Multi-Agent Crisis Response systems - Design Requirements and Analysis of Current Systems

Abstract

Crisis response is a critical area of research, with encouraging progress in the past view yeas. The aim of the research is to contribute to building future crisis environment where software agents, robots, responders, crisis managers, and crisis organizations interact to provide advice, protection and aid. This paper discusses the crisis response domain requirements, and provides analysis of five crisis response systems namely: DrillSim [2], DEFACTO [15], ALADDIN [1], RoboCup Rescue [18], and FireGrid [3]. Analysis of systems includes systems architecture and methodology. In addition, we identified features and limitations of systems based on crisis response domain requirements.