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Fig. 9. Electrnic Triage Tag based on Mobile Agents
field of medicine, could provide services associated with his specialty. These may be
viewed by the agents and may make requests to be booked by assigning such a victim
to a particular specialist. A petition will not always be accepted and may be denied,
e.g., because the resource is busy. There is also the option for example of disabling the
service, when staff are returning to the control centre or the service has already been
reserved by another mobile agent.
Services not only can be unitary, meaning that only pertain to or have a single staff,
but there may be services offered by a group. For instance, one can define emergency
rescue teams, dedicated to rescuing victims in dangerous floodings or similar. In this
case would have the special feature of the service that the entity would be distributed
and virtual. This service could be sued by a mobile agent in case that before launching
it the staff indicate that a rescue operation to retrieve the victim is required.
5.4.4 Control Center
The control center is responsible of receiving all mobile agents coming from Zone 0.
This system may be distributed, i.e., it may comprise more than one server that will be
able to exchange data, since they are connected to each other. The control center have a
wireless network access point to allow the communication with the arriving PDAs.
Furthermore, the control center keep all the information gathered by the mobile
agents. It may know the position of the victims, their status, and whether there are
special needs for each one. This eases to plan routes for the collection of the vic-
tims by placing higher priority on those that have been selected for such. There may