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Emergent societies: advanced IT support of crisis relief missions

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A novel distributed control ideology and technology is described for the management of advanced crisis relief missions. The approach is based on the installation of a universal “social” module in massively wearable electronic devices, such as laptops and mobile phones, which can collectively interpret a spatial scenario language, exchange high-level program code (waves) and data, and control other modules in parallel. This can dynamically integrate any scattered post-disaster human and technical resources into an operable distributed system capable of solving autonomously complex survivability, relief, and reconstruction problems.

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  1. Institute of Mathematical Machines and Systems, National Academy of Sciences, Glushkova Ave 42, 03187, Kiev, Ukraine

    Peter Sapaty

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

    Mosanori Sugisaka

  3. Robotic Technology Inc., Potomac, MD, USA

    Robert Finkelstein

  4. School of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science, Washington State University, Pullman, WA, USA

    Jose Delgado-Frias

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

    Nikolay Mirenkov

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Correspondence to Peter Sapaty.

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This work was presented in part at the 11th International Symposium on Artificial Life and Robotics, Oita, Japan, January 23–25, 2006

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Sapaty, P., Sugisaka, M., Finkelstein, R. et al. Emergent societies: advanced IT support of crisis relief missions. Artif Life Robotics 11, 116–122 (2007). https://doi.org/10.1007/s10015-006-0412-x

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