Abstract:
This article presents a social approach for disaster management, based on a public portal, so-called Disasters
2.0, which provides facilities for integrating and sharing user-
generated information about disasters. The architecture of Di-
sasters 2.0 is designed following REST principles and integrates
external mashups, such as Google Maps. This architecture has
been integrated with different clients, including a mobile client, a
multiagent system for assisting in the decentralised management
of disasters, and an expert system for automatic asignation of
resources to disasters. As a result, the platform allows seamless
collaboration of humans and intelligent agents, and provides a
novel web2.0 approach for multiagent and disaster management
research and artificial intelligence teaching.