A Normative Enterprise Architecture for Guiding End-to-End Emergency Response Decision Support

2010 ◽  
Vol 2 (2) ◽  
pp. 1-18 ◽  
Author(s):  
Michael J. Marich ◽  
Benjamin L. Schooley ◽  
Thomas A. Horan
Keyword(s):  
Decision Support ◽  
Information Systems ◽  
Emergency Response ◽  
Enterprise Architecture ◽  
Optimal Decision ◽  
Emergency Medical ◽  
Response Information ◽  
San Mateo County ◽  
High Level ◽  
Time Critical

This article examines the underlying architecture guiding the development and use of enterprise decision support systems that maintain the delivery of time critical public services. A normative architecture, developed from comparative cases involving San Mateo County and Mayo Clinic Emergency Medical Services systems, provides a collection of characteristics meant to guide an emergency response system toward a high level of performance and enable optimal decision-making. At a national symposium, academics and practitioners involved in promoting effective emergency response information systems provided validation for the architecture and next steps for enhancing emergency response information systems. Normative architecture characteristics and expert perspectives from the symposium are integrated into a framework that offers an enterprise approach for delivering time-critical emergency response services. This article provides recommendations for navigating toward a more incremental approach in developing enterprise-oriented emergency information services and examines future trends involving the application of normative architectural concepts to real-world emergency medical settings.

A Normative Enterprise Architecture for Guiding End-to-End Emergency Response Decision Support

2012 ◽  
pp. 71-87 ◽  
Author(s):  
Michael J. Marich ◽  
Benjamin L. Schooley ◽  
Thomas A. Horan
Keyword(s):  
Decision Support ◽  
Information Systems ◽  
Emergency Response ◽  
Enterprise Architecture ◽  
Optimal Decision ◽  
Emergency Medical ◽  
Response Information ◽  
San Mateo County ◽  
Optimal Decision Making ◽  
Time Critical

This article examines the underlying architecture guiding the development and use of enterprise decision support systems that maintain the delivery of time critical public services. A normative architecture, developed from comparative cases involving San Mateo County and Mayo Clinic Emergency Medical Services systems, provides a collection of characteristics meant to guide an emergency response system toward a high level of performance and enable optimal decision-making. At a national symposium, academics and practitioners involved in promoting effective emergency response information systems provided validation for the architecture and next steps for enhancing emergency response information systems. Normative architecture characteristics and expert perspectives from the symposium are integrated into a framework that offers an enterprise approach for delivering time-critical emergency response services. This article provides recommendations for navigating toward a more incremental approach in developing enterprise-oriented emergency information services and examines future trends involving the application of normative architectural concepts to real-world emergency medical settings.

scholarly journals Decision Rules Acquisition for Inconsistent Disjunctive Set-Valued Ordered Decision Information Systems

2015 ◽  
Vol 2015 ◽  
pp. 1-8 ◽  
Author(s):  
Hongkai Wang ◽  
Yanyong Guan ◽  
Jilin Huang ◽  
Jianting Shen
Keyword(s):  
Information System ◽  
Decision Support ◽  
Information Systems ◽  
Decision Support Systems ◽  
Support Systems ◽  
Decision Rules ◽  
Optimal Decision ◽  
Formal Framework ◽  
Rules Acquisition

Set-valued information system is an important formal framework for the development of decision support systems. We focus on the decision rules acquisition for the inconsistent disjunctive set-valued ordered decision information system in this paper. In order to derive optimal decision rules for an inconsistent disjunctive set-valued ordered decision information system, we define the concept of reduct of an object. By constructing the dominance discernibility function for an object, we compute reducts of the object via utilizing Boolean reasoning techniques, and then the corresponding optimal decision rules are induced. Finally, we discuss the certain reduct of the inconsistent disjunctive set-valued ordered decision information system, which can be used to simplify all certain decision rules as much as possible.

