RESCUE Project Strategic Plan

1. RESCUE Project Strategic Plan NSF Reverse Site Visit November 30, 2005 NSF Reverse Site Visit – November 30, 2005

2. RESCUE Participants • Sharad Mehrotra (UCI) – PI, data management • Ramesh Rao (UCSD) – PI, networking • Nalini Venkatasubramanian (UCI) – distributed systems, middleware • Bhaskar Rao (UCSD) – speech recognition • Marianne Winslett (UIUC) – security and trust • Ramesh Jain (UCI) – multimedia systems • Ron Eguchi (ImageCat) – earthquake engineering, GIS • Naveen Ashish (UCI) – AI, databases • B.S. Manoj -- Networking NSF Reverse Site Visit – November 30, 2005

3. Technical Advisory Board (TAC) Rakesh Agrawal IBM Fellow and Senior Manager IBM Almaden Research Center David Kehrlein ESRI Louise Comfort Professor of Public and Urban Affairs University of Pittsburgh Dick Kieburtz Professor EmeritusOHSU/OGI School of Science & EngineeringDepartment of Computer Science & EngineeringPacific Software Research Center Mario Gerla Professor of Computer Science UCLA Fred Juang Motorola Foundation Chair Georgia Research Alliance Eminent Scholar Georgia Institue of Technology Raghu Ramakrishnan Professor of Computer Sciences University of Wisconsin-Madison NSF Reverse Site Visit – November 30, 2005

4. AGENDA • Project Overview • Discussion & feedback • TAC role & action item • A RESCUE featured Presentation • Lunch & discussions NSF Reverse Site Visit – November 30, 2005

5. Motivation: Transform the Ability of First Responders to Mitigate Crisis Observation: Right Information to the Right Person at the Right Time can result in dramatically better response • Response • Effectiveness • lives & property saved • damage prevented • cascades avoided • Quality of • Decisions • first responders • consequence planners • public Quality & Timeliness of Information • Situational • Awareness • incidences • resources • victims • needs NSF Reverse Site Visit – November 30, 2005

6. RESCUE Research • Social & Disaster Science • context, model & understanding • of process, organizational structure, needs • Engineering & Transportation • validation platform for role of IT research • Security, Privacy& Trust • Cross cutting issue at every level • Information Centric Computing • enhanced situational awareness • Networking & Computing systems • Computing, communication, & storage systems under extreme situations • Social Science • context and understanding of crisis domain • Information Technology • infrastructure & tools to enhance flow of information & situational awareness • Engineering • platform for realization, real-world physical constraints that help test, and validate IT solutions NSF Reverse Site Visit – November 30, 2005

7. Highlights of Progress in Y1 & 2 • Creation of a cohesive multidisciplinary research team • 20+ researchers, approx. 25 student FTEs, 7 institutions, multiple partners from user community, industry, and academia • Significant field work to understand crisis response domain • Significant research product • 200 plus journal & conference publications, 5+ data sets, 25+ software systems built • Multiple collaborative opportunities realized • Creation of RESCUE Testbeds • Significant progress along educational objectives NSF Reverse Site Visit – November 30, 2005

8. Site Visit Input (prioritized recommendations) • Project Level Recommendations • Focus RESCUE to a small number of potentially achievable technology innovations that address needs of the first responders • Recommendations on Project Management • Increase efforts in engaging community (academia, industry, and response organizations) • Create a Technical Advisory Committee • Recommendations on Research Direction • Address privacy concerns that arise due to infusion of technology • Enhance efforts on multimodal speech recognition research • Recommendations on Education & Outreach • Create a strategic plan to transform RESCUE into a flagship NSF project: • Take advantage of large funding to significantly advance science • Ensure lasting impact to the crisis response domain NSF Reverse Site Visit – November 30, 2005

