Application Modelling &&&& Simulation of Data Flow in Disaster Events
Management
JIRI F. URBANEK
Department of Civil Protection
University of Defence
Kounicova 65, 612 00 Brno
CZECH REPUBLIC
[email protected] http://www.unob.cz
Abstract: CAMouflage means last baseline of Czech University of Defence R&D´s project acronym [5]: “Computer
Aided Mobile Roaming university made NET for last stage mile”. At the ground of former baseline named
“CYBERSYS prototype”, which was alpha and beta intensive operational tested already, the useCaseCAMouflage
represents project’s third milestone - initial operational capability. Innovation & iteration processes of projects life
cycles were enforced by conditions change of situation awareness and actors requirements. Further function’s
enriching of the CAMouflage system is necessary for a making of dynamic modelling & simulating & scenarios
creation ability via the method UML,(UP)/DYVELOP by means of its dynamic blazons development. It is enabling to
serve for relevant entities and domains behaviour of disaster events driven human activities of crisis/emergency
management practitioners in various environments. This is a presumption of four project’s milestone fruition -
product release. Here useCaseBlazons are superior to display & simulate of dynamic events in live PowerPoint
presentation, which will be dramatized in Santander finally.
Key words: Crisis/emergency management; WiFi / WiMAX; UAS; CYBERSYS; NEC; interoper-mobility; roaming.
1 Introduction All below original (;) entities are own cybernetic
systems & technologies & know-how - author’s team
real products of R&D (Research project &
Development) work at non-profit Czech University of
Defence. Here R&D processes are drawn and made with
the life cycle objectives of exploring, reflecting and
sharing globally impacted cybernetic ideas, technologies
and systems. Here creative applied COTS (Commercial
of the Shelf) principle [W. Perry, 1995] is an evidence
of that. The impacts on globalization phenomenon –
global threats of the violence and catastrophes - is
visualized via special blazon, which shows model
driven architecture of own useCases (See Fig. 1). It was
created with computer assistance by mix UML (Unified
Modelling Language) [1] / DYVELOP[4] (Dynamic
Vector Logistics of Processes) methodology [5]. Arisen
real "NETou®" is WiMAX / WiFi wireless network
working in high-speed data transmission mode via
computer configurable radio. Explicit this net serves for
an automation of decision making in “The Interoperable
Outdo or Videoconference System, Especially for Crisis
Management of Civil Protection®”. This System is able
to operate even in temporary total destruction of local,
communication and information infrastructure in hard
disaster’s terrain. Likewise, it is able to operate as
mobile, autonomous local cybernetic infrastructure in
emergency situations and areas. Terminal input operates
in data mining and interpretation mode. Transit
functions are fully aided by computers with artificial
intelligence (expert system “esTou®” resp.). Original
Unmanned Aerial Systems (UAS) "avaxTou®” and
“SATELKITE” provide monitoring and
telecommunication technologies and they as mobile IP
net nodal points – microwave “hot-spots”. They
provide, together with other implemented components
and technologies, very effective, highly interoperable
and potent NEC (Network Enabled Capability) for
qualified decision making. It all is required by end users
- crisis/emergency/disaster management practitioners
(decision makers of first responders of “last mile”) for
automated computer aided outdoor operations of Czech
Integrated Rescue System. Everything is continually
improved, iterated and alpha & beta tested already at
eight successful training, educational and/or exhibit
international missions in the last three years. Last result
is our new baseline – the CAMouflage..
2 Dynamic Modelling &&&& Simulation The analysis, creation, design, construction, integration
and life cycle testing need easy and quick modelling,
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simulating and testing apparatus with Computer-
assistance Model (CaM) using model developing
language UML,(UP)/DYVELOP©, which was explained
in Santander’s previous paper [5].
The problem is dynamic informatics’ processes show
and data mining, processing, interpreting, management
and control explain blazonry for practising end-users.
After architecture production control is necessary to
keep their attention and collaboration ability for
executable software design of security threats scenarios
in crisis/emergency/disaster management environment.
