I-Rescue: A Coalition Based System to Support Disaster Relief Operations

Abstract

I-Rescue is a research programme that aims to develop knowledge-based tools for disaster relief domains. One important aspect of the I-Rescue development is to highlight the requirements regarding the collaborative activities of planning and execution, considering a hierarchical structure of decision-making and a mixed initiative style of interaction between users and systems. This paper discusses the design and implementation of I-Rescue and its use in a search and rescue domain where joint users, assisted by customised agents, are able to perform complementary tasks.