Periodic Report Summary 2 - EMILI (Emergency Management in Large Infrastructures)
Project Context and Objectives:
Emergency Management (EM) in Critical Infrastructures (CI) is a challenging task with many facets. In EMILI, we identified those aspects of emergency management where users need special support and where new information technologies can provide this support. In a comprehensive requirements analysis during the first year of the EMILI project, we identified these issues. EMILI’s approach concentrates on those aspects of emergency management where immediate operator support is most urgent and where significantly improved support can be provided with new information technologies: immediate reactions to exceptional and emergency situations in a first response phase . We focus on the following situations:
• for airports and metro systems we consider various fire scenarios; and
• for power grids we consider various component failures in the networks, the consequences this may have for the network as a whole, and the alarms they generate.
Such scenarios are of central importance for each of our 3 use cases.
The key idea of EMILI for emergency management in Critical Infrastructures is based on two pillars and their tight relationships:
• situation assessment and
• reactions to these situations.
Project Results:
Semantic technologies in our Superior Operational Management Layer SOMAL have been further elaborated in the second year as information backbone for the large amount of heterogeneous information to be processed. A complex action algebra was introduced allowing us to describe precisely the meaning of reactions. A model theoretic semantics was specified for SOMAL also providing requirements for WP4. A modelling and processing environment SMART has been designed and implemented by the EMILI partner Fraunhofer. It allows us to combine complex SOMAL models with event processing and simulations.
Complex event processing in Dura – LMU’s event and action language – aims at an analysis of large amounts of dynamically incoming heterogeneous event data streams in conjunction with different kinds of static data and to identify complex patterns in them. A first rudimentary version of the Dura engine has been implemented by August 2011. It is planned to have a fully operational event action engine available in Spring 2012. Events and states should be used for situation assessments. It is intended that reactions can be modelled and executed as simple or complex actions. These actions can be related to situations in Dura rules.
Dynamic database technologies in CWI’s Datacell on MonetDB are used.
The Simulation and Training Environment SITE has been designed as reference architecture for our three use cases. Each of them uses its own implementation of SITE. Various simulations can be integrated and used to model physical and technical behaviours as part of emergency management.
Our three use cases – the airport, the metro, and the power grid use case – were further analysed and modelled with SOMAL and to some extend with Dura rules.
Potential Impact:
The main focus of EMILI’s activities in the last year will be on use cases and dissemination.
• The SITE architecture will be implemented in three separate software systems each using the concrete software tools needed in their applications.
• It is planned that LMU’s event action engine will be available during Spring 2012 and will be integrated with SOMAL and MonetDB’s Datacell.
• The use cases need different kinds of simulations. The smoke/fire simulator implemented by Fraunhofer in collaboration with ASIT will be integrated with SMART.
• The use case models will further be elaborated with the aim to demonstrate the usefulness of EMILI for our three kinds of Critical Infrastructures: metro, airport, and power grids.
List of Websites:
https://arquivo.pt/wayback/20170603170325/http://www.emili-project.eu/
Emergency Management (EM) in Critical Infrastructures (CI) is a challenging task with many facets. In EMILI, we identified those aspects of emergency management where users need special support and where new information technologies can provide this support. In a comprehensive requirements analysis during the first year of the EMILI project, we identified these issues. EMILI’s approach concentrates on those aspects of emergency management where immediate operator support is most urgent and where significantly improved support can be provided with new information technologies: immediate reactions to exceptional and emergency situations in a first response phase . We focus on the following situations:
• for airports and metro systems we consider various fire scenarios; and
• for power grids we consider various component failures in the networks, the consequences this may have for the network as a whole, and the alarms they generate.
Such scenarios are of central importance for each of our 3 use cases.
The key idea of EMILI for emergency management in Critical Infrastructures is based on two pillars and their tight relationships:
• situation assessment and
• reactions to these situations.
Project Results:
Semantic technologies in our Superior Operational Management Layer SOMAL have been further elaborated in the second year as information backbone for the large amount of heterogeneous information to be processed. A complex action algebra was introduced allowing us to describe precisely the meaning of reactions. A model theoretic semantics was specified for SOMAL also providing requirements for WP4. A modelling and processing environment SMART has been designed and implemented by the EMILI partner Fraunhofer. It allows us to combine complex SOMAL models with event processing and simulations.
Complex event processing in Dura – LMU’s event and action language – aims at an analysis of large amounts of dynamically incoming heterogeneous event data streams in conjunction with different kinds of static data and to identify complex patterns in them. A first rudimentary version of the Dura engine has been implemented by August 2011. It is planned to have a fully operational event action engine available in Spring 2012. Events and states should be used for situation assessments. It is intended that reactions can be modelled and executed as simple or complex actions. These actions can be related to situations in Dura rules.
Dynamic database technologies in CWI’s Datacell on MonetDB are used.
The Simulation and Training Environment SITE has been designed as reference architecture for our three use cases. Each of them uses its own implementation of SITE. Various simulations can be integrated and used to model physical and technical behaviours as part of emergency management.
Our three use cases – the airport, the metro, and the power grid use case – were further analysed and modelled with SOMAL and to some extend with Dura rules.
Potential Impact:
The main focus of EMILI’s activities in the last year will be on use cases and dissemination.
• The SITE architecture will be implemented in three separate software systems each using the concrete software tools needed in their applications.
• It is planned that LMU’s event action engine will be available during Spring 2012 and will be integrated with SOMAL and MonetDB’s Datacell.
• The use cases need different kinds of simulations. The smoke/fire simulator implemented by Fraunhofer in collaboration with ASIT will be integrated with SMART.
• The use case models will further be elaborated with the aim to demonstrate the usefulness of EMILI for our three kinds of Critical Infrastructures: metro, airport, and power grids.
List of Websites:
https://arquivo.pt/wayback/20170603170325/http://www.emili-project.eu/
