Context-based Knowledge Logistics for Disaster Management

Системы транспортировки играют существенную роль в решении проблем, возникающих в случае природных катаклизмов, стихийных бедствий и катастроф. Такие современные технологии как, например, Интернет делают возможным создание интеллектуальных систем транспортировки для расширения их возможностей для своевременного реагирования на эти катастрофы. Эта статья представляет подход к реализации Интернет сервисов для прокладки маршрутов в больших системах транспортировки, используя преимущества идеи логистики знаний. Логистика знаний основана синергетической интеграции знаний, приобретенных из распределенных источников необходимых для получения нового или дополнения существующего знания. Данная статья показывает масштабируемость и расширяемость представленного подхода при добавлении новых источников знаний. Introduction Nowadays organizations have to restructure in order to respond to their rapidly changing environment. This causes a growing recognition of the need for new kinds of organizational structures that could be distributed, mobile and flexible and therefore exhibit characteristics of innovation, resilience, and self-management. One of the most widespread forms of organizational structures the form of networked organization can be mentioned. Among the main advantages of the networked organization the following ones are selected: • scalability: new members can join a networked organization by establishing relationships with some of its members, • robustness: a networked organization will continue to operate even if some of the network nodes stop, • sensitivity and adaptability: when flexible enough the relationships between the organization's units (the network's arcs) may be easily and quickly readjusted in accordance with changes in the environment, • intensive knowledge/skills/experience exchange between the organization's units resulting in maximization of the knowledge potential of the organization. As it can be seen new forms of organizational structures including networked and virtual organization rely on intensive usage of knowledge and therefore on modern information technologies dealing with data and knowledge. Currently, knowledge often referred to as corporate knowledge in the contexts of the business and manufacturing is the key resource in the modern era of information. We will proceed with the following definition, taken from [1]: Context: any information that can be used to characterize the situation of entities (i.e. whether a person, place or object) that are considered relevant to the interaction between a user and an application,