Supporting Dynamicity in Emergency Response Applications

Authors

  • Ricard Fogues Departament de Sistemes Informàtics i Computació, Universitat Politècnica de València, Valencia
  • Jose M. Such School of Computing and Communications, Lancaster University, Lancaster
  • Juan M. Alberola Departament de Sistemes Informàtics i Computació, Universitat Politècnica de València, Valencia
  • Agustin Espinosa Departament de Sistemes Informàtics i Computació, Universitat Politècnica de València, Valencia
  • Ana Garcia-Fornes Departament de Sistemes Informàtics i Computació, Universitat Politècnica de València, Valencia

Keywords:

Dynamic agent interactions, interaction protocols, emergency management systems, multiagent systems

Abstract

Multiagent Systems are a promising paradigm for software development. It is feasible to model such systems with many components where each one can solve a specific problem. This division of responsibilities allows multiagent systems to work in dynamically changing environments. An example of an environment that is very changeable is related with emergencies management. Emergency management systems depend on the cooperation of all their components due to their specialization. In order to obtain this cooperation, the components need to interact with each other and adapt their interactions depending on their purpose and the system components they are interacting with. Also, new components may arrive on the scene, which must be informed about the interaction policies that original components are using. Although Multiagent Systems are suited to managing scenarios of this kind, their effectiveness depends on their capacity to dynamically modify and adapt the protocols that control the interactions among agents in the system. In this paper, an infrastructure to support dynamically changing interaction protocols is presented.

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Fogues, R., Such, J. M., Alberola, J. M., Espinosa, A., & Garcia-Fornes, A. (2015). Supporting Dynamicity in Emergency Response Applications. Computing and Informatics, 33(6), 1288–1311. Retrieved from http://147.213.75.17/ojs/index.php/cai/article/view/2815

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