Using Agent Coordination Techniques to Support Rescue Operations in Urban Disaster Environments
Alan D. Barroso, Felipe de C. Santana, Victor Lassance, Luis G. Nardin, Anarosa A. F. Brandão, Jaime Simão Sichman · 2013
This extended abstract describes a task allocation and coordination policy that aims to maximize the efficiency of teams when they are rescuing the victims and protecting the city’s heritage in the case of an urban disaster. Our approach considers the existence of local and global information that could help this coordination. Supposing that communication is limited and unreliable, we also present a comparison of those coordination techniques, aiming to improve the task allocation process. This abstract comprises our motivation, the main goal and the key conceptual aspects of the research, as well as the development steps and specification of the whole project.