Multi-agent Approach for Disaster Management

The emergency situations deriving from natural disasters or large scale accidents represent one of the most critical activities in the health care system. We are all concerned about the necessity of a coordinated reaction and organization when there is a large number of people involved and time is a very precious aspect. This paper introduces a multi-agent system for the management of the territorial emergencies in large scale disasters and shows how the agent technology can meet successfully the related requirements. In this paper, we propose a multi-agent framework, called Ubimedic2, able to coordinate autonomously the operative units during rescue operations.

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