Evaluating Information Systems

2012 ◽  
pp. 177-193
Author(s):  
João Duarte ◽  
André Vasconcelos
Keyword(s):  
Information Systems ◽  
Enterprise Architecture ◽  
Boundary Object ◽  
Conceptual Base ◽  
Model Driven ◽  
Model Driven Software Development ◽  
High Level ◽  
Real Time Information ◽  
Software Development Practices ◽  
Time Information

In the past decade, the rush to technology has created several flaws in terms of managing computers, applications, and middleware and information systems. Therefore, organizations struggle to understand how these elements behave. Even today, as Enterprise Architectures grow in significance and are acknowledged as advantageous artifacts to help manage change, their benefit to the organization has yet to be fully explored. In this paper, the authors focus on the challenge of real-time information systems evaluation, using the enterprise architecture as a boundary object and a base for communication. The solution proposed is comprised of five major steps: establishing a strong conceptual base on the evaluation of information systems, defining a high level language for this activity, extending an architecture creation pipeline, creating a framework that automates it, and the framework’s implementation. The conceptual framework proposed avoids imprecise definitions of quality and quality attributes, was materialized in a model-eval-display loop framework, and was implemented using Model Driven Software Development practices and tools. Finally, a prototype is applied to a real-world scenario to verify the conceptual solution in practice.

Evaluating Information Systems Constructing a Model Processing Framework

2010 ◽  
Vol 6 (3) ◽  
pp. 17-32 ◽  
Author(s):  
João Duarte ◽  
André Vasconcelos
Keyword(s):  
Information Systems ◽  
Enterprise Architecture ◽  
Boundary Object ◽  
Conceptual Base ◽  
Model Driven ◽  
Model Driven Software Development ◽  
High Level ◽  
Real Time Information ◽  
Software Development Practices ◽  
Time Information

In the past decade, the rush to technology has created several flaws in terms of managing computers, applications, and middleware and information systems. Therefore, organizations struggle to understand how these elements behave. Even today, as Enterprise Architectures grow in significance and are acknowledged as advantageous artifacts to help manage change, their benefit to the organization has yet to be fully explored. In this paper, the authors focus on the challenge of real-time information systems evaluation, using the enterprise architecture as a boundary object and a base for communication. The solution proposed is comprised of five major steps: establishing a strong conceptual base on the evaluation of information systems, defining a high level language for this activity, extending an architecture creation pipeline, creating a framework that automates it, and the framework’s implementation. The conceptual framework proposed avoids imprecise definitions of quality and quality attributes, was materialized in a model-eval-display loop framework, and was implemented using Model Driven Software Development practices and tools. Finally, a prototype is applied to a real-world scenario to verify the conceptual solution in practice.

Improving Emergency Response Systems Through the Use of Intelligent Information Systems

2014 ◽  
Vol 10 (2) ◽  
pp. 37-55 ◽  
Author(s):  
Tagelsir Mohamed Gasmelseid
Keyword(s):  
Information Systems ◽  
Real Time ◽  
Emergency Response ◽  
Information Acquisition ◽  
Healthcare Organizations ◽  
Distributed Information ◽  
Response Information ◽  
Technological Developments ◽  
Real Time Information ◽  
Time Information

The shifts experienced in the environment of disaster operations and emergency response are reshaping the context of information acquisition and utilization in hospitals. In addition to the formulation of emergency response plans, healthcare organizations (especially hospitals) are being challenged by the growing need to maintain and share real time information necessary for the improvement of emergency response processes. Such information-related attention originates from many emergency-specific concerns including the limited focus of current emergency response information systems, decision limitations that challenge the formulation of decision support applications and the characterization of user requirements, the heterogeneity of emergency response information and the difficulty of integrating spatially distributed information sources. The increased attention in emergency response information also emerges from the recent technological developments (in terms of hardware, software functionalities, databases and telecommunication, among others) which significantly affected the processing, storage and retrieval of real time information. This paper focuses on the examination of the context of emergency response in Al Ahsaa area of Saudi Arabia and the applicability of multi-agent information systems through the proposal of an integrated architecture. Then it sheds light on the implementation concerns to ensure the contribution of the proposed architecture towards the engagement of stakeholders, the improvement of the availability and accessibility of emergency management information and the harmonization of emergency response operations. .

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