Interaction Protocols Adaptation Based Coordination for Crisis Management Processes

Abstract

This work deals with Interaction Protocols adaptation for coordination in the context of Crisis Management Processes. One possible way to deal with this coordination is the use of Interaction Protocols (IP). In order to guarantee an efficient use of IP, one needs to adapt them. In this paper, the authors propose the conjointly use of version and context concepts to model the IP versions and their contexts within a coherent conceptual framework, called MDA. Following this practice, they first propose the contextualized versioned IP meta model. Second, they propose an extension of Agent UML sequence diagram meta-model in order to specify graphically the contextualized versioned IP. Third, they provide an Interaction Protocols Adaptation and Management System to support the life cycle of IP from modeling to performing. Finally, they illustrate their solution through a well-known crisis scenario called “Air Crash Management Process”.