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Network
of Excellence
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CARiMan
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The
Internet Portal for Computer Aided Risk Management
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Responsible: AUT
Assistance: all
partners
Objective
To create a virtual
simulator for training Civil Protection agents. This will help to test the
emergency management prototype to create scenarios for different types of
hazards and at the same time to train the operational personnel to use a system
that only occasionally (hopefully) will be used in practice.
Technological or natural
disasters, although they may be of low frequency, may cause wide-spread damages.
To cope with such hazards involves a large number of people ranging from
technicians, firemen, health people who must respond in the shortest time.
Having all these people well integrated and prepared to act requires appropriate
and frequent training. The simulator to be created will have the capacity to
generate scenarios for the risk areas as well as for the response actions. The
approach to be followed may be based on the intelligent agent paradigm. The
multi-agents will simulate the complex behaviour of all actors in an emergency
situation: technicians, civil protection agents, defence forces, health
professionals, etc.
In CARiMan training is
considered as communication between two parts. Thus, we will examine two kind of
Communications: Communication between
Risk Manager – Risk Manager / student and Communication CARiManS - CARiManS for knowledge transfer
Communication Risk Manager – Risk Manager / student
This part of CARiManS aims
to spread high level knowledge among risk management professionals, to increase
the European common level of expertise, and (if possible) to set up new
practices of web collaboration among risk managers, students, researchers in
analysing, evaluating and taking decisions about monitored systems, while
respecting privacy policies and trusting everyone’s confidence in new
technologies instruments.
Through CARiMan the following objectives will be accomplished:
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To stimulate risk managers to share their own
expertise to colleagues, students, researchers by means of web based e-teaching
techniques. The Knowledge Management System (KMS), designed as s communicative
system acquiring knowledge from the leading risk managers in Europe, have to
realize that purpose.
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To teach risk management professionals, students
and researchers how to make full use of (and how to get confidence with) CATS to
improve their own competence acquiring the better knowledge available in their
fields of expertise.
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To assist risk management professionals in coping
with some major challenges, as risk situations management. Overall, the
integration into actual practices of advances (progresses) and higher standards
in risk management knowledge and confrontation is a noteworth objective.
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To network researchers and end-users together,
with the objective of contributing to the definition of a new generation of CAMS
and KMS, capable of assisting in the prevention, earliest individualisation,
detection and confrontation of emergencies. The adoption of more powerful and
flexible knowledge technologies that are semantic-based and context-aware should
prepare for the next generation web that give access to more effective and
creative digital contents.
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To allow the research for new software tools
supporting risk management professionals in taking promptly the best possible
decisions. Specific focus will be given to research around user-friendly, fast
and reliable tools providing access to heterogeneous information sources, and
also to new methods for decision support and risk analysis. The use of GRID and
open source technologies is encouraged where appropriate. The development of
open standards and open source software will be encouraged to ensure
interoperability of solutions and further innovation.
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To strengthen social cohesion by the development
of efficient, intelligent and easy to use systems for monitored systems and
signal recognition teaching & learning.
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To face trust and confidence problems so as to
improve dependability of technologies, infrastructures and applications. These
should ensure security, privacy, protection of people identity and respect of
individual rights.
Communication CARiManS - CARiManS for knowledge
transfer
The following objectives will be accomplished after the successful
implementation of CARiMan:
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CARIMAN –
CARIMAN Communication network should be web based, scalable, platform
independent and easy to use.
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Access from any
EU region,
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Interconnectivity
from any EU region,
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Consistency
throughout the CARIMAN network,
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Provide services
from a CARIMAN peer group prospective so that failures of individual CARIMAN
peers do not affect the service availability.
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Formation of
CARIMAN peer groups also helps scooping the search and discovery context thus
improving performance.
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Clients
accessing the databases are free from the database system being used and data
formats as they send queries and receive responses. This helps in providing a
database mediator layer which is desired by many scientific and commercial
applications.
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Automatic load
balancing as every CARIMAN peer service only responds when it is in position to
service the request.
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Need for minimum
service monitoring, as peers provide a soft state update for availability and
inform monitoring CARIMAN peer if they are overloaded so that new peer services
can be started.
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Provision of
digitally signed mobile code for starting new CARIMAN peer services available in
the group context thus ensuring security.
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Formation of
self organizing CARIMAN peer groups with adaptive and highly available
characteristics.
Effective
use of peer to peer concepts to solve complex data management problem with
quality of service assurances.