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A Framework for the Search And Rescue Domain
Abraham Rodríguez-Rodríguez & Miguel Alemán-Flores
Department of Computer Science
University of Las Palmas de Gran Canaria
Canary Islands – Spain
{arodriguez,maleman}@dis.ulpgc.es
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Contents
SAR domain RCC operative Architecture & application Knowledge assets Knowledge management benefits Conclusions
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SAR Main role: Search And Rescue Organization:
Air Squadron Rescue Coordination Centre
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RCC operative RCC comprises all the experience and heuristics
needed in facing emergencies what, how and when
Staff: coordinator and operators
Aircraft selection
Calculate probability
zone
Select and Configure resources
Configure search
procedure ...
Routes Generation
Task Controler
Check Solution
No more solutions
Error information
Solution Mission data
PRIMITIVE TASKS
OPERATION CONTROL
Solution Plan
Mission data
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Software architecture
Aircraft selection
Calculate probability
zone
Select and Configure resources
Configure search
procedure ...
Routes Generation
Task Controler
Check Solution
No more solutions
Error information
Solution Mission data
PRIMITIVE TASKS
OPERATION CONTROL
Solution Plan
Mission data
Squadron resource manager
GIS
Chronologies manager
Agenda manager
Operations Procedures
Manager
USER SUPER-USER
database
INFORMATION PROCESSING
INFORMATION MANAGEMENT
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GUI snapshot
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Information Management
Includes Manager for the operative procedures Resource manager Entities and contacts agenda Chronology reports utility Geographical Information System
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GUI- reports utility
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GUI- GIS
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Knowledge Assets
The tool captures a significant part of the organization knowledge. RCC work-flow Operation procedures Knowledge-bases modules
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Management benefits
Relation with knowledge management activities (Wiig, 1997) Knowledge creation
• knowledge engineering process Knowledge compilation
• Combining heterogeneous knowledge sources to produce the operational procedures docs.
• Ontology of the SAR domain Knowledge dissemination
• Knowledge availability to any user Knowledge application
• The real use of the application
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Conclusions Project goal from a KM perspective
Make the organization act as intelligently as possible to secure its overall success (Tiwana, 2000)
We have developed a flexible and integrated environment that captures the organization work flow
The most valuable product is not the software itself, but the documents with the specification of the operational procedures
Limitations The definition of new types of missions are limited by the (fixed)
set of primitive tasks. There are missions were assets from multiple organizations
participate. New primitive tasks must be defined in order to track coordination actions among them.
The current version does not support multiple missions with shared assets.