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.