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Department of Computer Science

Intelligent Information Systems Lab

Intelligent Information Systems for Emergency

Management

Dr Milorad Tosic

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Emergency Management

Stakeholders Individuals

Enterprises

Whole society

Future generations

Nature of the system factors Extremely low probability

Extremely high impact

Extremely complex systems (people, services, equipment, management, technology, etc.) that must be ready in a very long period of time (ideally indefinitely) just to be used for a very short period of time (during the emergent situation).

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Intelligent Information Systems (IIS) Core concepts [TOSMIL,TOS,CH]

(Context sensitive) Semantics

Active distributed knowledge

Complex adaptive systems

Interactive communities of agents (human as well as software)

IIS value-add

PEOPLE PEOPLE PEOPLE make the system intelligent, effective and successful!!!

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Quality of interaction on the Web?

How many of you have ever used the Web? (ALL – easy, available, valuable, pervasive)

How many of you want to contribute to Web site building? (CONFLICT – contribute ALL – tedious building FIEW)

How many of you personally maintain or hire a service to maintain your Web site? (FIEW or DON’T KNOW – tedious work requiring technical

knowledge)

How many of you have had a problem updating your site? (FIEW – due to expensive SA support, UPDATES ARE REAR

AND RISKY)

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Quality of interaction on the Web?

How many of you have the need for collaborative mechanisms and group support? (ALL have the need but FIEW recognize the need)

How many of you have the need to accumulate personal knowledge built over a general topic? (ALL have the need but FIEW have first-hand experience)

What about distributed, shared, and community knowledge? (Value for ALL but critical mass threshold is high)

How many of you would like to have easy access to national heritage knowledge and interact with it? (ALL – but REQUIRES Next Generation National Heritage

Infrastructure)

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Our answer: Collaborative Semantic Web Portal Prototype Collaborative workspace that brings

together

People

Relevant information,

Knowledge,

Interaction,

Innovative methodologies, and

Supporting Tools

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Our answer: Collaborative Semantic Web Portal Prototype Prototype:

Inter- as well as intra-community collaboration,

Workflow and Process management,

Interaction,

Knowledge sharing and dissemination,

Heterogeneous information integration,

Awareness building.

Mechanisms: System login and working groups,

Interaction over content,

Interaction over structure,

Interaction over presentation semantics,

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System login and working groups

Permissions for users and working groups:

VIEW page contentEDIT page contentPRINT page contentCREATE new pageATTACHMENTS per page

Not in Work Group?

You don’t have privileges to VIEW and EDIT this page content

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Menu creating and editing

Page and content creating and editing

Page attachments as documents and pictures

Different ways of the content printing

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Interaction over content: Collaborative page editing

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Interaction over content: Content printing

Pretty printing Pure text printing PDF printing MS Word printing

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Interaction over structure: Automatic Links

Automatic links for page neighborhood (links pointing to the page and links pointing from the page)

Useful for drop-down menus within main menu as well as page-specific menus reflecting current context

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Interaction over presentation semantics

Importing inter and intra web pages or their some part into page content

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Interaction over presentation semantics

Personalization and configuration of several existing applications

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Our experience so far

Education Student-teacher communication is improved Students are more active on the projects Management of the course is more natural Students like this approach

Agile project management Interactive distributed meeting minutes administration Project knowledge accumulation Project members have location-independent access to

shared project’s documentation over the Web Automatic e-mail notification about changes

in the shared workspace

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Self organizing complex system for “storage – for forever” and semantic collaboration

Future work: P2P Semantic Web for robust distributed storage

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Conclusion

Intelligent information systems Collaboration and easy access to information Personal knowledge accumulation Distributed, shared, and community knowledge Interaction over multiple dimensions:

Content Structure Presentation semantics

Heterogeneous application integration Robust distributed storage for knowledge

archiving

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References[TOS] Milorad Tosic, “Meta-Architecture for Intelligent Information Systems”, Workshop on

Designing for Reflective Practitioners: Sharing and Assessing Progress by Diverse Communities, CHI2004.

[TOSMIL] M. Tosic, V. Milicevic, "Social Networking in the University Education Process", Workshop on Tools for CS Education, Fourth International Conference for Informatics and Information Technology, CIIT 2003.

[HZ] Hai Zhuge, “Semantic Grid: Scientific Issues, Infrastructure, and Methodology”, Communications of ACM, April 2005., Vol.48, No. 4, pp. 117-119

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Department of Computer Science

Intelligent Information Systems Lab

Intelligent Information Systems for Emergency

Management

Questions?http://infosys1.elfak.ni.ac.yu