For this reason is necessary to compose and draw
blazonry project’s modelling & simulation processes
and domains tending to final “interoper-mobile
applications”, including of data flow in disaster events
management. The apparatus and way for it is expressed
at Fig. 1, in mathematic space – time parameterized
dynamic blazon. Its dynamics is better to explain in live
⟨⟨PowerPoint⟩⟩ presentation in Santander. Here the
Catastrophe is modeled as significant disaster event in
its processes, information, domains and their entities
relations & logistics flows.
3 CAMouflageflageflageflage Baseline - Application Project team of pedagogues and students of Czech
University of Defence contributes to tangible and
demonstrable improvements of situation awareness of
crisis/emergency/disaster management agents for better
effectiveness, economy and security of crisis operations.
They are aimed for security and protection optimising of
information NEC systems and technologies. They are
successful in interoperability and mobility increasing of
crisis management executors in military, security,
police, fire-brigade, rescue and civil humanitarian
organizations. The effort aims on behalf of high
operability & efficiency, quality improvement,
steadiness consolidation and system & process integrity
of the security of civil protection in the context of
economic and environmental sustainable development
given at COTS principle. This principle buildings an
effective partnerships among R&D capacities, among
industrial IT / IS providers - SMEs and among product
end users at the PPP principle (Public Private
Partnerships).
Project team is mission oriented and it has close
relevance to the Programmes of the EC 7th FP. Project
products are well contributed for Value Added in Czech
and European economy and for the reinforcement of
their competitiveness. Project solution of
interoperability requirements problems by means of real
CAMouflage baseline operation is documented at next
Fig. 2. Its beta testing is made at own WiMAX / (WiFi)
wireless network NETou® and other components of our
former CYBERSYS. It works in high-speed data
transmission mode as “The Interoperable Outdoor
Videoconference System, Especially for Crisis
Management of Civil Protection®”. It is able to operate
even in temporary total destruction of lokal
infrastructure, because it is independent at fuel, power,
electricity, telecommunication (mobile operators and
satellites including) and information resources, for one
week. It can operate in own autonomous local
cybernetic infrastructure, which can be shared for
contractors of Czech Integrated Rescue System.
Original Unmanned Aerial System (UAS)
SATELKITE is aerial carriers for monitoring
(cameras, sensors) and telecommunication (WiMAX
antennas/ hub/ router = mobile “hotspots” &
"avaxTou®") technologies, which operate as mobile IP
(Internet Protocol) net’s nodal points. It provides,
together with other implemented components and with
esTou® technology very effective, interoperable, potent
and autonomous NEC´s tasking in highly safe & robust
local intranet with EMOFF SW provided by T-SOFT
Praha. It needs next intensive development to a reaching
its expert system full-blooded technologic abilities. It
needs project development via the UML, (UP)
/DYVELOP©
using to commercial product release
realization at open modular architecture of the
CAMouflage.
Real "NETou®", arisen within previous project’s
baseline CYBERSYS, is WiMAX / (Wi-Fi) wireless
network working in high-speed data duplex-
transmission mode, which shrouding territory is ever 25
square kilometres. Explicit this net serves for data
transmission in “The Interoperable Outdoor
Videoconference System, Especially for Crisis
Management of Civil Protection®”. This System is able
to operate even in temporary total destruction of
regional communication, cybernetic, information and
fuel-providing infrastructure in hard terrain of disaster
situations. Interpretable data can be transmitted explicit
by means of special interface via interoper-mobile
roaming “SMARTerminal”. Everything terminal and
transit functions are fully aided by computers with
artificial intelligence partial quality (expert system
“esTou®” with EMOFF SW resp.). Everything is
continually improved, iterated and tested. Necessary
implementing entities and their operation life cycle
dynamic interactions and relations follow from time-
space parameterized blazon in the Fig.1.
