A multi-agent approach for territorial emergency management

The management of territorial emergencies and disasters has become a real issue in the healthcare system. The recent events such as earthquakes and inundations have brought into attention the need for an improvement of rescue operations in order to limit the lost of human lives. Such scenarios require a distributed, context-aware, reactive and autonomous support. In this paper we present an architectural approach for coordination based on the multi-agent technology. In the following, we will show how agents behaviour well fits to these requirements and how they can be efficiently applied to these problems.