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Dr.
Ulrich Bieker
PRO DV Software AG
Hauert 6
44227 Dortmund
Phone:
+49-231-9792-326
FAX:
+49-231-9792-200
http://www.prodv.de
Ulrich.Bieker@prodv.de
Description
of the organisation PRO DV Software AG
PRO
DV is a leading software and consulting company for process-oriented business
applications and Geo Solutions. Our main customers come from industries and
telecommunications as well as from government. Our solutions provide our
customers with more efficient working processes, reduced operating cost and a
higher quality of service for their customers at the same time - in other words:
the key factors that are decisive in remaining competitive in today's world.
PRO
DV was founded in 1979. Today we employ about 200 employees at different sites
(Dortmund, Dresden, Cologne and Nuernberg) in our business segments
"Business Process Optimisation", "Spatial Resource
Management" and "Internet-based Customer Services". Our quality
management system is certified for compliance with DIN EN ISO 9001:2000.
PRO
DV has performed the conception and realization of the German Precautionary
Emergency Information System II. The customer is the Federal Republic of
Germany. The objective of the project and the software is: In the event of a
large-scale hazardous situation, it is of particular importance that the
information which is decisive for this contingency can be conveyed quickly and
the individual coordination centres made available. Only then is the precise
execution of aid measures possible and for this reason, a geo information system
had to be developed which contains large quantities of
·
map material,
·
various
technical data,
·
dynamic
measured values etc.
which
can be provided to the centres efficiently and conveniently online.
PRO
DV has a lot of experiences with EU founded projects. One example: In order to
improve the Requirements Engineering process, PRO DV was a member as SME in the
EU founded project REDEST (www.redest.net).
PRO
DV Software AG is a member of 1. BITKOM
Bundesverband Informationswirtschaft, Telekommunikation und neue Medien e.V.,
2. NIK (Nürnberger Initiative für die Kommunikationswirtschaft), 3. membership
in D21 initiative, and 4. Call Center Forum Deutschland e.V. .
Contribution
to the project CARiMan / exploitation route:
As mentioned above, PRO DV implemented the
German Precautionary Emergency Information System.
We aim at a significant improvement of the technology in order to improve risk
management, traceability and demands of governments / administrative
authorities. This research and innovation will contribute to risk management
(e.g. flood or fire emergencies) and will increase
PRO DV competitiveness in the market.
CV
of Dr. rer. nat. Dipl. Inform. Ulrich Bieker:
38 years old, working since 1996 in the department of environment and forestry
at PRO DV Software AG. He is the project manager of the project FOKUS, which
incorporates more than 50 years of development effort. His main scope of
activities are the fields of software development, development process
improvement (at PRO DV), software testing, business process optimisation and
project management. Already acting as project manager of an ESSI Process
Improvement Experiment at PRO DV (i.e. ITEM, project on test process
improvement) and as project
manager of the EU funded project REDEST concerned with Requirements
Engineering. Until
1995 researcher at the department of computer engineering, University of
Dortmund, written his Ph. D. in computer science, thesis on self-test programs
for VLSI processors. Author and co-author of around 10 papers on software
testing topics.
Publications
(Partial List)
2/1996
U. Bieker, A. Neumann. Using
Logic Programming and Coroutining for Electronic CAD. The Journal of Logic
Programming.
12/1995
U. Bieker. Retargierbare Compilierung von Selbsttestprogrammen digitaler
Prozessoren mittels Constraint-logischer Programmierung. Dissertation, Shaker
Verlag, Aachen, ISBN 3-8625-10925.
6/1995
U. Bieker, P. Marwedel. Retargetable Self-Test
Program Generation Using Constraint Logic Programming. 32nd Design
Automation Conference, San Francisco.
deNIS
II
Objective
In
the event of a large-scale hazardous situation, it is of particular importance
that the information which is decisive for this contingency can be conveyed
quickly and the individual coordination centres made available. Only then is the
precise execution of aid measures possible and for this reason, a geo
information system had to be developed which contains large quantities of
·
map material,
·
various
technical data,
·
dynamic
measured values etc.
which
can be provided to the centres efficiently and conveniently online.
Project Result
As
a result, an overall system was created which can be split up into four parts:
o
A so-called web
client was implemented as a client. This is based on a Java control applet which
is started in an internet browser and offers the user the various information
sources, map material etc. for selection in the simplest possible manner. In
this way, resources (hospitals, ...), potential risk sources (atomic power
stations, ...), measured values and the like can be superimposed onto the
updated map inset. The key component of the display is a contingency layer for
visualizing the current hazardous situation, such as a chemical cloud, which is
prepared ad hoc by the coordination centre and displayed automatically be the
web clients. In addition to this, the other features include an internal
communication function for the secure transmission of messages within the
system, and an Info Manager for accessing all databases.
o
The server was
set up as a Java Servlet and it combines the entire business logic within
itself.
o
The data is
processed and made available within the system by means of specially developed
Java applications.
The
essential basic components of the system are the PRO DV PROconn System on the
one hand, which consists of an applet and servlet as the basis of the
above-mentioned components, as well as the ERSI components ArcIMS, ArcSDE and
ArcGIS, and the Oracle RDBMS.
Performance of Tasks
In
close coordination with the customer, three concepts were realized in the first
project phase.
Realization
took place at the PRO DV Software AG location in Dortmund. The following
technologies were used:
·
Server
operating system:
SUN Solaris 5.8, Windows 2000
·
Client
operating system:
Windows 2000
·
Client
software:
Internet Explorer
·
Web server:
Apache 1.2.6, tomcat 3.2.4
·
Database:
Oracle 9.2
·
GIS Software:
ArcIMS 4.01, ArcSDE 8.2, ArcGIS 8.2
·
GIS Framework:
PRO DV PROconn
·
Programming
languages:
Java, JavaServerPages, HTML
·
Tools:
Oracle JDeveloper 3.2
The
installation of the ESRI software and deNIS II components onto the customer’s
laptops, PCs and SUN E10000 system was done by PRO DV Software AG.
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