Framework for rapid deployment of rule-based situation management systems

We describe our novel approach towards supporting situation management with a domain-specific instantiation of a general purpose framework in support of domain surveillance and control. The framework architecture integrates widely used implementations of IP packet networking and cellular telephony protocols, combined with rapidly emerging base of publicly available Internet group-enabled applications for collaboration and multimedia data management. A rule-based approach keeps this integration flexible for domain specific instantiations of these applications and global availability of mobile phones. Besides presenting the fundamental requirements, the key design concepts and the overall architectural design for a domain independent kernel, we also describe a case example for healthcare related monitoring and control. Screen mockups and prototypical design details are used to better illustrate the practicality of our approach and effectiveness of our design.