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Natural disasters cause devastation in the society due to unpredictable nature. Whether damage is minor or severe, emergency support should be provided within time. Multi-agent systems have been proposed to efficiently cope with emergency situations. Lot of work has been done on maturing core functionality of these systems but little attention has been given to their user interface. The world is moving towards an era where humans and machines work together to complete complex tasks. Management of such emergent situations is improved by combining superior human intelligence with efficiency of multi-agent systems. Our goal is to design and develop agents based interface that facilitates humans not only in operating the system but also in resource mobilization like ambulances, fire brigade, etc. to reduce life and property loss. This enhancement improves system adaptability and speeds up the relief operation by saving time of human-agent consumed in dealing with complex computer interface.
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Sharmeen, Z., Martinez-Enriquez, A.M., Aslam, M., Syed, A.Z., Waheed, T. (2014). Multi Agent System Based Interface for Natural Disaster. In: Ślȩzak, D., Schaefer, G., Vuong, S.T., Kim, YS. (eds) Active Media Technology. AMT 2014. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 8610. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-09912-5_25
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