Service Oriented Architecture and (Multi-)Agent Systems Technology.January 11 th - 15 th Crisis Management in ALIVE Thomas Quillinan D-CIS Lab, Thales Research and Technology, Delft. (Formally IIDS Group, VU Amsterdam)

2 Service Oriented Architecture & (Multi)-Agent Systtens Technology January Introduction Managing Crisis Modeling existing crisis management structure in the Netherlands. Using model to simulate disasters. Integrate ALIVE technologies to improve response. ALIVE EU FUNDED PROJECT

3 Service Oriented Architecture & (Multi)-Agent Systtens Technology January Co-ordination Inter-agency Cooperation Different services mean different priorities. Political Structure. Disaster profile changes. ALIVE EU FUNDED PROJECT

4 Service Oriented Architecture & (Multi)-Agent Systtens Technology January From Minor Crisis... Few Personnel involved. Minor accident to local incident. Managing limited set of resources. ALIVE EU FUNDED PROJECT

5 Service Oriented Architecture & (Multi)-Agent Systtens Technology January with local management... Coordination between different services handled on site. Communication between local crisis management team and services on the ground. ALIVE EU FUNDED PROJECT

6 Service Oriented Architecture & (Multi)-Agent Systtens Technology January to major disaster... Thales ALIVE Scenario Flooding of a major city (Rotterdam). Managing the “Cold” and “Warm” periods. ALIVE EU FUNDED PROJECT

7 Service Oriented Architecture & (Multi)-Agent Systtens Technology January with major coordination. Authorities:  Local Government  Safety Regions  LOCC / NCC  Ministry of Internal Affairs GRIP Levels  Levels: 0 to 4 Ministry Regional NCC Local Mayors LOCC ALIVE EU FUNDED PROJECT

8 Service Oriented Architecture & (Multi)-Agent Systtens Technology January Municipality LOCC StructureNCC LOCC Police Fire Medical District Defence Policy Operational Services ALIVE EU FUNDED PROJECT

9 Service Oriented Architecture & (Multi)-Agent Systtens Technology January Grip 1 - Street (Minor) ALIVE EU FUNDED PROJECT

10 Service Oriented Architecture & (Multi)-Agent Systtens Technology January Grip 2 - Area ALIVE EU FUNDED PROJECT

11 Service Oriented Architecture & (Multi)-Agent Systtens Technology January Grip 3-Region ALIVE EU FUNDED PROJECT

12 Service Oriented Architecture & (Multi)-Agent Systtens Technology January Grip 4 - National ALIVE EU FUNDED PROJECT

13 Service Oriented Architecture & (Multi)-Agent Systtens Technology January Scenario Overview North Sea Storm Dikes in Zuid Holland Province breached Rotterdam City and Europoort flooded Initially GRIP 2 - Single Safety region Upgraded to GRIP 3 - Multiple regions. Target: Save Niet Zelfredzamen ALIVE EU FUNDED PROJECT

14 Service Oriented Architecture & (Multi)-Agent Systtens Technology January Niet Zelfredzamen Patients in Hospitals Patients in Mental Health Facilities Prisoners Elderly (OAPs) in Homes... ALIVE EU FUNDED PROJECT

15 Service Oriented Architecture & (Multi)-Agent Systtens Technology January Risk to Netherlands ALIVE EU FUNDED PROJECT

16 Service Oriented Architecture & (Multi)-Agent Systtens Technology January Scenario: Rotterdam ALIVE EU FUNDED PROJECT

17 Service Oriented Architecture & (Multi)-Agent Systtens Technology January Risk Area (approx) ALIVE EU FUNDED PROJECT

18 Service Oriented Architecture & (Multi)-Agent Systtens Technology January Safety Regions ALIVE EU FUNDED PROJECT

19 Service Oriented Architecture & (Multi)-Agent Systtens Technology January Risk Area (actual) ALIVE EU FUNDED PROJECT

20 Service Oriented Architecture & (Multi)-Agent Systtens Technology January Evacuation Managing transportation of at-risk people. Coordination of services Capacity Speed Time to arrival Suitability ALIVE EU FUNDED PROJECT

21 Service Oriented Architecture & (Multi)-Agent Systtens Technology January Simulations of crises expensive and time consuming Distributed / Automated simulations seems to provide an ideal solution Challenges:  How to make the simulations realistic?  What to simulate?  How to feed results back into process? Crisis Management Scenarios have organisation, co-ordination and services that can be independently assessed and modelled. Use Case Motivation ALIVE EU FUNDED PROJECT

22 Service Oriented Architecture & (Multi)-Agent Systtens Technology January Simulation Toolkit:  Allow different scenarios to be rapidly modelled and the results displayed for ease of evaluation  Services represent the actions that are performed by crisis management personnel  Coordination between these tasks result in changes to the enactment of the entire scenario.  Organisational constraints determine the coordination that can take place. Outline of Use Case ALIVE EU FUNDED PROJECT

