Ontology based Comprehensive Architecture for Service Discovery in Emergency Cloud

Abstract — Disasters such as Tsunami, Landslides, and cyclones occur frequently and a strong emergency management system is required to manage such situations. These kinds of crisis circumstances are expected to increase in future. The role of Information and communication technology can largely aid in handling calamities and provide first aid support. The characteristics of Cloud computing such as sharing on demand, connecting communities and offering everything as a service clearly indicate that it can contribute to crisis without affecting business continuity. Hence efforts have taken to articulate web services and the cloud infrastructure as ontology, in the perspective of emergency management which can improve the understanding of this proposed agent based comprehensive architecture