WHISPER – service integrated incident management system

ABSTRACT: This paper presents a cohesive summary of existing emergency response systems. We investigate and integrate principles, theories, and practices from four diverse, yet related, fields of knowledge with respect to information representation and decision support capability requirements for emergency planning and response (EPR) systems. This enables the cooperation between constituent agencies (e.g., fire, police and medical) and surrounding municipalities which operate using assorted decision support protocols, system architectures, networking strategies and along different levels of data security needs. Based upon our investigation, we have built a service architectural framework for providing and disseminating an integrated platform of knowledge capable of being used as intelligent interconnects between distributed EPR systems. Such a framework can support affordable integration for municipalities of all sizes, in particular smaller municipalities that often cannot afford costly off-the-shelf software solutions consisting of proprietary logic and requiring extensive customization and support cost. We also present a prototype web service based implementation and summarize the limitations of such an approach. Index: Emergency response system, emergency planning and response, emergency management, decision support, web service

Веб-сервіс підтримки прийняття рішень на основі модифікованого методу морфологічного аналізу

Дипломна робота: 109 с., 19 табл., 26 рис., 2 дод., 19 джерел. Тема: веб-сервіс підтримки прийняття рішень на основі модифікованого методу морфологічного аналізу. Об’єкт дослідження: процес підтримки прийняття рішень з використанням веб-сервісу. Мета роботи: розібратися в теоретичних основах модифікованого методу морфологічного аналізу, розробити веб-сервіс для одночасної роботи над задачею, використовуючи сучасні мови програмування, знайти та проаналізувати вже існуючі веб-сервіси для вирішення задач підтримки прийняття рішень. Предмет дослідження: веб-сервіс з підтримки прийняття рішень за допомогою двоетапного методу модифікованого морфологічного аналізу. У даній роботі було розглянуто та проаналізовано вже існуючі веб- сервіси з підтримки прийняття рішень, методи підтримки прийняття рішень. Для реалізації обрано двоетапний модифікований метод морфологічного аналізу. Результатом даної роботи є програмний продукт у вигляді веб-сервіси з підтримки прийняття рішень, а саме двоетапний модифікований метод морфологічного аналізу на основі операційної системи Linux та мови програмування Elixir.Thesis: 109 p., 19 tables, 26 figures, 2 appendices, 19 sources. The theme: web service for decision support based on a modified morphological analysis method. Research object: decision support process using a web service. The purpose of the work: to understand the theoretical foundations of the modified method of morphological analysis, to develop a web service for simultaneous work on the task using modern programming languages, to find and analyze already existing web services for solving decision support tasks. The subject of the study: a web service for supporting decision-making using the two-stage method of modified morphological analysis. In this work we consider and analyze already existing web services for decision-making support, decision-making support methods. A two-stage modified method of morphological analysis was chosen for implementation. The result of this work is a software product in the form of a decision support web service, namely a two-stage modified method of morphological analysis

'Push' and 'Pull' Modeling In RosettaNet's Business-To -Business e-Commerce Partner Interface Processes.

This paper analyses and compares the performances of Business-to-Business e-Commerce data quality and service quality among the use of the 'Push' model, the ,pult' model and the 'Push and Pull' model. As in other Business to-Business standard and technologies, the RosettaNet's Partner Interface processes attempt to enhance the business document interchange efficiency, which is a critical success factor among the trading partners in the small and medium-sized industries

XML Encoding and Web Services for Spatial OLAP Data Cube Exchange: an SOA Approach

XML and Web Services technologies have revolutionized the way data are exchanged on the Internet. Meanwhile, Spatial OLAP (SOLAP) tools have emerged to bridge the gap between the Business Intelligence and Geographic Information Systems domains. While Web Services specifications such as XML for Analysis enable the use of OLAP tools in Service Oriented Architecture (SOA) environments, no solution addresses the exchange of complete SOLAP data cubes (comprising both spatial and descriptive data and metadata) in an interoperable fashion. This paper proposes a new XML grammar for the exchange of SOLAP data cubes, containing both spatial and descriptive data and metadata. It enables the delivery of the cube schema, dimension members (including the geometry of spatial members) and fact data. The use of this XML format is then demonstrated in the context of a Web Service. Such services can be deployed in various situations, not limited to traditional client-server platforms but also ubiquitous mobile computing environments

'Push' and 'Pull' Modeling for RosettaNet’s PIPs

This paper analyses and compares the performances of Business-to-Business e-Commerce data quality and service quality among the use of the ‘Push’ and ‘Pull’ models. RosettaNet’s original Partner Interface Processes use the ‘Push’ model which suffers from data redundancy when the volume of business-to-business transaction increases. However, when the ‘Pull’ model is used, although it reduces data redundancy, it has a greater chance of not getting the latest updates. It is then argued that if the ‘Push’ and ‘Pull’ models are combined, the resulting model would further enhance the overall trade document interchange performance with improved data quality and greater personalizability, especially among the smaller non-Electronics industries

Ontology-independent and QOS-enabled dynamic composition of web services in business domains

vii, 107 leaves : ill. ; 29 cm.Includes abstract.Includes bibliographical references (leaves 102-107).This thesis proposes a novel and high-performance ontology-independent approach and methods for Quality of Services (QoS)-enabled dynamic web services discovery and composition. One proposed method uses Google distance for calculating semantic similarities instead of using the state-of-the-art ontological-based approaches in the semantic matching stage. A further new method is architected for the QoS operational matching stage of web services discovery. Moreover, the thesis proposes a hybrid approach to dynamic web services composition, called FOIQOS, consisting of using a prescriptive system for web services discovery and composition. Another problem the thesis addresses is the absence of comparisons of existing QoS-enabled composition approaches in the literature. To compare the new methods proposed in the thesis, FOIQOS and three other approaches for QOS-enabled dynamic web services composition were implemented. Experimental results show that the proposed FOIQOS approach significantly outperforms its ontology-based and heuristic-based method counterparts, in terms of both increased accuracy and reduced overhead

WHISPER- Service Integrated Incident Management System

ABSTRACT: This paper presents a cohesive summary of existing emergency response systems. We investigate and integrate principles, theories, and practices from four diverse, yet related, fields of knowledge with respect to information representation and decision support capability requirements for emergency planning and response (EPR) systems. This enables the cooperation between constituent agencies (e.g., fire, police and medical) and surrounding municipalities which operate using assorted decision support protocols, system architectures, networking strategies and along different levels of data security needs. Based upon our investigation, we have built a service architectural framework for providing and disseminating an integrated platform of knowledge capable of being used as intelligent interconnects between distributed EPR systems. Such a framework can support affordable integration for municipalities of all sizes, in particular smaller municipalities that often cannot afford costly off-the-shelf software solutions consisting of proprietary logic and requiring extensive customization and support cost. We also present a prototype web service based implementation and summarize the limitations of such an approach. Index: Emergency response system, emergency planning and response, emergency management, decision support, web service