A service-oriented framework for controlling invasive species in agriculture

The Emerald Ash Borer (EAB) has killed or infested millions of ash trees in the United States. It has the potential to decimate Ash as a component of North American forests, which will have dramatic ecological and economic effects. Government agencies have joined forces to implement a long-term program to contain and eventually eradicate EAB from North America. One key requirement for the success of this program is the underlying information sharing infrastructure. In this paper, we propose a novel framework, called Sentinel, to automate the dissemination of EAB-related information among EAB partners. We propose an ontology-based service-oriented dissemination model. We introduce three (3) topic-based notification protocols: naïve push notification (NPN), centralized push notification (CPN), and distributed push notification (DPN). Finally, we present experiment results to compare the proposed protocols.