{"id":330,"date":"2015-05-08T18:26:49","date_gmt":"2015-05-08T17:26:49","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.cs.nott.ac.uk\/~jef\/?p=330"},"modified":"2015-05-08T18:34:24","modified_gmt":"2015-05-08T17:34:24","slug":"best-paper-award-at-aamas-15-for-disaster-management-system-paper","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/people.cs.nott.ac.uk\/pszjf1\/?p=330","title":{"rendered":"Best Paper Award at AAMAS &#8217;15 for Disaster Management System Paper"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Our paper has been awarded the Best Paper Award of the Innovative Applications track at AAMAS.<\/p>\n<p>Download the PDF\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/eprints.soton.ac.uk\/374070\/\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<h5>Abstract<\/h5>\n<p>This paper proposes a novel disaster management system called HAC-ER that addresses some of the challenges faced by emer- gency responders by enabling humans and agents, using state-of- the-art algorithms, to collaboratively plan and carry out tasks in teams referred to as human-agent collectives. In particular, HAC- ER utilises crowdsourcing combined with machine learning to ex- tract situational awareness information from large streams of re- ports posted by members of the public and trusted organisations. We then show how this information can inform human-agent teams in coordinating multi-UAV deployments as well as task planning for responders on the ground. Finally, HAC-ER incorporates a tool for tracking and analysing the provenance of information shared across the entire system. In summary, this paper describes a pro- totype system, validated by real-world emergency responders, that combines several state-of-the-art techniques for integrating humans and agents, and illustrates, for the first time, how such an approach can enable more effective disaster response operations.<\/p>\n<h5>Reference<\/h5>\n<p>Sarvapali Ramchurn, Edwin Simpson, Joel Fischer, Trung Dong Huynh, Yuki Ikuno, Steven Reece, Wenchao Jiang, Feng Wu, Jack Flann, SJ Roberts, Luc Moreau, T Rodden, NR Jennings (2015). <a href=\"http:\/\/eprints.soton.ac.uk\/374070\/\">HAC-ER: A disaster response system based on human-agent collectives<\/a>. To appear in: 4th International Conference on Autonomous Agents and Multi-Agent Systems, Istanbul, TR, 04 \u2013 08 May 2015.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Our paper has been awarded the Best Paper Award of the Innovative Applications track at AAMAS. Download the PDF\u00a0here.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8,3,5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-330","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-disaster-response","category-paper","category-research"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/people.cs.nott.ac.uk\/pszjf1\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/330","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/people.cs.nott.ac.uk\/pszjf1\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/people.cs.nott.ac.uk\/pszjf1\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/people.cs.nott.ac.uk\/pszjf1\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/people.cs.nott.ac.uk\/pszjf1\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=330"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/people.cs.nott.ac.uk\/pszjf1\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/330\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":336,"href":"https:\/\/people.cs.nott.ac.uk\/pszjf1\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/330\/revisions\/336"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/people.cs.nott.ac.uk\/pszjf1\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=330"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/people.cs.nott.ac.uk\/pszjf1\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=330"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/people.cs.nott.ac.uk\/pszjf1\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=330"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}