Multi-Agent approach for Disaster Management

The emergency situations deriving from naturaldisasters or large scale accidents represent one of the mostcritical activities in the health care system.We are all concernedabout the necessity of a coordinated reaction and organizationwhen there is a large number of people involved and time isa very precious aspect. This paper introduces a multi-agentsystem for the management of the territorial emergencies inlarge scale disasters and shows how the agent technology canmeet successfully the related requirements. In this paper wepropose a multi-agent framework, called Ubimedic2, able tocoordinate autonomously the operative units during the rescueoperation.