DISTRIBUTED EMERGENCY MANAGEMENT WITH SPATIAL SCENARIOS

Peter Sapaty, Robert Finkelstein, Joaquim Filipe

2006

Abstract

A radically new approach will be described for the fully distributed and dynamic management of advanced crisis relief operations and missions. It is based on the installation of a universal “social” module in many existing and massively used data processing and control devices, including (but not limited to) internet hosts, laptops, mobile robots and mobile phones. These modules can collectively interpret a special scenario language while exchanging higher-level program code with accompanying data and control in parallel. This can dynamically integrate any scattered post-disaster human and technical resources into an operable distributed system which, from one side, is effectively supervised externally, and from the other side, is capable of solving complex self-analysis, coordination, survivability, relief, and reconstruction problems autonomously.

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Sapaty P., Finkelstein R. and Filipe J. (2006). DISTRIBUTED EMERGENCY MANAGEMENT WITH SPATIAL SCENARIOS . In Proceedings of the Third International Conference on Informatics in Control, Automation and Robotics - Volume 1: ICINCO, ISBN 978-972-8865-59-7, pages 57-66. DOI: 10.5220/0001221500570066


in Bibtex Style

@conference{icinco06,
author={Peter Sapaty and Robert Finkelstein and Joaquim Filipe},
title={DISTRIBUTED EMERGENCY MANAGEMENT WITH SPATIAL SCENARIOS},
booktitle={Proceedings of the Third International Conference on Informatics in Control, Automation and Robotics - Volume 1: ICINCO,},
year={2006},
pages={57-66},
publisher={SciTePress},
organization={INSTICC},
doi={10.5220/0001221500570066},
isbn={978-972-8865-59-7},
}


in EndNote Style

TY - CONF
JO - Proceedings of the Third International Conference on Informatics in Control, Automation and Robotics - Volume 1: ICINCO,
TI - DISTRIBUTED EMERGENCY MANAGEMENT WITH SPATIAL SCENARIOS
SN - 978-972-8865-59-7
AU - Sapaty P.
AU - Finkelstein R.
AU - Filipe J.
PY - 2006
SP - 57
EP - 66
DO - 10.5220/0001221500570066