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8.5.2 Develop a design pattern relating events and decisions
Develop a design pattern that triggers consideration of decision alternatives upon occurrence of an event: “if you see this event, then consider these decisions”. When a
registered event occurs a set of possible decision templates would be presented to a person. Decisions would be based on Complex Events. Show use of the eventdecision
pattern with several use cases. Connect the pattern to the OGC Event Architecture and consider other eventing models. Link the pattern to the Decision Object modeling in the
previous recommendation.
Continued harmonization of location in Emergency Management Standards in particular OASIS standards EDXL and GML is recommended. EDXL provides a rich set of
standards for Emergency Management decision-making. These standards include information about location. Carl Reed of OGC has been working with the OASIS
Emergency Management Technical Committee towards harmonization of the OASIS and OGC standards. Of particular importance is the continued work on the OASIS GML
profile or “EDXL Where”. Also relevant is coordination on NIEM and UCORE.
8.5.3 Standardize methods for Information Sharing between clients.
Conduct further experimentation and development on Information Sharing between fusion client components. This work can build on the recommendations regarding OWS
Context contained in OWS-7 Information Sharing, including OWS Context Engineering Report OGC 10-035r1. The activity should result in a standardized method of sharing
data, including geospatial, between Integrated Clients and potentially catalogs.
8.5.4 Promote diversity of interoperable Fusion Analyst Components
The standards developed for fusion should focus on interoperability. It is desirable to minimize the number of interoperability standards in order to optimize and stabilize the
communications. In contrast, for components it is desirable to have a diversity of components that implement the standards. This diversity of clients allows for meeting
the various needs of different analysts and communities. Components for the fusion analyst are the focus on the results of all three categories of fusion. The analyst clients
must be able to accept results from components performing observation, feature and decision fusion using interoperability standards. The Analyst component may
additionally perform fusion internal to the component. See Section 8.4.4
8.5.5 Develop registry for Decision Fusion, e.g., using ebRIM.
Develop registries to support Decision Fusion, for example using an ebRIM V3.0 model. This would use ebRIM ClassificationScheme registry object to model a decision
process as in a decision tree. Version 3.0 of ebRIM is selected since it is the basis of the OGC CSW-ebRIM specification for which several OGC members have developed
commercial implementations.
8.5.6 Develop open standards for visualization relevant to fusion
OGC has developed an initial baseline of standards to support geographic visualization in a distributed, interoperable environment. These standards should continued to be
matured for example in the areas of: 3D, uncertainty, provenance, and decision alternatives and selection.
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8.5.7 “See and Talk” collaboration with common geographic view
