Authors:
Rani Pinchuk
1
;
Sorin Ilie
2
;
Thomas Neidhart
1
;
Tiphaine Dalmas
3
;
Costin Bădică
2
and
Gregor Pavlin
4
Affiliations:
1
Space Applications Services, Belgium
;
2
University of Craiova, Romania
;
3
Aethys, United Kingdom
;
4
Thales Nederland B.V., Netherlands
Keyword(s):
Software agents, Topic Maps, Ontology, Logging, After action analysis, Crisis management, Decision Support, Graphical querying.
Related
Ontology
Subjects/Areas/Topics:
Agents
;
Applications and Case-studies
;
Artificial Intelligence
;
Artificial Intelligence and Decision Support Systems
;
Collaboration and e-Services
;
Context
;
Data Engineering
;
Decision Support Systems
;
Distributed and Mobile Software Systems
;
e-Business
;
Enterprise Information Systems
;
Information Integration
;
Information Systems Analysis and Specification
;
Integration/Interoperability
;
Knowledge Engineering and Ontology Development
;
Knowledge Representation
;
Knowledge-Based Systems
;
Multi-Agent Systems
;
Ontologies and the Semantic Web
;
Ontology Engineering
;
Paradigm Trends
;
Software Engineering
;
Symbolic Systems
Abstract:
A distributed multi-agent system is used to support collaborative situation assessment and decision making for effective management of chemical hazards crisis in industrial areas. The system of agents supports creation of complex information flows between large numbers of stakeholders. The disseminated information and the system states are logged, which supports the analysis of the collaborative crisis management processes as well as the performance of the multi-agent systems framework. An ontology is designed to model the logged process. The fragments of logs that are meaningful to the users are converted to topic maps using the designed ontology. These topic maps are then merged to provide a federated picture of the data. A graphical query mechanism for querying the topic maps has been developed. This query mechanism creates graphical representations of relevant excerpts of the merged topic map, allowing conducting a thorough analysis of the logs.