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News

2012  
January The DIADEM project was presented to the consortium of the FP7 BRIDGE project. The main DIADEM achievements were presented and their reuse in the BRIDGE project was discussed. Currently, the Dynamic Process Integration Framework (DPIF) is being adapted to the BRIDGE use cases and integration with other solutions developed in the BRIDGE is taking place. In addition, the use of other DIADEM solutions in the BRIDGE project, such as MCDA & Scenario based reasoning and Gas Distribution Modeling, is being investigated.
  Thales organized a kick-off for the Dynamic Expertise Integration Networks (DEIN) “sandbox” in the FP7 BRIDGE project. DEIN is based on the Dynamic Process Integration Frameworks (DPIF) developed in the DIADEM project.

The DEIN sandbox in the BRIDGE facilitates experimentation with collaboration using operational workflows investigated in the BRIDGE project.
2011  
December A journal paper titled “A Collaborative Approach to Construction of Large Scale Distributed Reasoning Ssystems” was published in the International Journal on Artificial Intelligence Tools.

The paper was written by Ate Penders, Michiel Kamermans and Gregor Pavlin and discusses the main principles of the service oriented solutions using Dynamic Process Integration Networks (DPIF) and OntoWizard.

  A journal paper titled “Micro-Drone for Wind Vector Estimation and Gas Distribution Mapping” was accepted in the IEEE Robotics and Automation Magazine. The paper was written by Patrick Neumann, Sahar Asadi, Achim J. Lilienthal, Matthias Bartholmai and Jochen Schiller and includes integration of the gas distribution modelling system with sensor planning developed in DIADEM.

This article presents the development and validation of an autonomous, gas-sensitive micro-drone that is capable of estimating the wind vector in real time using only the onboard control unit of the micro-drone and performing gas distribution mapping. Two different sampling approaches are suggested to address this problem. On the one hand, a predefined trajectory is used to explore the target area with the micro-drone in a real-world gas distribution mapping experiment. As an alternative sampling approach, we introduce an adaptive strategy that suggests next sampling points based on an artificial potential field (APF). Initial results in real-world experiments demonstrate the capability of the proposed adaptive sampling strategy for gas distribution mapping and its use for gas source localization.
November The DIADEM project was successfully concluded on November 30, 2011. All major research and development goals were achieved according to the plan. Read more about the results here.

The project produced novel technical and scientific results, many of which are generic and can support reliable and economically feasible solutions to environmental management, in particular, and crisis management challenges, in general.
The DIADEM project targeted challenging, real-world problems from the environmental management domain that required novel solutions in multiple related fields. This was achieved by combining:
(i) a thorough requirements elicitation process, involving competent domain experts
the development of sound theoretical and
(ii) technical solutions addressing those requirements, and
(iii) a comprehensive evaluation of the system based on operational prototypes.

An overview of the technical contributions can be found on www.ist-diadem.eu.

  The DIADEM exploitation workshop was held on the 17th of November 2011 in Delft at the Art Centre.

The workshop was organized by Mr. Arnoud Vernimmen, a senior business developer from Thales, who introduced the partners to the principles of marketing and techniques supporting systematic development of exploitation strategies, such as SWOT analysis, etc. Different views of the different consortium partners on the potential use of the various technical stand-alone and integrated project results were discussed and a number of hands-on group exercises were carried out.

  The final all project members meeting took place in Delft, the Netherlands. The main focus of the meeting was wrapping up of the project and exploitation and dissemination after the project is concluded.

 

http://www.d-cis.nl/news/217-final-diadem-event

 

October Claudine Conrado presented a paper on the DIADEM results at the Int. Conference on Innovations in Sharing Environmental Observation and Information (EnviroInfo), Ispra, Italy, 2011.

The paper is titled: ICT Solutions Supporting Collaborative Information Acquisition, Situation Assessment and Decision Making in Contemporary Environmental Management Problems: The DIADEM Approach.
  Rani Pinchuk (Space Applications Services) presented a paper at the international conference on Knowledge Engineering and Ontology Development - KEOD 2011 - in Paris, France.

The paper is titled AUGMENTING SEMANTICS TO DISTRIBUTED AGENTS LOGS - Enabling Graphical After Action Analysis of Federated Agents Logs.
June Presentation of a paper on negotiation in multi-organizational environmental management at the ISESS 2011 conference
  Demonstration event and Transfer Advisory Council meeting in Copenhagen, Denmark
2010  
November MCDA & SBR at the 1st international workshop for Computational Intelligence for Disaster Management
  Large scale demonstration at Transfer Advisory Council (TAC) meeting
  MCDA & SBR at the 2nd International Conference on Intelligent Networking and Collaborative Systems
(INCoS 2010)
October Paper presented at ENVIP 2010
September Paper presented at IDC 2010
  A paper titled “An Artificial Potential Field based Sampling Strategy for a Gas-Sensitive Micro-Drone” by Patrick Neumann, Sahar Asadi, Jochen Schiller, Achim J. Lilienthal and Matthias Bartholmai had been accepted and presented at the IROS Workshop on Robotics for Environmental Monitoring (WREM).

This paper presents a sampling strategy for mobile gas sensors. Sampling points are selected using a modified artificial potential field (APF) approach, which balances multiple criteria to direct sensor measurements towards locations of high mean concentration, high concentration variance and areas for which the uncertainty about the gas distribution model is still large. By selecting in each step the most often suggested close-by measurement location, the proposed approach introduces a locality constraint that allows planning suitable paths for mobile gas sensors. Initial results in simulation and in real-world experiments with a gas-sensitive micro-drone demonstrate the suitability of the proposed sampling strategy for gas distribution mapping and its use for gas source localization.
  Session at NATO summer school
  WP4 Meeting on Integration of MCDA & SBR into the DIADEM Framework
July Paper accepted and presented at IHCI '10
  Paper presented at 13th International Conference on Information Fusion
May ICRA Workshop on Networked and Mobile Robot Olfaction in Natural, Dynamic Environments
April ACM SIGCHI (Computer Human
Interaction) conference in Atlanta, Georgia
March Danish Workshop
2009  
December: 2nd International Workshop on Agent Technology for Disaster Management (ATDM ´09)
  Book Chapter on MCDA & SBR Accepted
  Örebro University Presentations During 2009
November: 10th DKKV Forum
Tina Comes was awarded "Best Young Scientist".
Diadem was announced in a WDR radio broadcast.
October: WP4 Meeting on Visualization
  3rd International Symposium on Intelligent Distributed Computing
September: DIADEM at MobileHCI 2009
May: ISCRAM 2009 (special sessions)
April: Report from CHI, Boston, USA
March: Diadem APM Meeting
  eEnvironment 2009
2008  
November: Danish First Responders Workshop Feedback on Diadem
September: Diadem Kickoff Meeting