Assuring Information Quality in Sharing Platform for Disaster Management

Disaster management is a multifaceted process aimed at minimizing the social and physical impact of these large-scale events. In this paper, we propose a quality-mind assuring approach in which web services are discovered, composed and executed considering both functional and QoS requirements. We prescribe a QoS management framework that defines fundamental principles, concepts and mechanisms which can be applied to evolve an effective distributed resource sharing platform for quality-mind assuring of web services - the so-called quality enable web service architecture. The paper also defines an extensible QoS model and a fuzzy algorithm for services evaluation and selection. The prototype system is designed and used to demonstrate the applicability of the prescribed framework to support user level QoS requirements for disaster management.

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