Knowledge Representation and Share in Emergency-Driven Virtual Organization

With acceleration of urbanization process and constant expansion of city area in China, cities in China must respond to various emergencies in time and effective to meet urban residents demanded for public security. Emergency-driven Virtual organizations (EDVO) are of a resources-management mechanism, which can integrate the outer resources and carry out the rapid response to emergency. To guarantee the success of EDVO, knowledge representation and sharation among the participating organizations becomes a critical problem. At present, the representation of knowledge varies in different organizations, which makes sharing knowledge difficult. In order to solve this problem, a knowledge management and share framework oriented to EDVO is proposed in this paper and a corresponding support system named EDVOKshare is designed and developed. It is shown in practice that the system is able to solve the problem of knowledge sharing among enterprises in certain EDVO and improves cooperation among those enterprises.