A P2P Service Management Model for Emergency Response Using Virtual Service Pool.

Emergency response is a time critical work that needs teams cooperate with various specialties from different organizations. It also needs to integrate existing information system to collect and assemble necessary knowledge and resources for critical emerging tasks and use it for collaborative problem solving. The model presented in this paper is the main result of an on-going national science foundation project of china, called Emergency-Driven Virtual Organization (EDVO), which aims at building and developing an innovative software infrastructure (software, models, services, etc.) for supporting collaborative work of events handling in emergency response systems. The model is to describe all kinds of resources in unified semantics and make knowledge sharing among various systems possible. With this basis, related resources and services can be flexibly and dynamically organized as a virtual organization to handle different kinds of emergent events. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]