Title: Information Management for Emergency Decision Support (IMEDS)
Speaker: Nabil Adam, Rutgers University
Date: Monday, November 12, 2007 12:00 - 1:30 pm
Location: DyDan Center, CoRE Bldg, Room 431, Rutgers University, Busch Campus, Piscataway, NJ
Abstract:
Effective incident management and response requires timely and coordinated decision making. This involves shared situational awareness and common operating picture among various federal, state, and local agencies. Shared situational awareness requires collection, fusion, and analysis of multi-modal data that comes from diverse sources with varying security policies and following different protocols. For achieving common operating picture, the following research issues need to be addressed: i) interoperability among agencies at the policy, system, and process levels; ii) identification and validation of default actions for each emergency situation.
In this context, we discuss the ongoing research work at CIMIC that focuses on the following themes: 1) secure information sharing and integration, 2) data analysis, 3) semantic web services. In the first theme, we consider research issues related to secure information sharing among disparate organizations without having to relax, reveal or change any of the existing security infrastructure or policies. In the second theme, we address issues related to deriving actionable knowledge from data coming from various sources with multiple modalities. Additionally, we investigate approaches to facilitate secure collaborative data analysis, in the case where organizations are not willing to share any data. The third theme focuses on achieving operational-level interoperation among various agencies with heterogeneous systems and platform-dependent applications. In addition to addressing the above research challenges, a proof of concept in form of a prototype is being developed.
The related research and development work at CIMIC is supported by National Science Foundation and industrial partners. We seek research collaborators as well as collaborators from government and private sectors for user requirements identification/refinement, prototype validation, and field testing.