A Metamodel and its Ontology to Guide Crisis Characterization and its Collaborative Management

TLDR

The Mediation Information System is designed to support interoperability among partners’ information systems and to coordinate their activities through collaboration. The project seeks to equip crisis‑management partners with an agile Mediation Information System that facilitates interoperability and coordinated action. To achieve this, the authors develop a shared reference model of crisis situations that serves as input for automated reasoning to generate and adapt collaborative crisis‑solving processes. Initial results include a UML metamodel of crisis situations and an OWL ontology that enable deductive reasoning over crisis data.

Abstract

This paper presents a research in progress about the French ISyCri project that aims at providing partners involved in crisis management with an agile Mediation Information System (MIS). Not only this MIS shoul support the interoperability of the partners’ information systems but it is also dedicated to coordinate their activities through a collaborative process. One of the first and main steps towards such a MIS, is to elaborate a common and sharable reference model built to characterize crisis situations. Such a model is also an input for automated reasoning to elaborate and adapt a crisis solving collaborative process. This article presents the objective of the project, our approach and our first results: a UML metamodel of crisis situation and its corresponding OWL ontology on top of which deductions are possible.