My Final Year Project
4.An incident information system
In many different field, various incidents occur and the causes of these
incidents have to be determined. Incidents may range from particular types
of accident such as an aircraft accident through to less critical failures such
as the occurrence of a particular type of error in a software systems.
These have much in common:
1. There is some incident that has occurred
2. This has some cause that may often be very complex
3. To determine the cause, evidence has to be gathered
4. There may be different interpretations of the evidence so that different causes may be proposed.
The goal of this project is to build an information system that allows incidents,
causes, evidence and interpretations to be collected, retrieved and managed. It will
include facilities to input incident and evidence information, to review evidence and to
manage different multiple users who are cooperating to come to a conclusion on the
available evidence.
Degree of difficulty: A Suggested platform: UNIX or PC Suggested languages and tools: Any
As I am still completing the project, this page is still under construction but there
should be more information available in due course.
This report describes a final year project to design and implement an Incident Management
System. Incident Management is an important area because it aids in the organisation and
understanding of vast quantities of information relevant to a specific incident.
An example of an incident is an aeroplane crash where the thousands of pieces of
information need to be ordered so that they may be easily identified and efficiently used.
The aim of this project is to develop a system to allow relationships to be drawn between
hypothesis and evidence.
Example Questionnaire - this is an example questionnaire
that was used during evaluation. The results will also be on the web shortly.
Example query file - this is an example of the query files used
during the searches.
Report - this is a copy of the report for the Incident Management System.
Links to reference pages
