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ATAL
2008
Springer
13 years 6 months ago
Coordination of first responders under communication and resource constraints
This paper discusses the application of distributed constraint optimization to coordination in disaster management situations under sub-optimal network conditions. It presents an ...
Robert N. Lass, Joseph B. Kopena, Evan Sultanik, D...
ATAL
2004
Springer
13 years 9 months ago
COORDINATORS: Coordination Managers for First Responders
COORDINATORs are coordination managers for fielded first responders. Each first response team is paired with a COORDINATOR coordination manager which is running on a mobile com...
Thomas Wagner, John Phelps, Valerie Guralnik, Ryan...
CORR
2010
Springer
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13 years 4 months ago
Emergency Response Communications and Associated Security Challenges
The natural or man-made disaster demands an efficient communication and coordination among first responders to save life and other community resources. Normally, the traditional c...
Muhammad Ibrahim Channa, Kazi M. Ahmed
ATAL
2006
Springer
13 years 8 months ago
No-commitment branch and bound search for distributed constraint optimization
We present a new polynomial-space algorithm for solving Distributed Constraint Optimization problems (DCOP). The algorithm, called NCBB, is branch and bound search with modificati...
Anton Chechetka, Katia P. Sycara
IAT
2006
IEEE
13 years 10 months ago
A Market-Based Adaptation for Resolving Competing Needs for Scarce Resources
The dynamic nature of many real-world domains (e.g., military, emergency first response and hurricane relief, etc) requires adaptive resource allocation to respond to changes in t...
Rui Wang, Tracy Mullen, Viswanath Avasarala, John ...