Advanced IT support of crisis relief missions
Peter Simon Sapaty, Masanori Sugisaka, Robert Finkelstein, Jose G. Delgado-Frias, Nikolay Mirenkov · Journal of Emergency Management · 2006
A novel distributed control ideology and technology will be described for management of advanced crisis relief missions. The approach is based on the installation of a universal “social” module in highly portable electronic devices, like laptops and mobile phones, which can collectively interpret a spatial scenario language, exchanging high-level program code (waves), data, and control with other modules in a parallel fashion. This technology can dynamically integrate any human and technical resources that were scattered postdisaster into an operable, distributed system capable of solving—autonomously—complex survivability, relief, and reconstruction problems.