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Trang 1Introduction to Collaborative Technology for
Coordinating Crisis Management (CT2CM) track of
WETICE-2011, Paris, France
Chihab Hanachi
Toulouse 1 University,
IRIT Laboratory
2 rue Doyen Gabriel Marty,
31042 Toulouse Cedex, France
hanachi@univ-tlse1.fr
Franc¸ois Charoy
LORIA-INRIA-CNRS, Universit´e de Lorraine Vandoeuvre-l`es-Nancy Cedex, France
charoy@loria.fr
Serge Stinckwich
IFI, MSI team IRD, UMI 209 UMMISCO Institut de la Francophonie pour l’Informatique,
42 Ta Quang Buu, Hanoi, Vietnam Vietnam National University, Hanoi, Vietnam
INTRODUCTION TO THE SESSION
In crisis situations (natural or industrial disasters, riots, ),
the different actors managing crisis resolution have to act
simultaneously in emergency to reduce its impacts on the
real world To achieve this common goal as effectively and
efficiently as possible, these actors (police, military forces,
medical organizations, non-governmental organizations but
also emerging groups) have to collaborate and act in a
coordi-nated way In the term coordination, we include all the work
needed for the actors, for the connected integration of their
information systems and also for the flexible synchronization
of their efforts, in order to handle the crisis in the most efficient
way This coordination may occur during all the phases of a
crisis, from the mitigation to the recovery phase
Coordination raises several problems such as the definition
of the universe of discourse, without which it would be
impos-sible to solve the various semantic conflicts that are bound to
occur between several autonomous and heterogeneous actors
and their Information Systems It involves the finding of
partners, emergent partners integration, their collective
deci-sions, partners plans negotiation and the synchronization of
the distributed and concurrent execution of their actions and
plans
Moreover, in a highly dynamic, open, unstable and
un-certain environment, such as the one met in crisis context,
coordination should be rethought to be more reactive,
pro-active, adaptive, robust and visible for all the partners while
preserving the essential part of their autonomy
In this context, organizations have developed in the
years several team collaboration tools like SAHANA (http://
sahanafoundation.org/) or the WORKPAD infrastructure (http:
//www.workpad-project.eu/) based on information and
com-munication technologies, that facilitate the distribution of
control and information exchanges and gathering useful to
crisis coordination
Giving this context, the aim of this track is to examine
how collaborative technologies can simplify coordination and
interworking between the different actors involved in the crisis management and its resolution It may concern the crisis management team, the actors on the field as well as their interactions It may concern also all the phases of the crisis resolution
This track features 4 regular papers and one short paper selected from 8 submissions
SUMMARY OF SELECTED PAPERS
• (1) Lydia Kraus, Mladen Stanojevic, Nikola Tomasevic and Vuk Mijovic, A Decision Support System for Building Evacuation based on the EMILI SITE envi-ronment
• (2) J¨orn Franke, Franc¸ois Charoy and Cedric Ulmer, Handling Conflicts in Autonomous Coordination of Distributed Collaborative Activities (short paper)
• (3) Daouda Kamissoko, Franc¸ois Peres and Pascale Zarat´e, Infrastructure Network Vulnerability
• (4) Omar Gaci and Herv´e Mathieu, Deployment of Com-municating Objects for A Dynamic Risk Management
in Warehouse of Dangerous Goods
• (5) Cl´audio Sapateiro, Ant´onio Ferreira and Pedro An-tunes, Evaluating the Use of Mobile Devices in Critical Incidents Response: A Microworld Approach The selected papers cover the following three main issues : Cooperative Information Gathering, Risks and Vulnerability, and Team Awareness
Cooperative Information Gathering During a crisis, taking the right decision at the right time, considering the correct situation is crucial Lives are at stake and even recent experiences show that under the pressure of
a crisis or of an emergency, errors are costly and most of the time not recoverable This is why it is so important, both
in the preparation phase and in the mitigation phase to make available the best information and the best tools so that each kind of stakeholder can take the best informed decision Two
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Trang 2papers in this session aim to provide support to people to get
a more accurate information in order to take better decisions
The first one by Lydia Kraus et al (1) describes a decision
support systems that help to determine the best evacuation
path in case of emergency in large critical infrastructure such
as airports Evacuation paths can be calculated in advance
based on general data, but the event causing the emergency, the
