An application view of COORDINATORS coordination managers for first responders
Thomas Wagner, John Phelps, Valerie Guralnik, Ryan VanRiper · 2004
COORDINATORs are coordination managers for fielded first responders. Each first response team is paired with a CO-ORDINATOR coordination manager which is running on a mobile computing device. COORDINATORs provide deci-sion support to first response teams by reasoning about who should be doing what, when, with what resource, in support of which other team, and so forth. COORDINATORs respond to the dynamics of the environment by (re)coordinating to determine the right course of action for the current circum-stances. COORDINATORs have been implemented using wireless PDAs and proprietary first responder location track-ing technologies. This paper describes COORDINATORs, the motivation for them, the underlying agent architecture, implementation issues, and first response exercises.