9. Strategic Plan Outline • Mission Statement • Objectives • Strategies • Overarching project level strategies • Specific strategies to meet individual project goals • Project Structure • Multidisciplinary Research Projects • Testbeds • Artifacts • Management Plan NSF Reverse Site Visit – November 30, 2005

10. RESCUE Mission The mission of RESCUE is to enhance the ability of emergency response organizations and the public to mitigate crises, save lives, and prevent secondary and indirect human and economic loss by radically transforming ways in which these organizations gather, process, manage, use and disseminate information during man-made and natural catastrophes. NSF Reverse Site Visit – November 30, 2005

11. RESCUE Objectives • Develop technologies to dramatically improve situational awareness of first-responders, response organizations, and the public by providing them with timely access to accurate, reliable and actionable information about the disaster. NSF Reverse Site Visit – November 30, 2005

12. RESCUE Objectives • Develop technologies to dramatically improve situational awareness of first-responders, response organizations, and the public by providing them with timely access to accurate, reliable and actionable information about the disaster. • Develop technologies that enable seamless information sharing and collective decision making across highly dynamic virtual organizations consisting of diverse entities (government, private sector, NGOs, individuals). NSF Reverse Site Visit – November 30, 2005

13. RESCUE Objectives • Develop technologies to dramatically improve situational awareness of first-responders, response organizations, and the public by providing them with timely access to accurate, reliable and actionable information about the disaster. • Develop technologies that enable seamless information sharing and collective decision making across highly dynamic virtual organizations consisting of diverse entities (government, private sector, NGOs, individuals). • Develop robust communication systems that continue to operate in crisis situations despite partial/total failure of infrastructure and increased communication demands. NSF Reverse Site Visit – November 30, 2005

14. RESCUE Objectives • Develop technologies to dramatically improve situational awareness of first-responders, response organizations, and the public by providing them with timely access to accurate, reliable and actionable information about the disaster. • Develop technologies that enable seamless information sharing and collective decision making across highly dynamic virtual organizations consisting of diverse entities (government, private sector, NGOs, individuals). • Develop robust communication systems that continue to operate in crisis situations despite partial/total failure of infrastructure and increased communication demands. • Develop technologies that can be used for timely and customizeddissemination of crisis information that inform the public at large thus enhancing the abilities of the affected populations to take appropriate self-protective actions. NSF Reverse Site Visit – November 30, 2005

15. RESCUE Objectives • Develop technologies to dramatically improve situational awareness of first-responders, response organizations, and the public by providing them with timely access to accurate, reliable and actionable information about the disaster. • Develop technologies that enable seamless information sharing and collective decision making across highly dynamic virtual organizations consisting of diverse entities (government, private sector, NGOs, individuals). • Develop robust communication systems that continue to operate in crisis situations despite partial/total failure of infrastructure and increased communication demands. • Develop technologies that can be used for timely and customized dissemination of crisis information that inform the public at large thus enhancing the abilities of the affected populations to take appropriate self-protective actions. • Explore the privacy challenges that emerge as a result of infusing technology to improve information flow in crisis response networks and the public. NSF Reverse Site Visit – November 30, 2005

16. RESCUE Objectives • Develop technologies to dramatically improve situational awareness of first-responders, response organizations, and the public by providing them with timely access to accurate, reliable and actionable information about the disaster. • Develop technologies that enable seamless information sharing and collective decision making across highly dynamic virtual organizations consisting of diverse entities (government, private sector, NGOs, individuals). • Develop robust communication systems that continue to operate in crisis situations despite partial/total failure of infrastructure and increased communication demands. • Develop technologies that can be used for timely and customized dissemination of crisis information that inform the public at large thus enhancing the abilities of the affected populations to take appropriate self-protective actions. • Explore the privacy challenges that emerge as a result of infusing technology to improve information flow in crisis response networks and the public. • Promote interdisciplinary education at all levels (graduate, undergraduate, K-12) and across diverse student groups to expose the future community of citizens to issues in emergency management and homeland security – an area of global and national importance. NSF Reverse Site Visit – November 30, 2005

