occurred. This architecture needs to involve the adoption of emergent technologies, such as lightweight and highly configurable multi-agent systems, service oriented solutions in mobile environments , or ad-hoc sensor networks. In addition, it is fundamental to have an enriched information management that allows the collection, the classification and the extraction of data throughout the overall amount of information inflowing into the process. Such information regards data not only coming from sensor networks and connected EMIS, but also gathered from external and not-supervised data sources as Web sites and Social Networks.

Topics of interests

Topics of interest include, but are not limited to:

  • Service-based architectures for EMIS
  • Services supporting disaster management
  • Sensors as a Service
  • Adaptive service coordination and management
  • Data and service modelling for emergency scenarios
  • Ontologies and standards for emergency scenarios
  • Light and flexible approaches to integration
  • Grid-based systems for crisis management

Workshop Organizers

Massimo Mecella (SAPIENZA Università di Roma, Italy)
Pierluigi Plebani (Politecnico di Milano, Italy)