Pervasive information infrastructures for industrial informatics - an application to emergency response management

This work proves the technical feasibility of creating pervasive computing infrastructures using multi-agent systems which interact with heterogeneous non-agent systems. Our main contribution is the development of a pervasive environment which enhances the interaction between heterogeneous systems by using standardized protocols for communications between software agents bridging the non-agent systems within the pervasive framework. Using the proposed framework developers would focus only on solving the problem without having to worry about integration, deployment, data formatting and communication between the different modules of their applications. Users would have access to all the relevant application data without having to switch between applications from different developers - the framework provides them with an application capable of accessing any piece of information within the domain. In this work, the framework is used to deploy an emergency response application. This does not prevent using it in any other domain.