17. Key RESCUE Strategies Structure RESCUE research to focus on a small set of problem-focused, multidisciplinary research projects driven by RESCUE objectives Purpose Creates opportunities for groundbreaking scientific explorations Advances socio-technical approaches to complex, crisis response issues exploration of social, organizational and cultural context in which technology is adopted NSF Reverse Site Visit – November 30, 2005

18. Key RESCUE Strategies Purpose: IT assessment in crisis context Opportunities for focused interactions with end-user community platform for demonstrations Framework for collaboration Within RESCUE team With industry and academia Structure RESCUE research to focus on a small set of problem-focused, multidisciplinary research projects driven by RESCUE objectives Create living laboratories and simulations that serve as open testbeds which mimic “real-world” conditions for regional and incident-level crises. NSF Reverse Site Visit – November 30, 2005

19. Key RESCUE Strategies Structure RESCUE research to focus on a small set of problem-focused, multidisciplinary research projects driven by RESCUE objectives Create living laboratories and simulations that serve as open testbeds which mimic “real-world” conditions for regional and incident-level crises. Develop integrative artifacts that are derivatives of multidisciplinary research projects of direct relevance to response organizations Purpose: legacy of the RESCUE program Natural conduits for technology transfer Engage input from the user community in all phases of research: design, prioritization, testing, and validation Concrete mechanisms to create and sustain collaborations amongst PIs NSF Reverse Site Visit – November 30, 2005

20. RESCUE Project Structure (Prior to Site Visit) INFORMATION ANALYSIS RESCUE Thrust Areas INFORMATION SHARING INFORMATION COLLECTION INFORMATION DISSEMINATION FUTURE TESTBEDS CHAMPAIGN Testbeds CAMAS GLQ TRANSPORTATION DrillSim CELLO Humans as Sensors TrustBuilder ABC System Artifacts SAMI Traust 911 Dataset VIEWS PADOC PSAP Tsunami Dataset Bouncer pVault INLET RAPID Fundamental Research NSF Reverse Site Visit – November 30, 2005

21. RESCUE Project Structure FUTURE TESTBEDS CHAMPAIGN CAMAS GLQ TRANSPORTATION Policy-driven Information Sharing Privacy Situation Awareness Robust Networking Customized Dissemination INFORMATION ANALYSIS RESCUE Thrust Areas INFORMATION SHARING INFORMATION COLLECTION INFORMATION DISSEMINATION Testbeds DrillSim CELLO Humans as Sensors TrustBuilder ABC System Artifacts SAMI Traust 911 Dataset VIEWS PADOC PSAP Tsunami Dataset Bouncer pVault INLET RAPID RESCUE Research Projects NSF Reverse Site Visit – November 30, 2005

22. RESCUE Project Structure FUTURE TESTBEDS CHAMPAIGN CAMAS GLQ TRANSPORTATION Policy-driven Information Sharing Privacy Situation Awareness Robust Networking Customized Dissemination INFORMATION ANALYSIS RESCUE Thrust Areas INFORMATION SHARING INFORMATION COLLECTION INFORMATION DISSEMINATION Testbeds System Artifacts RESCUE Research Projects NSF Reverse Site Visit – November 30, 2005

23. RESCUE Project Structure Risk Communication System Robust Networking Solution Policy Engine Real-time Alert System Smart Reconnaissance System Enterprise Service Bus Integrated Information Dashboard Internet-based Loss Estimation System FUTURE TESTBEDS CHAMPAIGN CAMAS GLQ TRANSPORTATION Policy-driven Information Sharing Privacy Situation Awareness Robust Networking Customized Dissemination INFORMATION ANALYSIS RESCUE Thrust Areas INFORMATION SHARING INFORMATION COLLECTION INFORMATION DISSEMINATION Integrative Artifacts Testbeds RESCUE Research Projects NSF Reverse Site Visit – November 30, 2005

