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Intelligent Planning and Collaborative Systemsfor Emergency Response

http://i-x.infohttp://i-rescue.orghttp://e-response.org

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S •More than 20 years of excellence in applied Artificial Intelligence

•World-leading AI planning research and technical team

•World-leading knowledge modelling and representation resources and staff

•O-Plan: Multi-Perspective Planning Architecture and Planning Web Service

•I-X: Issue Handling Planning and Collaboration Architecture

•<I-N-C-A>: Knowledge Elicitation, Encoding, Modelling, Representation, and Management

•I-X commercialisation through Scottish Enterprise Proof-of-Concept Award: IM-PACs

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e-Response Vision

The creation and use of task-centric virtual organisations involving people, government and non-governmental organisations, automated systems, grid and web services working alongside intelligent robotic, vehicle, building and environmental systems to respond to very dynamic events on scales from local to global.

Multi-level emergency response and aid systems Personal, vehicle, home, organisation, district, regional, national,

international Backbone for progressively more comprehensive aid and emergency

response Also used for aid-orientated commercial services Robust, secure, resilient, distributed system of systems Advanced knowledge and collaboration technologies Low cost, pervasive sensors, computing and comms. Changes in building codes, regulations and practices

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e-Response Relevant Technologies

Sensors and Information Gathering• sensor facilities, large-scale sensor grids• human and photographic intelligence gathering• information and knowledge validation and error reduction• semantic web and meta-knowledge• simulation and prediction• data interpretation• identification of "need"

Emergency Response Capabilities and Availability• robust multi-modal communications• matching needs, brokering and "trading" systems• agent technology for enactment, monitoring and control

Hierarchical, distributed, large scale systems• local versus centralized decision making and control• mobile and survivable systems• human and automated adjustable autonomy mixed-initiative decision making• mixed-initiative, multi-agent planning and control• trust, security

Common Operating Methods• shared information and knowledge bases• Shared standards and interlingua• shared human scale self help web sites and collaboration aids• shared standard operating procedures at levels from local to international• standards for signs, warnings, etc.

Public Education• publicity materials• self help aids• public training

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FireGrid Technologies

Maps,Models,

ScenariosSuper-real-time Simulation

Knowledge Systems, Planning & Control

Emergency Responders

Computational Grid

Tens of Thousands of Sensors & Monitors

http://firegrid.org

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I-XMulti-Agency Emergency Response Planning,

Execution, and Task-Oriented Communications

Collaboration and Communication

CommandCentre

CentralAuthorities

IsolatedPersonnel

EmergencyResponders

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Adapted from H. Kitano and  S. Tadokoro, RoboCup Rescue A Grand Challenge

for Multiagent and Intelligent Systems, AI Magazine, Spring, 2001.

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Cycle 200Blocked Roads Roads Buildings

Ambulance Team Fire Brigade Police Force

AmbulanceCentre

FireStation

PoliceOffice

Search and Rescue Command Centre

RoboCup Rescue SimulatorSimulates the Kobe earthquakeSends sensorial information to agents, receiving back action commands

I-X AgentsDivided in three hierarchical decision-making levelsSupport ideas such as activity oriented planning, coordination and knowledge sharing

Interaction I-X to Kobe SimulatorInformation from RCRS to I-X is converted to the <I-N-C-A> format

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More Information

• www.aiai.ed.ac.uk/project/plan/

• www.aiai.ed.ac.uk/project/ix/

• i-rescue.org

• i-x.info

• i-c2.com