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Anytime Cognition: An information agent for emergency response

Meneguzzi, Felipe and Oh, Jean and Chakraborty, Nilanjan and Sycara, Katia and Mehrotra, Siddarth and Lewis, Michael (2011) Anytime Cognition: An information agent for emergency response. In: The Fifth Annual Conference of the International Technology Alliance.

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Abstract

Planning under pressure in time-constrained environments while relying on uncertain information is a challenging task. This is particularly true for planning the response during an ongoing disaster in a urban area, be that a natural one, or a deliberate attack on the civilian population. As the various activities pertaining to the emergency response need to be coordinated in response to multiple reports from the disaster site, a user finds itself cognitively overloaded. To address this issue, we designed the Anytime Cognition (ANTICO) concept to assist human users working in time-constrained environments by maintaining a manageable level of cognitive workload over time. Based on the ANTICO concept, we develop an agent framework for proactively managing a user’s changing information requirements by integrating information management techniques with probabilistic plan recognition. In this paper, we describe a prototype emergency response application in the context of a subset of the attacks devised by the American Department of Homeland Security.

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Item Type: Conference or Workshop Item (Paper)
Status: Published
Creators/Authors:
CreatorsEmailPitt UsernameORCID
Meneguzzi, Felipe
Oh, Jean
Chakraborty, Nilanjan
Sycara, Katia
Mehrotra, Siddarth
Lewis, Michael
Date: 2011
Date Type: Publication
Access Restriction: No restriction; Release the ETD for access worldwide immediately.
Event Title: The Fifth Annual Conference of the International Technology Alliance
Event Type: Conference
Institution: University of Pittsburgh
Refereed: Yes
Date Deposited: 15 Jun 2012 19:25
Last Modified: 01 Nov 2017 12:55
URI: http://d-scholarship.pitt.edu/id/eprint/12404

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