Cybernetic Incident Management

Project code: CIM III
Research group: Component-based models and software architectures (SEN3.1)

Start: 2003-01-01
End: 2006-12-31

Project coordinator: Farhad Arbab

Incidents occur because we cannot predict nature (and humans as a part of it) in its entirety. When an incident occurs, effective incident management and handling of its consequences can prevent it from evolving into a disaster. Incident management involves various organizations, which must coordinate their various activities among themselves.

The CIM project aims at generating sufficient knowledge that would allow the industrial partners of the project to build within 4-5 years from the start of the project, the first generation of an intelligent and adaptive agent-based ICT-infrastructure for incident management. The agent technology used should also allow simulation of the dynamic and often non-hierarchical nature of disaster management by the various involved organizations. The resulting ICT-infrastructure would allow different groups of professionals from the industry and the government to communicate among themselves and access in an efficient and robust manner, situational and operational information to enhance their decision making processes during incident management.

The research themes Coordination Languages (SEN3) and Computational Intelligence and Multi-agent Games (SEN4) contribute to the CIM project on behalf of CWI. The contribution of SEN3 consists of relevant (to the CIM project) applications of the group's knowledge and experience in the area of models and techniques for component-based software engineering and coordination of component interactions based on the notion of mobile channels. The contribution of SEN4 comprises of the results of the group's experience and knowledge in the fields of evolutionary systems, neural networks, and discrete algorithms, and their applications in e-commerce, multi-agent systems, and modeling of processes in the economy.

The CIM consortium comprises of both industrial and academic partners. Almende B.V., Group 4 Falck, and CMotions B.V., constitute the industrial partners in CIM. The Dutch National Research Institute for Mathematics and Computer Science (CWI), Technical University Delft, and Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam, constitute the academic partners in CIM.

Members
Farhad Arbab, Nikolay Diakov, Kees Everaars, Tomas Klos, Han La Poutré, Jan Rutten.