Multi-Agent Based Disaster Management System: A Review

Swati Basak, Neelam Modanwal, Bireshwar Dass Mazumdar · 2011

Disasters, like earthquakes, floods, etc. can cause large number of deaths, injured and homeless. Appropriate responses are needed in the form of allocating resources to handle the effects of disasters. Multi-agent disaster system has been extensively used in the different tasks of decentralized disaster problem solving such as communication among agents, collective decision making, cooperation, collaborative planning in large scale that deals with uncertainty and conflicting information during disaster management . In this paper, we analyze the current disaster management and response systems, taking in consideration of domain requirements, agent-based design methodology and systems’ comparative view.

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