24. RESCUE Research Projects • SAMI: Situational Awareness from Multi-Modal Input (Project Lead: N. Ashish, UCI) • PISA: Policy-driven Information Sharing Architecture (Project Lead: M. Winslett, UIUC) • Customized Dissemination in the Large (Project Leads: K. Tierney, UC-B & N. Venkatasubramanian, UCI) • Privacy Implications of Technology Adoption (Project Lead: S. Mehrotra, UCI) • Robust Networking and Information Collection (Project Lead: BS Manoj, UCSD) NSF Reverse Site Visit – November 30, 2005

25. Project 1: Situational Awareness from Multimodal Inputs (SAMI) • Grand Challenge • Principled approach to creating situational awareness from multimodal inputs to provide decision-makers access to timely, accurate, reliable and actionable information about disasters • information spread across different modalities, human generated inputs, uncertainty and imprecision in data, scale to large events • Research Contributions • SA technologies with “events” as a unifying abstraction • next-generation DBMS for representing & reasoning about crisis situations • An integrated approach to event extraction, fusion & synthesis that exploits multimodality, context, and semantics (ingest) • Presentation framework for situational analysis & visualization • End-User Deliverables • A smart reconnaissance system to create awareness from multimodal human-generated input (“humans-as-sensors”) • Will be used in various disaster site field work by ImageCat & Real-time damage recon. System for bridges (collaboration with Caltrans) • An integrated “event-centric” information dashboard for dynamic & evolving large-scale crisis activities • Field tested at City of Ontario upcoming state-of-the-art EOC NSF Reverse Site Visit – November 30, 2005

26. Project 2: Robust Networking and Information Collection • Grand Challenge • Restore computing, communication, and higher layer services at a crisis site in a manner that is focused on the needs and opportunities that arise proximate to the crisis • Designed to serve the dynamically evolving situation at the crisis site • Research Contributions • Architectural design, protocol stack and control algorithms for hybrid wireless networks • Address tradeoffs of timeliness, accuracy and cost and reliability in data collection from crisis sites • Cross-layer techniques to deal with surge demands & infrastructure failures • Approaches to obtain low-level network data (e.g., user location) to enable novel applications useful for crisis response (e.g., occupancy analysis) • End-User Deliverables • Hybrid wireless networking system to support operations at a crisis site • Programmable hardware platforms for rapid transitioning of new research solutions to the field NSF Reverse Site Visit – November 30, 2005

27. Project 3: Policy-based Information Sharing Architecture (PISA) • Grand Challenge • Design, develop, and evaluate a policy-driven architecture for information sharing across diverse entities and organizations involved in a disaster • Scalable: many users, policies, data sources; heavy load • Flexible: policy specification, user-friendly policy management • Resilient: under attack • Research Contributions • Understanding policy needs in specific usage scenarios • Inter-agency sharing during mock crisis events • Techniques for secure and scalable policy management • Attack defense for attribute based authorization • Middleware for information sharing across dynamic virtual coalitions • End-User Deliverables • RESCUE enterprise service bus (ESB) for loosely coupled data sharing environments • A policy engine for specifying and enforcing organizational policies for secure information sharing • Design and evaluation in close collaboration with City of Champaign NSF Reverse Site Visit – November 30, 2005

28. Project 4: Customized Dissemination in the Large • Grand Challenge • Next generation warning systems that customize risk communications based on various factors resulting in appropriate level of response (not under or over response) • Variability in warning times, characteristics of recipient populations, diversity of delivery mechanisms (social and technological), size of impacted population • Research Contributions • Understanding dissemination context in specific scenarios • Two case studies at different ends of warning time spectrum and geographical context • IT for customization • Accuracy of targeting, prioritization, location, language, and social contexts • IT for delivery • Scalability, reliability, message urgency, heterogeneity of delivery mechanisms • End-User Deliverables • A system for real-time seismic alert to schools in California • Collaboration with State of California, OES; School Broadcasting Company • Builds on RAPID: a flash dissemination system developed in collaboration with LA city • Longer term risk communications system for informing public through all phases of response • A peer-based portal for hurricanes • An emergency information portal for City of Ontario NSF Reverse Site Visit – November 30, 2005

