Advanced IT support of crisis relief missions

Peter Sapaty, PhD; Masanori Sugisaka, PhD; Robert Finkelstein, PhD; Jose Delgado-Frias, PhD; Nikolay Mirenkov, PhD

doi:10.5055/jem.2006.0040

Authors

Peter Sapaty, PhD
Masanori Sugisaka, PhD
Robert Finkelstein, PhD
Jose Delgado-Frias, PhD
Nikolay Mirenkov, PhD

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.5055/jem.2006.0040

Keywords:

critical infrastructures, key resources, emergency management, emergent societies, crisis relief, information technologies, distributed control, WAVE-WP model, mobile electronic devices, mobile robotics

Abstract

A novel distributed control ideology and technology will be described for management of advanced crisis relief missions. The approach is based on the installation of a universal “social” module in highly portable electronic devices, like laptops and mobile phones, which can collectively interpret a spatial scenario language, exchanging high-level program code (waves), data, and control with other modules in a parallel fashion. This technology can dynamically integrate any human and technical resources that were scattered postdisaster into an operable, distributed system capable of solving—autonomously—complex survivability, relief, and reconstruction problems.

Author Biographies

Peter Sapaty, PhD

Institute of Mathematical Machines and Systems, National Academy of Sciences, Kiev, Ukraine.

Masanori Sugisaka, PhD

Department of Electrical and Electronic Engineering, Oita University, Oita City, Japan.

Robert Finkelstein, PhD

Robotic Technology Inc., Potomac, Maryland.

Jose Delgado-Frias, PhD

School of Electrical Engineering & Computer Science, Washington State University, Pullman, Washington.

Nikolay Mirenkov, PhD

University of Aizu, Aizu-Wakamatsu, Fukushima-ken, Japan.

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