Contributions – expectations of UrbanFlood partners
May 2010
Valeria Krzhizhanovskaya, working
for University of Amsterdam (and part-time with the University
of St. Petersburg in Russia)
Expectations:
we are going to advance the science in simulation and modeling of the complex phenomena
physics in earthen dikes to protect cities; to suggest better ways to build flood
defense systems.
Contribution:
The UvA (University
of Amsterdam) will develop
some models, some simulation tools to assist in decision making for the
advanced decision support systems based on the TNO multi touch tables. Of
course we’ll want to make it really accessible, interactive and intuitive for
the public. And we also contribute to the advanced scientific, interactive visualization
which is important to actually show the results, to show the output of the decisions
support systems.
from
left to right: Robert Belleman, Erik Langius, Robert Meijer and Valeria
Krzhizhanovskaya
from
left to right: Ilya Mokhov, Artem Ozhigin, Jeroen Broekhuijsen, Nico Pals and
Ludolph Wentholt
Artem Ozhigin, working for Siemens in Russia
Artem Ozhigin works for
Siemens Corporate Technology in St.-Petersburg. Artem: “Our group within
Corporate Technology is primarily focused on dependable and
highly-critical systems. I consider our competence as useful in the development
of a universal and flexible model for components of the UrbanFlood early
warning system. The challenge is to find a balance of sometimes contradictory
requirements. As a result we expect to have specifications which allows for
easy deployment and customization of components to their application in any
kind of EWS anticipated in the project.”
Marian Bubak, working for Cyfronet in Poland
Contribution:
I work in Krakow on distributed systems and the
development of collaborating environments. So our participation in this project
is the continuation of our scientific interest and
challenges. What we would like to do (within
UrbanFlood) is to develop a system which will be operating real time
(to some extent). Because it will be necessary to process the data from sensors
in real time, we would like to extend our interest towards
complex event processing and some of the applications which will contribute to
the EWS. Lateral computations and the flow of decisions and data is also
complex so we would like to use technologies which are now available for up
scaling of processes.
Finally
I expect we would develop something which can be the start system (of
UrbanFlood) enabling plug-in of different applications and be able to
multiply it for many dikes. It can be scalable; you can form something that can
serve on a small scale, can serve on a regional scale or larger.