Supporting the Concept of Early Warning Analysis
"Supporting the Concept of Early Warning Analysis" (SCEWA) is a 5 year research project that began in January 2008. It is funded by the Irish Environmental Protection Agency under the DERP grand scheme, which intended "to enable outstanding early career researchers develop into team leaders of international standing and to prove their ability as independent principal investigators".
The necessary institutional support of SCEWA project is provided by the Cork Constraint Computation Centre.
The ultimate goal of the SCEWA project is to:
support organizations and
states agencies in providing early warning services.
Taking Environmental Protection Agencies as a domain of application, early warning services can be used to detect potential problems and accidents at engineering facilities such as water and waste water treatment plants, landfills and incinerators, in order to:
- protect the personnel and the infrastructure in the facilities,
- protect the environment,
- inform and guide the personnel and the public accordingly, in case of "expected" adverse effects.
Given this ultimate goal, our research is focused on the development of methods and tools which are aimed at supporting the analysis, design, and development of early warning systems in engineering facilities and in critical infrastructures whose undisturbed operation is important for maintaining and improving the quality of our everyday life.
