A Collaborative Information System Architecture for Process-Based Crisis Management

  • Authors:
  • Omar Tahir;Eric Andonoff;Chihab Hanachi;Christophe Sibertin-Blanc;Frédérick Benaben;Vincent Chapurlat;Thomas Lambolais

  • Affiliations:
  • IRIT Laboratory, University of Toulouse, Toulouse Cedex, France 31042;IRIT Laboratory, University of Toulouse, Toulouse Cedex, France 31042;IRIT Laboratory, University of Toulouse, Toulouse Cedex, France 31042;IRIT Laboratory, University of Toulouse, Toulouse Cedex, France 31042;DRGI, Ecole des Mines d'Albi-Carmaux, ALBI Cedex 9, France 81013;Laboratoire de Génie Informatique et d'Ingénierie de Production (LGI2P), Parc Scientifique G. Besse, site EERIE-EMA, Númes cedex 1, France 30035;Laboratoire de Génie Informatique et d'Ingénierie de Production (LGI2P), Parc Scientifique G. Besse, site EERIE-EMA, Númes cedex 1, France 30035

  • Venue:
  • KES '08 Proceedings of the 12th international conference on Knowledge-Based Intelligent Information and Engineering Systems, Part III
  • Year:
  • 2008

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Abstract

In computer-based crisis management, participating actors have to put in common their information systems (IS). One of the main issues they have to face is to interoperate and coordinate these ISs in order to ease their collaborations and take the right decisions at the right moment. For that, they have to set up a Collaborative Information System (CIS) for orchestrating a Collaborative Process (CP) whose activities are performed by the participating ISs. The aim of this paper is to define the functional requirements of such a CIS and then to propose a conceptual architecture meeting these requirements. This architecture supports a perception-decision-action iteration for crisis reduction. Indeed, it provides means to capture information about the impacted real world, to support the definition and the adaptation of the CP managing the crisis reduction, and to coordinate and assign to each participant the actions to be undertaken. These actions modify the real world and lead to perform a new iteration until the crisis resolution.