EIDA Project ( Proposal )
Emergency Intelligent Decision Assistant:
Toolkit for Coordinated Emergency Management
Research and Technical Background
by Claudio Balducelli Sandro Bologna ,
Adam Maria Gadomski
ENEA, July 1995
EIDA - Project (proposal)
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Summary
Project Goals
Project Methodologies and Tools
Project Realization
EIDA Project
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Project Goals :
Development of a domain-oriented toolkit and its
validation for a class of Emergency Management
active Decision Support Systems.
Toolkit :
1) Domain problem conceptualization tools
2) Modeling tools
3) Methodology, methods and techniques
4) Software design tools
5) Software modules
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active Decision Support Systems
Goal-driven decisional support which is based
on:
user role-model
domain model
M-M cooperation model
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Project Methodology and Tools - TOGA
Basic paradigmes:
Top-down
Object-based
Goal-oriented
Approach
Basic conceptual couple:
Intelligent Agent
Environment
interaction
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Top-down and Object-based :
Top-down
Object-based
Structural
decomposition
of concepts
Representation
of concepts
in term of objects
and relations
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Goal-oriented (example):
E-M goal (losses, risk, intervention,..) ,
search
search
Domain( losses generation events, risk objects, ..)
search
Toxic substances
support of
search
risk model
Maps (...)
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Project main phases
1
- User Requirement specification
2
- Modeling
3
- Tools prototyping and verification
4
- Demos (user oriented applications)
validation
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Generic Emergency Management Scenario
1

2
N-th Decompositon level:
...
...
Model 1
Model 2
Sub-Model 1
Model 3 . . . .
....
Model n
integration
Architecture
of an ideal
emergency
manager
Sub-Model m
Sub-Model 2
selection
integration
3
Prototype 1
Prototype 2 . . . Prototype m
Verification
4
Architecture
of EIDA
kernel
modification
User oriented demos
modification
Validation
Formalization of the Applicative
Domain
Wp1
Summary
- Domain of EM Activity
- EM Activities and Tasks
- EM operators organizational structure
Formalization of the Applicative
Domain
Wp1
Methods and Tools
- Domain of EM Activity
-> Reusing Muster Model
- EM Activities and Tasks
-> Use Task Analysis
- Agents organizational structure -> ISEM Model
Muster and ISEM are EU projects.
Definition of Models and System
Requirements Wp2
Summary
- Definition of a Common Terminology
- Single Agent Model
- Decisional Model Based on Agents Cooperation
Definition of Models and System
Requirements Wp2
Methods and Tools
Physical Domain
of Activity
Single Agent Model ( TOGA Th.):
AD
P
Abstract - Domain;
a representation
of Physical Domain
of Activity
Agent Preference
System
Data acquisition
Actions
AD
New
Information
Decisions
Goals
K
Agent Knowledge
System
P
K
Definition of Models and System Requirements
Wp2
Methods and Tools -> GEMS top-activities loop
Domain models Emergency org. models What-if simul. Role-preferences
Detecting/
monitoring
Information
acquisition:
with/without
request
Comunication
Agent
Diagnostics
Cause
searching
Diagnostic
Agent
Previsions
DecisionMaking
Consequence
searching
Action / task
choice
Evaluator
Agent
Action Selector
Agent
Definition of Models and System
Requirements Wp2
Methods and Tools
Diagnostic agent structure:
Domain representation -> focused on the Causal Trees of the
Emergency Events and Risk Objects
Preference System
-> the agent goal is to send to the evaluator
agent more and more precise informations
about event causes and event
characterization
Knowledge System
-> has the task to execute Cause Searching
Process. It could be based on
Case Based Reasoning approach
Definition of Models and System
Requirements Wp2
Methods and Tools
Evaluator agent structure:
Domain representation -> focused on Causal Trees of the Emergency
Events and Risk Objects
Preference System
-> the agent goal is to refine evaluations
performing a Consequence Searching
Process
Knowledge System
-> is supported by Numerical Simulators
and/or executes a qualitative Case Based
Reasoning
Definition of Models and System
Requirements Wp2
Emergency propagation map
Domain
model
primary event
cause searching
model
registrated event
consequence
searching
model
Domain - risk
model
A.M.Gadomski, 1995
Definition of Models and System
Requirements Wp2
Methods and Tools
Action selector agent structure:
Domain representation -> focused on organizational emergency
structure, management resources and
physical layout;
Preference System
-> the agent goal is to choice the best
recovery actions and procedures on
the basis of evaluation results;
Knowledge System
-> is composed by an action selector
and an action executor. The action
selector could be supported by a
a Rule Based processing.
Specification of EIDA ToolKit Kernel
Wp3
Methods and Tools
- Choose of adeguate final software environment.
- Software functional Specification and Testing
(for the different agents) using a Case Tool
- Design a Protocol for Data exchange between
the agents
- Design the Users Interface architecture
Implementation and Validation of
EIDA ToolKit Kernel
Wp4 -Wp5
Methods and Tools
- Incremental implementation of the EIDA software
Agents
- Verification and Validation of the produced Kernel
modules respect at least two different Users
oriented prototypes.
- Generalization of the produced ToolKit to support
its utilization in other application of the same class
EIDA proposal
Toolkit for Coordinated Emergency Management
Set of decision-support tools (agents)
Coordinator
Intelligent interface (agent)
EIDA System
Emergency
manager