The creation and use of task-centric virtual organisations involving people, government and non-governmental organisations, automated systems, grid and web services working alongside intelligent robotic, vehicle, building and environmental systems to respond to very dynamic events on scales from local to global.

Material related to work on a Grand Challenge for Computer Science Research that for help, recsue and disaster relief.

• UK Grand Challenges Web Site
  • Austin Tate, Personal Help Device and Help Grid/Safety.Net 15-Oct-2002 [MS Word format (46KB), PDF format (90KB)]

• DARPA IPTO Grand Challenges for Cognitive Systems, Study 2004-5
  • Austin Tate, e-Response: Pervasive assistance and emergency response on all levels: personal, family, organization, local, regional, national and international, 10-Dec-2004 [MS Word format (53KB), PDF format (110KB)]

• Natural Disasters - can we save more lives?
  Seminar and Discussion on The Indian Ocean Tsunami: causes, effects and responses at the Royal Museum of Scotland, 3rd February 2005
  • Talk by Austin Tate. e-Response: Future Global Emergence Response [Abstract] [PowerPoint Presentation (18MB)] [PDF Presentation (14MB)] [Long Version PowerPoint (22MB)]
  • Vision for a Multi-level Emergency Response Framework, University of Edinburgh (ed. Austin Tate). Input to UK Office of Science and Technology (OST) Committee, January 2005. [ MS Word Doc ] [ PDF ]

• The Helpful Environment - geographically dispersed intelligent agents that collaborate.
  Inaugural session speaker for Edinburgh Earth Observatory (EEO) Seminar Series in GIS, Remote Sensing and GeoInformatics on 3rd February 2006.
  • Talk by Austin Tate. [Abstract] [PowerPoint Presentation (45MB)] [PDF Presentation (10MB)]

Edinburgh I-Rescue Work

• I-Rescue Project Web Site
• e-Response Project Web Site
• I-X Technology
• AIAI Planning Technology

Other Links

• CRA Conference on "Grand Research Challenges" in Computer Science and Engineering Workshop, June 23-26, 2002, Airlie House, Warrenton, Virginia. Includes 911.net or Safety.net Grand Challenge Proposal.
  • USA Safety.Net Ubiquitous Computing Proposal [PDF format 21KB]
• Edinburgh Earth Observatory (EEO) Seminar Series in GIS, Remote Sensing and GeoInformatics