2013
DHSS 2013 Proceeding
The edge decision support framework - emergency management training and support to operations
Authors: Marco Biagini, Bruce Joy
Abstract
Organizations need agile Command, Control and Coordination frameworks that support a rising real-time flow of information and visualization with embedded training features. Decision makers and their teams are increasingly likely to be geographically distributed and composed of members of different organizations. One inherent problem is the limitation on sharing and visualizing time-critical information due to current informational boundaries. The authors' research focuses on the design of an Edge Decision Support Framework (EDSF) and a Common Synthetic Environment Service (CSES) that provides shared awareness to a distributed group of users who operate as a team in a ?synthetic? Command Center. It focuses on the concept, design and development of an integrated platform that can be used for training through operations and is suited to supporting Civil-Military Cooperation through its mechanisms for crowdsourced situational awareness and Command and Control supporting remote collaboration. This paper addresses various issues including security, bandwidth and network reliability challenges and illustrates the potential for an approach that enables civilian and defense services to be trained to cooperate through web and mobile applications via interoperable information exchange models.
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