Risk information formalisation with graphs

The logistics is an essential economic activity that is intended to manage the physical and data flows (informative, customs and financial), in order to provide the resources corresponding to more or less determined needs in compliance with the specified economic and legal conditions (subject to the quality- of-service targets and the security and safety conditions are satisfactory). The links between formalized information, risk management in production logistics and adaptation to technological and market changes, are essential to industrial companies. In this paper, we have followed a structured approach, keeping within a formal risk management framework, for continually improving production logistics practices and procedures by experience feedback processes. The information derived from the risk assessment in production logistics is formalized by the conceptual graphs, permitting to ease the logical expressions and enhance the semantic quality of visual representation produced. The proposal is illustrated more clearly by a concrete case study of the production logistics adopted for aircraft manufacturing in an European Aeronautic Company

Knowledge-based modelling applied to synucleinopathies

The adoption of telemedicine technologies has enabled collaborative programs involving a variety of links among distributed medical structures and health officials and professionals. The use for telemedicine for transmission of medical data and the possibility for several distant physicians to share their knowledge on given medical cases provides clear benefits, but also raises several unsolved conceptual and technical challenges. The seamless exchange and access of medical information between medical structures, health professionals, and patients is a prerequisite for the harmonious development of this new medical practice. This paper proposes a new approach of semantic interoperability for enabling mutual understanding of terminologies and concepts used. The proposed semantic interoperability approach is based on conceptual graph to support collaborative activities by describing how different health specialists can apply appropriate strategies to eliminate differential medical diagnosis. Intelligent analysis strategies are used to narrow down and pinpoint medical disorders. The model proposed is fully verified by a case study in the context of elderly patients and specifically dealing with synucleinopathies, a group of neurodegenerative diseases that include Parkinson's disease (PD), dementia with Lewy bodies (DLB), pure autonomic failure (PAF) and multiple system atrophy (MSA)

Software services for supporting remote crisis management

Crisis management specifies a series of functions or processes for the identification, analysis and forecasting of crisis issues, and the statement of specific ways that would enable an organization to prevent or cope with a crisis. There are some existing techniques for crisis management. However, to our knowledge none of them is focused on the integration of telemedicine acts especially during transportation phase and also between health structures for saving more lives. Therefore, we propose a novel methodological framework for remote crisis management with three main phases: (1) Crisis definition (2) Crisis Analysis and (3) Crisis Management. The Crisis Management phase is based on the organized collaboration of various acts of telemedicine: Teleconsultation, Teleexpertise, Telemonitoring, Teleassistance, and Medical regulation. Each act of tele- medicine provides services to others and can be represented in Software as a Service (SaaS). SaaS design principle considers a software application as a service from which we propose some collaborative services to solve complex crisis management problems. The case studied and modeled concerns the simulation exercise on the Tsunami crisis management in Cannes (France), especially during the transportation phase of patients to various health structures. The proposed methodology adds an additional layer in terms of remote collaboration and information management to improve the management of emergencies and safety, with a view for contributing to protect and save lives when minimizing damages. The expected benefits (main findings) for using the considered approach are not only to provide crisis managers with a relevant computerized decision support system, but also to minimize financial costs, reduce the response time and positively impact the crisis management

Process Modeling to Federate PSEEs: Basic Concepts and Perspectives

Rapport interne.Many approaches propose to federate the environments defining a priori a certain number of organization protocols between them. Here we propose to federate them by modeling the federation process with a level of abstraction close to that used to model development process. It aims at giving the possibility to agents to define the federation process according to particular objectives which one wants to achieve when several environments are involved in a joint project

Towards Process Components Mobility in Federated PSEEs

Rapport de contrat.Actual process modeling formalisms allow more or less modularity, reusability and interoperability. One can thus easily imagine that process models components become mobile on a network of Process Sensitive Engineering Environments (PSEEs). Our work in this paper relies on a Workflow like process model, enriched with a precise performance model and the notion of rights to capture some facets of the actors' responsibilities in a process. To involve participants of federated process environment in a joint project, by task delegation, these tasks must be modeled in mobile process components form. The notion of process component is introduced as well as component mobility mechanisms and policies in the context of federated PSEEs. When an autonomous PSEE working in autonomy imports a process component, it can re-use the process in its own way. Additional problems arise when the same component must be imported within the collaboration framework involving several PSEEs in a joint federated project. In this case, especially when a task is to be delegated to other sites, collaboration has to be maintained between importer and exporter during the component performance. For that the recipient must have the competence to perform it, and sometimes negotiation is necessary between the exporter and importer. We propose a suitable formalism for mobility policies for process components delegation and building blocks to support these policies

Environnement Centré Procédés pour Supporter la Négociation

Rapport interne.Cet article propose un environnement «centré procédés» qui permet à des agents non nécessairement informaticiens de modéliser les activités de leur entreprise. Pour cela, l'environnement a besoin d'offrir un cadre de modélisation de haut niveau et supporter la négociation entre les agents qui vont y réaliser des tâches. La modélisation de haut niveau permet une description graphiques des procédés. Le protocole de négociation proposé permet à un agent de contacter un autre agent (distant ou non) pour l'aider à réaliser sa tâches. Une étude de cas dans le domaine de la médecine traditionnelle permet d'illustrer nos propos. || This article proposes an «process centered» environment that allows agents who are not necessarily computer scientists to modellize the activities of their enterprise. For this, the environment should offer a high level modellization technique and suppo

Modeling for effective collaboration in telemedicine

International audienceTelemedicine is a remote medical practice, which utilizes advanced telecommunications and information technologies for the delivery of healthcare and the exchange of heath information across distances. The development of telemedicine has significantly changed the medical collaborative decision making and doctor–patient relationships and has an impact on the responsibilities of physicians to patients and how to treat them. Moreover, in the chain of medical care information exchanged between a requesting physician and medical expert should assist in decision making. In this regard, we propose means for the formalization of exchanges, which is very important because it facilitates a transparent and traceable understanding of the remote process. So, we engage knowledge-based modeling for supporting collaborative activities in telemedicine. This includes the engagement of formal ontologies to ensure structuration of terminology and identification across all entities in a domain so that multiple sources of data can be aggregated through comparable reference terms. The provided benefit is the generated support for logic-based intelligent applications that are able to perform complex reasoning tasks such as checking for errors and inconsistencies and deriving logical inferences