29. Project 5: Privacy Challenges in Technology Adoption Grand Challenge Explore if IT can be designed with “knobs” that can be used to control disclosure of information amongst entities (individuals, organizations, government) with the objective of empowering technology adopters to fit the technology into existing (and possibly dynamically evolving) societal and cultural expectations with respect to privacy. • Research Contributions • Understanding privacy concerns • Field studies for 4 technologies usage scenarios • Privacy technologies • Policy specification, anonymization, perturbations techniques for dynamic spatio-temporal data • Privacy Preserving Observation Systems • Demonstration through privacy preserving video surveillance • End-User Deliverables • Insights into impediments in technology adoption • A set of “best practices” to limit/eliminate privacy concerns in technology adoption • A shared common vocabulary to express privacy concerns NSF Reverse Site Visit – November 30, 2005

30. RESCUE Testbeds NBC Building CAMAS/Responsphere, UCI (incident-level response) Transportation Simulator (regional response) CAMAS: A instrumented multisensor smartspace at UCI implementing & monitoring response activities Transportation: Simulation of a large geographically dispersed disaster and its impact on transportation Different testbeds model information flow conditions under diverse types of crisis situations Champaign Testbed (data sharing) Gas Lamp Quarter, SD (robust infrastructure) Champaign: City Emergency Operations Center to serve as a testbed for Data Sharing Applications GLQ : Infrastructure to test robustness of network deployments via live experiments in real setting NSF Reverse Site Visit – November 30, 2005

31. List of RESCUE Artifacts • A smart reconnaissance system (ImageCat lead) • realizes the “humans-as-sensors” concept from multimodal human-generated input • An integrated information dashboard (UCI lead) • supports monitoring and analysis of dynamic & evolving large-scale crisis activities • A robust networking solution for use at crisis sites (UCSD lead) • RESCUE enterprise service bus (ESB) (UCSD lead) • supports loosely coupled data sharing environments • Policy-engine (UIUC lead) • specifying and enforcing organizational policies for secure information sharing • Scalable real-time alert system (UCI lead) • exploits a peer-based infrastructure for rapid delivery of short-term warnings • Customized risk communications system (UCI lead) • serves diverse populations by adapting message content and delivery channels based on context and recipient characteristics. NSF Reverse Site Visit – November 30, 2005

32. Strategic Plan Outline • Mission Statement • Objectives • Strategies • Overarching project level strategies • Specific strategies to meet individual project goals • Project Structure • Multidisciplinary Research Projects • Testbeds • Artifacts • Management Plan NSF Reverse Site Visit – November 30, 2005

33. Management Plan Objectives • To facilitate closer and more meaningful interaction between individual RESCUE researchers and Project Coordinators • SAMI, Sharing, Robust Communication, Dissemination, and Privacy. • To provide a project management structure that allows for annual evaluation of research progress on all RESCUE projects. • Special emphasis will be placed on relevance towards achieving RESCUE objectives. • To provide a convenient platform for reaching out to the end-user community, as well as to promote the educational goals of the project. • Create channels for receiving advice and input on current and future research tasks from the external community • Both scientific and end-user communities NSF Reverse Site Visit – November 30, 2005

34. Management Structure RESCUE Project PIs UCI - S. Mehrotra, Director UCSD – R. Rao Technical Advisory Committee Chair: TBD Community Advisory Board Chair: Ellis Stanley RESCUE Project Management RESCUE Executive Committee S. Mehrotra, UCI R. Rao, UCSD K. Tierney, CU R. Eguchi, ImageCat RESCUE External Interactions Steering Committee Chair: Peter Chang - UM RESCUE Technology & Artifacts Steering Committee Chair: Nalini Venkatasubramanian - UCI RESCUE Projects Situational Awareness Project Lead: N. Ashish, UCI Extreme Networking Project Lead: B.S. Manoj, UCSD Privacy Project Lead: S. Mehrotra, UCI Sharing Project Lead: M. Winslett, UIUC Dissemination Project Lead: N. Venkatasubramanian, UCI After project restructuring NSF Reverse Site Visit – November 30, 2005

