Coordination Issues in an Agent-Based Approach for Territorial Emergence Management

This paper presents a new architectural approach for managing healthcare emergences and large scale disasters using agent-based applications. Such scenarios require a support that must be distributed, context-aware, reactive and autonomous. In the following, we will show how agent´s behaviour best fits to these requirements and how the agent technology can be efficiently applied to problems where the main challenge is coordination and collaboration between components. We propose a FIPA compliant Multi-Agent System based on the BDI and PIM technologies.