Collaborative, Complex and Critical Decision-Support in
Evolving Crises
QMUL Aims
To research and develop innovative middleware to
support interaction between sensors, devices, services and people for
deployment during physical environment crises to enable:
·
A resilient and scalable distributed network
infrastructure to support human-to-human interaction (including social
networking), machine-to-machine interaction (including automated sensor data acquisition,
knowledge mining and decision support) and HMI and support multimedia content
exchange.
- Testbed and system evaluation
- Knowledge Base and Decision Support interfaces for
interaction with the TRIDEC Core System
Flexible distributed
middleware services, capable of supporting Tsunami and Drilling scenarios.
Success will be measured through the deployment of TRIDEC components in the
scenario testbeds for Tsunami and Drilling:
- Initial deployment will verify the coherency of the
TRIDEC architecture, and its ability to cover all required elements of
these scenarios
- Final deployment will verify the applicability to Tsunami
and Drilling
scenario
- Construction of a robust, scalable service
infrastructure supporting the integration and utilisation of existing resources
including distributed sensor systems, monitoring facilities, and
geo-information repositories as well as simulation, processing, and data
fusion systems.
- Development of services for the flexible management and
configuration of system resources especially sensor systems including the
configuration of discrete sensor networks and tasking of sensors in order
to realise intelligent observation and monitoring strategies
- Development of two application prototypes for the
validation of the TRIDEC system firstly for hypothetical, simulated
tsunami events (environmental crisis management) and secondly for the
monitoring and management of drilling processes at an exploration well
(Industrial Subsurface Development).
Funding
Project acronym: TRIDEC
Project full title: Collaborative,
Complex and Critical Decision-Support in Evolving Crises
Grant agreement no.: FP7 258723
Duration: from 1st September 2010
for 36 months
Funding: EU IST FP7 Call 5
Research area: ICT-2009.4.3
Intelligent Information Management
Project Web Site: http://tridec.gfz-potsdam.de/
QMUL Achievements (to date)
The main achievements are the completion of these WP3 tasks
- WP3.1 Technology Review
- WP3.2 Thematic and System Requirements Analysis
- WP3.3 Arch. Design & Development Life-Cycle
Modelling
- WP3.4 Resilience, Performance and Scalability
Modelling
- WP3.5 Middleware Components Design &
Implementation
- WP3.6 System Integration & Application
Support
- WP3.7 System Testbed
& Implementation Evaluation
And contributions to these ones
- WP4.2 Architectural and Knowledge-based design
- WP4.3 Implementation of semantic services
QMUL Participants
Research Assistants
- Ran Tao: (lead developer)
For participants in other organisations see http://tridec.gfz-potsdam.de/
Publications (QMUL)
- Wang X, Tokarchuk
L, Yun Liu, Cuadrado F
and Poslad, S. Exploiting Hashtags
for Adaptive Microblog
Crawling. IEEE/ACM International Conference on Social Networks Analysis
and Mining (ASONAM 2013), Ontario, Canada in August 2013.
- Tao R, Poslad S, Bigham J. Resilient Delay
Sensitive Load Management in Environment Crisis Messaging Systems. ICSNC
2013, October 27-November 1, 2013, Venice, Italy.
- Middleton S.E, Sabeur Z.A., Lowe P, Hammitzsch
M, Tavakoli S, Poslad
S. Multi-disciplinary
Approaches To Intelligently Sharing Large-Volumes Of Real-Time Sensor Data
During Natural Disasters, Data Science Journal, 2013, Vol. 12, pp 109-113.
See also this cartoon strip about
social-networking during environment crises.
More Information about the TRIDEC Project
TRIDEC is an Integrated
Project focusing on new approaches and technologies for intelligent
geo-information management in collaborative, complex and critical decision
processes in earth management. The key objective in TRIDEC is the design and
implementation of a collaboration infrastructure of interoperable services
through which intelligent management of dynamically increasing volumes and
dimensionality of information and data is efficiently supported thus enabling
multiple decision makers to respond quickly via a collaborative
decision-support environment.
TRIDEC will establish rapid, on-demand interoperability of inherited legacy
applications and tools owned by the project consortium partners and by using
collaborative computing make them work together to establish the
decision-support enterprise system of services which can critically deliver
timely information to decision makers during environmental crisis such as
tsunamis or during the drilling process of an exploration well. Environmental
crisis and subsurface utilisation are only two examples of the applicability of
the proposed research which integrates software services development,
computational methods with collaborative technologies.
The main objectives of the
TRIDEC IP include:
- Construction
of a robust, scalable service infrastructure supporting the integration
and utilisation of existing resources including distributed sensor
systems, monitoring facilities, and geo-information repositories as well
as simulation, processing, and data fusion systems. This part is led
by QMUL.
- Development of services for the flexible management and
configuration of system resources especially sensor systems including the
configuration of discrete sensor networks and tasking of sensors in order
to realise intelligent observation and monitoring strategies
- Design and implementation of a knowledge-base for
intelligent information management providing essential context information
for the aggregation, storage and retrieval of large volumes of information
e.g. about system components, prognostic models, rules, data and
information models, ontologies, as well as past crisis events and
simulated data for system tests
- Construction of tools for the design and execution of
complex information logistic processes and workflows steering ingest and
fusion of data as well as rules for the selection of context information
delivered by the TRIDEC knowledge-base.
- Design and implementation of an adaptable framework for
collaboration and decision-support environments supporting complex
business processes including both the intelligent management of crisis
situations and the systematic testing of system features and training of
decision makers.
- Development of two application prototypes for the
validation of the TRIDEC system firstly for hypothetical, simulated
tsunami events (environmental crisis management) and secondly for the
monitoring and management of drilling processes at an exploration well
(Industrial Subsurface Development).