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Using multiagent teams to improve the training of incident commanders

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Nathan Schurr,

Pratik Patil,

Fred Pighin,

Milind TambeAuthors Info & Claims

AAMAS '06: Proceedings of the fifth international joint conference on Autonomous agents and multiagent systems

Pages 1490 - 1497

https://doi.org/10.1145/1160633.1160924

Published: 08 May 2006 Publication History

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The DEFACTO system is a multiagent based tool for training incident commanders for large scale disasters. In this paper, we highlight some of the lessons that we have learned from our interaction with the Los Angeles Fire Department (LAFD) and how they have affected the way that we continued the design of our training system. These lessons were gleaned from LAFD feedback and initial training exercises and they include: system design, visualization, improving trainee situational awareness, adjusting training level of difficulty and situation scale. We have taken these lessons and used them to improve the DEFACTO system's training capabilities. We have conducted initial training exercises to illustrate the utility of the system in terms of providing useful feedback to the trainee.

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Using multiagent teams to improve the training of incident commanders
1. Applied computing
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  1. Artificial intelligence
    1. Distributed artificial intelligence
      1. Multi-agent systems

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AAMAS '06: Proceedings of the fifth international joint conference on Autonomous agents and multiagent systems

May 2006

1631 pages

ISBN:1595933034

DOI:10.1145/1160633

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Hideyuki Nakashima
Future University - Hakodate, Japan
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University of Michigan
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Technical University Munich, Germany
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Peter Stone
The University of Texas at Austin

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