D6.8: Summative Report on the Use of OpenKnowledge Framework in e-Response: Integration and Evaluation Results

This deliverable aims at investigating the capability of the OpenKnowledge framework to support centralised as well as decentralised architectures for information gathering in emergency response management. For this purpose, we developed an agent-based e-Response simulation environment fully integrated with the OpenKnowledge infrastructure and through which existing emergency plans are modelled and simulated. Preliminary results show (1) the overall scalability of the OpenKnowledge kernel to realistic use cases; (2) the capability of the OpenKnowledge framework in supporting the two afore-mentioned architectures and, under ideal assumptions, a comparable performance in both cases.