WoSCR Program CMap

WoSCR Resources

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Expo

An exposition of projects, tools and resources relevant to the Whole of Society Crises Response (WoSCR) community. The initial Expo has a number of sections:

• COMPOEX Program Tools and Models (Overview, Campaign Planning Tool, Option Exploration Tool, Modeling Tools, Model Library)
• Other PMESII Tools and Programs (Simulex Reference World, Simulex Duality, SEAS-VIS, SecondChina, PMESII Tools Survey edited by Jordan Willcox)
• "Helpful Organizations" - International Emergency and Crisis Response Organizations (ISCRAM, IAEM, MPAT, SAHANA)
• Virtual Worlds Platforms and Organizations (Federal Consortium for Virtual Worlds, US Nexus, Second Life, Opensim and Blue Mars)
• Joint Futures Group - Joint Operating Environment (JOE)

VW Platform	Location	URL	Launcher
Second Life	Expo Pavilion	http://slurl.com/secondlife/VCE/128/180/23/
Second Life	JOE GeoDome	http://slurl.com/secondlife/VCE/50/50/23/

 Expo Tours are available.

The VCE Expo shows a number of displays relevant to the "Whole of Society Crises Response" (WoSCR) community. The "Expo Pavilion" is alongside the area where events and workshops are run for the community in the Virtual Collaboration Environment which comprises a collaborative networking web site and a 3D region in Second Life (and later other virtual worlds).

Part of the aim of the Expo element is to begin to engage with the tool providers, find ways to catalogue and link to their resources inor organization that is relevant to the ciommunity.  The following information is needed for each "booth":

1. a title board including organisation or logo details.
2. a wall poster (or video link).
3. a way to "click for more details" go to a nominated web URL for more information (the URL could be to this page (http://openvce.net) site if necessary).
4. other artefacts to be decided, possibly even live links to the tool, or demonstration items, further posters, etc.

Potential ways to display information include:

• One poster with link to external URL
• multiple posters in an animated "£buiold" sequence with link to external URL
• Movie or streamed video

Contact Skye Gears, the OpenVCE event support avatar, if you woud like to participate or want more information (skye.gears@googlemail.com)

An short audio commentary may also be provided, preferably in MP3 format.  Suggested contents include:

1. allow a few seconds of silence on the start of the recording.
2. introduce yourself and your organizatio , program, project or tool.
3. a sentence to dewscribe the business or applicaton area.
4. introduce the work relevant to WoSCR and PMESII analyst style communities with a few sentences, perhaps referring to how it is antciptate dit can be put into use.
5. say something  on the main content of the poster ()s) using the exact phrase used for the title(s).
6. allow 10 seconds of silence on the end of the recording.

COMPOEX Program

Conflict Modeling, Planning and Outcomes Experimentation Program (COMPOEX)

VW Platform	Location	URL	Launcher
Second Life	Expo Pavilion COMPOEX Exhibit	http://slurl.com/secondlife/VCE/98/200/23/

• Overview of COMPOEX program
• 4 COMPOEX tools/elements: 
  • Campaign Planning Tool 
  • Option Exploration Tool 
  • Model Library 
  • Modelling Tools

 

 

H1N1 - Swine Flu Scenario

Information that could be useful for an H1N1 Swine Flu Outbreak Experimental Scenario.

See OpenVCE.net Wiki Page on H1N1

Helpful Environment

"The Helpful Environment" vision is of a future in which ubiquitous computing, sensor grids and networked systems combine to help the individuals, families, businesses, organizations, the public at large, regions and countries to be self supportive and mutually helpful with specialised resources for their daily lives, for help and assistance in emergencies.  The vision, some international programmes which contribute to it, some of the organisations that are pursuing this vision and some of the Edinburgh projects and research that will we hope will help make it a reality is described in this paper:

Tate, A. (2006) The Helpful Environment: Geographically Dispersed Intelligent Agents That Collaborate, Special Issue on "The Future of AI", IEEE Intelligent Systems, May-June 2006, Vol. 27, No. 3, pp 57-61. IEEE Computer Society.

http://www.aiai.ed.ac.uk/project/ix/documents/2006/2006-ieee-is-tate-helpful-env-as-published.pdf

More details of the research that is contributing to this vision is at:

http://www.aiai.ed.ac.uk/project/plan/

For related work see these links:

• IBM Smarter Planet Programme
• Introduction - http://www.ibm.com/smarterplanet/us/en/overview/ideas/index.html?re=sp2
• Blog - http://asmarterplanet.com/
• IBM’s vision is to bring a new level of intelligence to how the world works – how every person, business, organization, government, natural system, and man-made system interacts. Each interaction represents a chance to do something better, more efficiently, more productively. But more than that, as the systems of the planet become smarter, we have a chance to open up meaningful new possibilities for progress.

