Abstract :
The UK terrorist attacks last June, 2007 demonstrated once again the extremists´ preference for hitting multiple targets. This strategy aims to confuse authorities and increase casualties and damages. If a large city becomes the target of multiple attacks, responders will need to scramble to allocate fire trucks, ambulances, and other resources to any number of locations. If ever a problem was in need of an AI-based simulation, this is it. And that´s just what DEFACTO (Demonstrating Effective Flexible Agent Coordination of Teams through Omnipresence) aims to provide.
Keywords :
digital simulation; emergency services; multi-agent systems; AI-based simulation; DEFACTO; UK terrorist attacks; ambulances; fire trucks; multiagent system; Application software; Artificial intelligence; Cities and towns; Feedback; Fires; Large-scale systems; Layout; Personnel; Terrorism; Traffic control; Berkely Parser; DEFACTO; multiagent systems; natural language processing;
