Department of Computer and Information Engineering, Nippon Institute of Technology, Japan

Biography: Dr. Yasushi Kambayashi is an associate professor in the Department of Computer and Information Engineering from the Nippon Institute of Technology. He worked at Mitsubishi Research Institute as a staff researcher before joining the Institute. His research interests include theory of computation, theory and practice of programming languages, and political science. He received his PhD in Engineering from the University of Toledo, his MS in Computer Science from the University of Washington, and his BA in Law from Keio University. He is a Fellow of IARIA, and a committee member of INSTICC.

Speech Title: An Evacuation Support System Using Multi-Agent System Based on Ad Hoc Communications

Abstract: We propose a multi-agent base evacuation support system based on ad-hoc communication systems. When a disaster occurs, we anticipate that the current popular wireless communication based on the Internet may not be very reliable. In order to accommodate such a problem, our proposed system employs multiple mobile agents and static agents on smartphones that use a mobile ad hoc network (MANET). The proposed system collects information by mobile agents as well as diffuses information by mobile agents so that the system provides an optimal evacuation route for each user in a dynamically changing disaster environment. In simulations, our system successfully guides evacuation user to safe area. The system also evaluate the evacuation routes periodically by using ant colony optimization (ACO) method.