Designing and Implementing Intelligent Agents for e-Health

Recent large-scale disasters and territorial emergencies, such as the Japan seaquake and Australian inundation, have brought to the attention the efficiency of the rescue operation. Such scenarios are unpredictable and require a prompt and coordinated reaction from the authorities. This paper presents an architectural approach for coordination and cooperation based on the Multi-Agent technology. In the following, we will show how agents are able to offer a distributed, context-aware, reactive and autonomous support. We propose a Multi-Agent framework that enables the implementation of Multi-Agent Systems (MAS) for emergency scenarios management.