35. Community Advisory Board (CAB) Ellis Stanley – Chair General Manager, City of Los Angeles Emergency Preparedness Department Jim Watkins(retired) Governor’s Office Emergency Services Bob Garrott Los Angeles County Office of Emergency Mgmt. Paulette Murphy Space and Naval Warfare Systems Command (SPAWAR) Dawna Finley Tom Hume Eileen Salmon City of Irvine Emergency Management Karen Butler Program Manager Communications Division San Diego Police Department William Maheu Assistant Chief of Police City of San Diego David Rose Lieutenant Officer UC San Diego Police Department Linda Bogue Emergency Mgmt. Coordinator Environmental Health and Safety University of California, Irvine NSF Reverse Site Visit – November 30, 2005

36. Community Advisory Board Roles • Advice and input on RESCUE research & priorities • System artifacts • Testbed development • Access to a variety of assets & homeland security resources • Crisis response drills organized by department of HS and our govt. partners • a very large (and growing) body of first responders community at various levels of government and organizations • Technology transfer opportunities • Facilitating collaborations with the industry & other academic activities NSF Reverse Site Visit – November 30, 2005

37. Technology & Artifacts Steering Committee • Mission: • To focus and direct RESCUE research into substantive interdisciplinary projects that have potential for significant impact on crisis response and “big science” breakthroughs • Objectives: • Identification of cross-disciplinary research opportunities that can lead to “big science” • Focus and consolidate system artifacts • Guide RESCUE to become well known in respective disciplinary research communities • Work with External Interactions steering committee to identify opportunities to test technologies NSF Reverse Site Visit – November 30, 2005

38. External Interactions Steering Committee • Mission: • To explore opportunities, sustain, and lead RESCUE outreach and education efforts to the external community of scientists, first-responders, government and industrial partners, and the community at large • Objectives: • Test and deploy RESCUE technologies and artifacts within the emergency management domain • Engage government and industrial partners in testbeds • Promote RESCUE to the larger community through demos, seminars, articles, etc. • Outreach to the research world through workshops • Advise Technology & Artifacts committee on artifact selection and deployment opportunities NSF Reverse Site Visit – November 30, 2005

39. Key Project Milestones Year 3 – 5 Strategic Plan Expanded Government Participation Year 1 - 5 Research Plan NSF Year 2 Review NSF Year 4 Review RESCUE Government and Industry Conference Develop Outreach Plan RESCUE Project Completion Plan Establish TAC Form Ext. Interactions and Tech. & Artifacts Committees IndustryAffiliates Program Establish CAB Testbed Development Artifact Development Benchmark Studies Validation Studies Annual PI Mtgs. NSF Reverse Site Visit – November 30, 2005

40. Following slides for TAC Role session NSF Reverse Site Visit – November 30, 2005

41. Expected Role of Technical Advisory Committee (Y3) • advice PIs on bringing focus to RESCUE • Review & critique Strategic plan & Implementation plan • Advice and input on feasibility, novelty and potential impact of research • Make recommendations on research priorities NSF Reverse Site Visit – November 30, 2005

42. Role of TAC (Y3-5) • Monitor the project and help PIs make adjustments • Provide and independent evaluation of technical merit & importance of research • Identify “gaps” in research and/or unique new opportunities • Make recommendations on program changes/adjustments • Serve as emissaries of RESCUE to broad scientific community • Help raise awareness of diverse challenges in crisis response applications • Help identify synergistic collaboration opportunities NSF Reverse Site Visit – November 30, 2005

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