Limited Objective Experiments

Scenario: H1N1 Outbreak

• scale of the outbreak: few cases to global pandemic?
• location (if not global)? in/near military base (US)
• what level of expertise will the subjects have? e.g. CDC will be very knowledgable
• who will produce a credible initial scenario and provide injects? Contacts? Adapt existing scenarios.
• scenario: bioterrorism (hint in initial info)
• some resources at http://openvce.net/h1n1

Aims:

• what are we evaluating in the different experiments? (collaboration protocol for expt 1 and expt 2, virtual collaboration environment, OpenVCE web site)
• what are we going to measure during the experiment, if anything?
• specific questions to be answered?

Experiment 1

Dates: Nov. 16-20, 2009

Features:

• 2 teams, 5-7 people each
• subjects should attend VIWS-3?
• subjects should be physically distributed (to avoid non-virtual interaction)
• use "Brain" to pull in more people - what if these new people do not have SL presence / not seen OpenVCE before?
• injects: how can we tell they are stalling?

Experiment 2

Dates: Jan. 25-29, 2010

Features:

• 2 teams, 5-7 people each (as for expt 1) - same people/teams?
• note: first half of collaboration protocol is largely about introducing the team to each other
• continuation of expt 1? (challenge!)

Experiment 3 (Final)

Dates: Feb. 22-26, 2010

Features:

• 2 teams, 7+ people each - same people/teams?

Virtual Collaboration Protocol

This is an entry page for discussion on the Virtual Collaboration Protocol provided by Rob Cross.

Attached is the protocol that Rob has generated to guide interactions for distributed collaboration among the WoSCR community. Please review and provide your input and thoughts on it. The protocol is attached as a MS Word .docx file (direct link here).

Discussions will be via attaching comments and replies here on http://openvce.net/vce-protocol and changes to the .doc file (with track changes on) can be made if people want to make substantive comments. They can be sent directly to Rob Cross or anyone can upload the modified copies if they wish and give the link to Rob Cross as that can be a more effective way to share the content.

A document on the use of Cmaps to use the protocol by Brian Moon is also attached as a MS Word .doc file (direct link here).

The top level process of the virtual collaboration protocol is here as a Standard Operating Procedure for "Collaborate".

Virtual Collaboration Protocol: video introduction (M4V and WMV) - download [backup 1] [backup 2]

1. Part 1 - 00:00 - 02:30 Introduction to VCP for VCEE
2. Part 2 - 02:30 - 07:06 Pre-Meeting 1 - Establish Process Coordinator, Invite Team, Individual Inputs
3. Part 3 - 07:06 - 13:25 Meeting 1 - Introductions, Process Roles, Integrated Problem Map
4. Part 4 - 13:25 - 23:00 Pre-Meeting 2 and Meeting 2 - Expertise, Mapping to Problem, Reach-out, Assignments, Introduce Solutions
5. Part 5 -  23:00 - 28:00 Pre-Meeting 3, Meeting 3 and Afterwards - Individual and Sub-teams Develop Solutions, Case Planner and Integrator Work, Report-out, Solution Refinement, Solution Completion 

Virtual Reality Room

Description of the "Whole of Earth" (WoE) Virtual Reality Room, how to use it, and how to get to and from it.

WoSCR Community - Emergency Awareness

Community Emergency Awareness (Feeds to be Developed)

• Biological disease outbreak
• Biological attack
• Chemical attack
• Cyber attack
• Explosive attack
• Natural disaster
• Nuclear detonation

Aggregator Categories:

• Recent Emergencies -  http://openvce.net/aggregator/categories/1
• Aggregator Sources:
  • CDC Outbreaks and Incidents - http://openvce.net/aggregator/sources/2
  • Tsunami Warnings - http://openvce.net/aggregator/sources/3
  • Severe Weather Warnings - http://openvce.net/aggregator/sources/4
• Other Examples:
  • Earthquakes M5+, past 7 days, USGC - p://openvce.net/aggregator/sources/5

See examples at:

• http://www.bt.cdc.gov/rss/
• http://www.nhc.noaa.gov/aboutrss.shtml 
• http://www.weather.gov/rss/
• http://www.prh.noaa.gov/ptwc/feeds/ptwc_rss_pacific.xml
• http://earthquake.usgs.gov/eqcenter/catalogs/7day-M5.xml - Note use of maps with location. Can we show that in our Feeds?

WoSCR Logo

Suggestions for a logo and icon  for the Whole of Society Crises Response (WoSCR) community... To be discussed.  Comments and alternative proposals welcome.  Please attach your proposal as a child page via the link at the foot of this page, and make an entry in the table below, using thumbnail sized images and links to the main image (use the camera icon in the WYSIWYG editor).

Logo	Icon	Designer
#0	#0	Austin Tate 26-Aug-2009
		David Fliesen 29-Aug-2009