Building an emergency management application as a process driven tool cooperation
Valérie Lavigne, M. Firmignac · OSTI OAI (U.S. Department of Energy Office of Scientific and Technical Information) · 1995
Building an Emergency Management Information System (EMIS) should be guided with at least the following requirements: providing the emergency managers with the best services for managing the crisis situations, and especially a direct access to the information needed to act and make decisions; providing a system that is not a proprietary one but a combination of off the shelf products that work together in an efficient way; providing help and guidance to the end-user in using the system and navigating through it. The integration of several tools together in order to build a final application should be done along four axes: data integration, control integration, presentation integration and process integration. In order to fulfill these requirements and to cover the four aspects of integration, the authors propose to use a Broadcast Message Server approach to define an integration framework and a Process Model approach to ease the navigation in the system.