• 094817 - INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY ARCHITECTURE MODELLING

Contents

1. Critical Incident Response Systems - analysis of the characteristics of the main critical incident response systems all over the world and exploration of their design principles
2. Earthquake Early Warnings Systems (EEWS) – investigation over the different typologies of EEWS and analysis of the Japanese Case study
3. ICT role in disaster response – Information classification (operational, decisional) and role in emergency management. Analysis of the traditional communication paradigmswith respect to communication needs, functional and non-functional quality of information
4. New ICT Configuration and Communication Paradigms – Analysis of the new media sources, their characteristics and the transformation in communication patterns during emergencies
5. Analysis of the problematical aspects of the use of ICT for disaster planning and crisis managing
6. Emergency process modeling using UML – Application of the unified modeling language features for modeling the emergency processes, sub-processes and activities (Process Diagrams, Activity Diagrams)
7. Data management and organization – Analysis of the data flows in the emergency management processes and consecutive database design – (Entity-relationship Model)
8. Knowledge management and data mining for decision making – Considerations on how to transform data into knowledge and successive decisions during a crisis

Objectives

The course aims at introducing Information and Communication Technologies (ICT) in emergency management contexts, facing new challenges in both technological aspects and disaster events. Furthermore, process modelling concepts and tools are presented in order to enable the students to analyzing and designing emergency management processes.

• Knowledge and understanding : The course offers foundational knowledge related to critical incident response systems and seismic early warning systems and gives understanding tools for analyzing the information-data-knowledge construction process in emergency management. It offers also a methodology of modeling information and communication systems through a process-oriented approach.
• Applying knowledge and understanding: The interdisciplinary approach adopted in the modulus permits to the students the application and integration of the Foundational Knowledgethey acquire from the three courses in a problem-centered approach by modeling emergency management processes and related information and communication solutions in seismic disasters.
• Making judgments: The course offers to the students tools and competences to analyze and evaluate both opportunities and limits of introducing ICT in disaster management.
• Communication skills: Rationalization and design choice defense are developed during the course and all along the project review activities performed with the professors. The team working skills are developed during the project development.
• Learning skills: The interdisciplinary approach permits learning How-to-Learn by obtaining insights into the process of learning

Required preliminary knowledge

Basic proficiency in Computer Science.

Material

• Slides and lecture notes by the teacher shall be found on BeeP platform

Exam

The exam consists of an oral presentation of a case-study project followed by a group and individual discussion of the project design choices and related concepts.