1. A Framework for the Search And Rescue Domain Abraham Rodríguez-Rodríguez & Miguel Alemán-Flores Department of Computer Science University of Las Palmas de Gran Canaria Canary Islands – Spain {arodriguez,maleman}@dis.ulpgc.es

2. October, 20-22th 2001SOL'20012 Contents SAR domain RCC operative Architecture & application Knowledge assets Knowledge management benefits Conclusions

3. October, 20-22th 2001SOL'20013 SAR Main role: Search And Rescue Organization: Air Squadron Rescue Coordination Centre

4. October, 20-22th 2001SOL'20014 RCC operative RCC comprises all the experience and heuristics needed in facing emergencies what, how and when Staff: coordinator and operators

5. October, 20-22th 2001SOL'20015 Software architecture

6. October, 20-22th 2001SOL'20016 GUI snapshot

7. October, 20-22th 2001SOL'20017 Information Management Includes Manager for the operative procedures Resource manager Entities and contacts agenda Chronology reports utility Geographical Information System

8. October, 20-22th 2001SOL'20018 GUI- reports utility

9. October, 20-22th 2001SOL'20019 GUI- GIS

10. October, 20-22th 2001SOL'200110 Knowledge Assets The tool captures a significant part of the organization knowledge. RCC work-flow Operation procedures Knowledge-bases modules

11. October, 20-22th 2001SOL'200111 Management benefits Relation with knowledge management activities (Wiig, 1997) Knowledge creation knowledge engineering process Knowledge compilation Combining heterogeneous knowledge sources to produce the operational procedures docs. Ontology of the SAR domain Knowledge dissemination Knowledge availability to any user Knowledge application The real use of the application

12. October, 20-22th 2001SOL'200112 Conclusions Project goal from a KM perspective Make the organization act as intelligently as possible to secure its overall success (Tiwana, 2000) We have developed a flexible and integrated environment that captures the organization work flow The most valuable product is not the software itself, but the documents with the specification of the operational procedures Limitations The definition of new types of missions are limited by the (fixed) set of primitive tasks. There are missions were assets from multiple organizations participate. New primitive tasks must be defined in order to track coordination actions among them. The current version does not support multiple missions with shared assets.