23 Service Oriented Architecture & (Multi)-Agent Systtens Technology January Flooding of two adjacent regions Evacuation of these regions required This entails evacuation of Nietzelfredzamen  Hospitals  Elderly  Prisoners Scenario ALIVE EU FUNDED PROJECT

24 Service Oriented Architecture & (Multi)-Agent Systtens Technology January Demo: Results of a Simulation run ALIVE EU FUNDED PROJECT

25 Service Oriented Architecture & (Multi)-Agent Systtens Technology January Basic Interactions: Interaction Structures… ALIVE EU FUNDED PROJECT

26 Service Oriented Architecture & (Multi)-Agent Systtens Technology January Evacuation of a Hospital requires planning for both Critical and non-critical patients. Help must be sought if Norms (e.g. time required to evacuated greater than a limit) will be violated. Organisational Structure guides how resources are used to fulfil action plans …Leads to Action Plans ALIVE EU FUNDED PROJECT

27 Service Oriented Architecture & (Multi)-Agent Systtens Technology January Organisation – Coordination Level Model Transformation ALIVE EU FUNDED PROJECT Organisation LevelCoordination Level OL::SceneCL::CompositeAction OL::LandmarkPatternCL::CompositeAction OL::LandmarkCL::CompositeAction OL::Objective (with subObjectives) OL::Objective CL::CompositeAction CL::AtomicAction OL::PartialStateDescriptionCL::AtomicActionResult OL::PlayerCL::Participant OL::...CL::...  Transformation Definition  Model2Model (QVTO)  result:: actions model

28 Service Oriented Architecture & (Multi)-Agent Systtens Technology January Actions ALIVE EU FUNDED PROJECT

29 Service Oriented Architecture & (Multi)-Agent Systtens Technology January Actions (Evacuate Hospital Scene) ALIVE EU FUNDED PROJECT

30 Service Oriented Architecture & (Multi)-Agent Systtens Technology January Specifies the organisational context of the domain  Interaction Structure specifies the desired/required interactions within the organisation  Social Structure specifies the important parties that play a part in the organisation (Basic) Ontology support  Creating roles/objectives/etc. adds their name as concept to a generated ontology  Roles/objectives/… can be named by selecting a concept from an existing ontology OperettA ALIVE EU FUNDED PROJECT

31 Service Oriented Architecture & (Multi)-Agent Systtens Technology January OperettA.check adds model validation to the organisational model editor  Validates organisational model based on defined constraints to ensure model correctness  Checks vary from checking whether all roles have a name…  To checking whether landmark patterns are connected and acyclic Organisational Model Validation ALIVE EU FUNDED PROJECT

32 Service Oriented Architecture & (Multi)-Agent Systtens Technology January AgentScape Coordination Actions are automatically created as Agents running on top of AgentScape AgentScape: Multi-agent Middleware system Provides scalable agent infrastructure services and applications in a secure manner Platform to support Agents: Create/delete agents Migrate Agents between locations Locating Agents/Services Developed by IIDS Group in TUDelft (formally in VUA) Thales supporting Open Source development with TUDelft, The Book Depository, University of Bath, University of Warwick, University of Cardiff, …and you?

33 Service Oriented Architecture & (Multi)-Agent Systtens Technology January Agent platforms … Frameworks for scalable, interactive, secure, robust, interoperable distributed autonomous systems/agents supporting service agreement negotiation and service agreement enforcement

34 Service Oriented Architecture & (Multi)-Agent Systtens Technology January AgentScape Framework Designed to support large scale distributed mobile agent applications. A distributed agent operating system kernel (AOS) Middleware services:  agent management  lease management (ie resource mgt based on WSAS)  location management (location service)  web service access gateway External services  look-up services  configuration services

35 Service Oriented Architecture & (Multi)-Agent Systtens Technology January Services in AgentScape Internal Services  services extending AOS kernel functionality  example: resource management subsystem External Services  services extending application level functionality  example: Agent Factory, WS configuration, directory services

36 Service Oriented Architecture & (Multi)-Agent Systtens Technology January AgentScape Conceptual Model

37 Service Oriented Architecture & (Multi)-Agent Systtens Technology January AgentScape Platform for mobile agents AgentScape middleware agent server1 WS gateway service server ws1 AgentScape Interface AOS Interface XML-RPC SunRPC agent servier2 agent ws2 ds

38 Service Oriented Architecture & (Multi)-Agent Systtens Technology January Conclusions Crisis Management Simulations need a MAS based approach. Autonomous interactive systems Message based interaction ALIVE tools provide the means to easily generate new simulations without “reprogramming” Model the organisation level once (for Crisis Management) Coordination level adapts to changes in the situation Services utilised towards solving the “problem” (reaching the goals) AgentScape used to provide runtime environment for the agents and the services.

39 Service Oriented Architecture & (Multi)-Agent Systtens Technology January Calico Jack Demo