ModelOps for enhanced decision-making and governance in emergency control rooms

AbstractFor mission critical (MC) applications such as bushfire emergency management systems (EMS), understanding the current situation as a disaster unfolds is critical to saving lives, infrastructure and the environment. Incident control-room operators manage complex information and systems, especially with the emergence of Big Data. They are increasingly making decisions supported by artificial intelligence (AI) and machine learning (ML) tools for data analysis, prediction and decision-making. As the volume, speed and complexity of information increases due to more frequent fire events, greater availability of myriad IoT sensors, smart devices, satellite data and burgeoning use of social media, the advances in AI and ML that help to manage Big Data and support decision-making are increasingly perceived as “Black Box”. This paper aims to scope the requirements for bushfire EMS to improve Big Data management and governance of AI/ML. An analysis of ModelOps technology, used increasingly in the commercial sector, is undertaken to determine what components might be fit-for-purpose. The result is a novel set of ModelOps features, EMS requirements and an EMS-ModelOps framework that resolves more than 75% of issues whilst being sufficiently generic to apply to other types of mission-critical applications.