MOBIDIS: A Pervasive Architecture for Emergency Management

Current mobile and pervasive technologies (e.g., PDAs, GPRS/UMTS and WiFI connections, etc.) en-able the development of adaptive peer-to-peer software infrastructures for supporting collaborative work of hu-man operators in emergency/disaster scenarios. In this paper, we present a novel architecture, named MOBIDIS (Mobile @ DIS), currently under develop-ment in the context of an IST research project, in which operators, equipped with hand-held devices, are coordi-nated by a workflow management system able to adap-tively change the process schema in order to cope with anomalies. Some preliminary experimental results are also presented. 1