At the Fig. 2, the CAMouflage application full
operational deployment shows multifunctional UAS
“SATELKITE” operated by means “avaxTou® +
WiMAX” technology. The UAS is for electricity
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consumption cabled with off-road vehicle, which has
“esTou® + EMOFF” technology on board. Near
crisis/emergency/disaster management tent is erected an
“INFLATour”. It is a pylon for beacon function, for
disaster area illumination and for “hot – spot”
appropriate take up.
4 Results, Conclusions and Discussion CAMouflage end-user environment consists generally
from internationally operating professional defence /
security / crisis / emergency managements, which are
needful for continuous & competent preparation and
effective response of extraordinary events without
national restrictions not only at the European territory.
[3] This management must be able of effective
concurrence, cooperation, collaboration, interaction,
operability and interoperability in depressed or disaster
areas of trans-national extent and even without
predefined threat scenarios. Modern crisis is hard to
predict and plan. All unexpected is possible. This
intuition brings an improving of situation awareness
here, because technological preparedness may be not
sufficient for all possible situations. But, international,
crisis / emergency response management preparedness
possible is, namely in information exchange and sharing
of future pan-European E-governmental services. They
was the reasons for CAMouflage layout with the vision
of future united cybernetic systems & technologies of
European defence & security & crisis & emergency
managements. Situation awareness improvement of crisis
management is necessary for better operability [2] of its
security, defence, emergency and rescue services and
functions. The operability of crisis / emergency /
disaster management is depressed by unsatisfactory
interoperability at both the national and the international
levels. The interoperability [3] of crisis / emergency /
security / defence operations is a critical capability. But,
successfully solved interoperability brings synergic
effects in cooperation and collaboration of operational
entities. Operational processes must act integrally at
multi purpose tasks in multidisciplinary environments.
Terminal (explicit) aim (i.e. principal function) of the
interoperability is an improvement of the operability of
process entities here.
The Interoper-mobility is one-word expression of
interoperabity + mobility abilities, which characterizes
best capabilities of our R&D project last baseline - the
CAMouflage with using of Ultra Mobile Personal
Computers (UMPCs) as the terminals.
Our WiMAX / (Wi-Fi) are no full-blooded WiMAX
(Worldwide Interoperability for Microwave Access) pro
tempore. It is over-band forwarded Wi-Fi (Wireless
Fidelity) with amplified output. But future WiMAX
hardware expected development will bring more
possibilities of our next interoper-mobile project’s
baselines. Our project next baseline increment tends to the
development and transition in operational release or
employment of interoper-mobile cybernetic roaming
domain for decision making & command support in
integrated NEC military environment. It will be
installed to the frame of international acting armed
expeditionary forces and joint operations. This domain
iteration will be found on increments of already
constructed and operational alpha and beta tested
baseline CAMouflage, originated in previous project
phases titled CYBERSYS, which made evidence of
initial operational capability already in numerous
demonstration missions.
Full understanding of the dynamic blazons and
specially of informatics-logistics flows need Power
Point presentation in real time. It will be presented at
the Conference in Santander.
References:
[1] Jim Arlow, Ila Neustat, Enterprise Patterns and
MDA: Building Berger Software with Archetype
Patterns and UML, Addison – Wesley, 2004, ISBN
032111230X.
[2] Dvořáková, M., Heretík, J., Pešková, K.,
Interoperability Improvement of Czech Civil
Protection Integrated Management, International
conference The International Emergency
Management Society, Faroe Islands, 2005.
[3] Urban, R., Urbánek, J.F., DOMINafter PROJECT,
13th TIEMS Annual Conference. International
conference The International Emergency
Management Society & Emergency Management of
Korea, Seoul, 2006.
[4] Urbánek, J.F., Teorie procesů – management
environmentů, CERM Brno, 2002, ISBN80-7204-
232-7.
[5] Urbánek, J.F., Effective Modelling of Know-How
for Cyber-Informatics Practitioners, 8th WSEAS
International Conference SMO´08, 2008, Santander.
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Fig. 2, CAMouflageflageflageflage full operational deployment.
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