number of people on site and their location may have a deep
impact on the most efficient way to evacuate a building and to
avoid people to rush into deadly traps (blocked doors, burning
stairs) The authors proposes to use all the knowledge available
regarding the building and the situation, using event detected
by the building appliances (smoke detectors, heat detectors) to
generate dynamic evacuation plan This relies in the end on
the availability of dynamic signs to propose to people the right
direction to take at the right time This is an important trends
that combine high end algorithmics with network of sensors to
provide the right information at the right time, and potentially
saving life
This is the kind of information that would be required
by the stakeholder in crisis management that have to take
decisions about the action to conduct in order to mitigate
a crisis situation as described in the second paper by J¨orn
Franke et al (2) Here again, providing the right information
to the right people of different organisation is considered as
the key for providing a timely answer to unforeseen events
Here, the emphasis is put on ensuring that people from
different organisations have the same view on what is going
on and more precisely on the potential conflicts that may
occur between their respective views During a crisis, a lot of
problems occur because of wrong expectation of stakeholder
regarding the outcome of the actions conducted by others One
may expect that a road is closed where another decided to
reopen it Based on a distributed activity model, the authors
of this paper propose to detect and resolve inconsistency
or conflicts between the view of different users on a given
situation, from the activity perspective Their approach tries
to ensure that at least stakeholders are aware of that they are
considering a conflicting view on an activity The expectation
is that considering this information, they will communicate to
resolve the situation Combined with some advanced decision
support system, there is no doubt that this kind of approach
could some day make a difference
Risks and vulnerability
Societies depends now on complex infrastructure and
espe-cially on technological networks like the one usually found
in transportation, energy, or telecommunications, The work
presented in the paper from Daouda Kamissoko and al (3)
aims to propose a methodology of analyzing infrastructure
network vulnerability in the field of prevention or reduction
of the natural disaster consequences This analysis should
be done at design or execution time The authors defines
vulnerability and risks according to three elements:
Popula-tion affected by hazard, Territory where infrastructures lies
(including technological networks) and Hazard, natural or
human phenomena not under control After a state of the art
on networks and vulnerability models in the academic liter-ature, several vulnerability factors are discussed Eventually,
a general model of vulnerability analysis including societal parameters is presented
Omar Gaci and al (4) presents some results from the euro-pean research RESCUE-IT project The aim of this project is
to propose new means to model and improve the supply chain security and resilience where involved partners collaborate to create risk management policies The supply chain studied
is a warehouse located in France that stored very dangerous chemical goods like aerosol or fertilizer These goods are monitored in real time thanks to communicating objects like RFIDs tags and sensors This surveillance helps to coordinate dynamic risk management policies in order to respect storage constraints, forklift cargo falls and rack failures Data gathered
by sensors are stored in a centralized Information System with filters and treats them Alerts and specific procedures can be triggered in case of constraint storages are not respected or if the rack structure is damaged
Team Awareness Team Awareness is probably a precondition for an efficient coordination and notably for ensuring a coherent behavior of team members, the sharing of their resources and the distribu-tion of their tasks The paper written by Cl´audio Sapateiro et
al (5) studies the influence of mobile devices (such as VoIP, PDA) on team situation awareness and performance in critical incidents response A microworld environment is used for sup-porting scenarios and experimentations The work is illustrated with helpdesk teams solving computer network failures Also, the paper provides a comprehensive and coherent literature survey on situation awareness and team situation awareness
ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS
We thank all members of the program committee for their careful work in reviewing and selecting the contributions
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