In this paper we propose a model for coordinating teams of computational agents. This model is especially aimed for coordinating agents performing in a simulated environment of forest firefighting, although it may be used in other domains. We will start by introducing the Pyrosim platform where we are carrying out our experiments. Pyrosim is a tool developed in our laboratory that simulates a f...

BACKGROUND This article aims at testing of psychometric characteristics of the Beck Depression Inventory (BDI) and the Defense Style Questionnaire - 40 (DSQ-40) in a sample of Croatian professional fire-fighters, so as to justify their use in Occupational Health. A pioneer effort to interrelate mental states and psychological job demands, ranked using the WAI questionnaire, was made as well. ...

Endemic wild polioviruses have been eliminated from most of the world, and the number of human paralytic cases has been reduced by .99%, from an estimated annual incidence of .500,000 cases to ,2000 cases [1–3]. Circulating wild polioviruses remain endemic in only 2 major locations, Nigeria and a zone extending from northern India west to Pakistan and Afghanistan [1–3]. Furthermore, wild-type 2...

This study was motivated by the need to develop a micro-geographic information system (GIS) to represent and analyze 3D spatial data for fire-fighting simulations. The proposed method involved exploration of a 3D geometric network model (GNM)-based, building information model (BIM)-supported framework for fire-fighting simulation. The operations of ladder trucks were simulated in a virtual 3D e...

Ever since the Industrial revolution, more and factories industries are being set up around world. Be it manufacturing or iron-steel industry. There many places in factories, industries, plants, oil fields, etc. where there is a risk of fire but they unmanned. may be fires remote like, small gaps narrow pipes humans can’t reach. The solution to these problems our smart firefighting robot which ...

This paper reviews the possibilities of UAV applications to forest-fire fighting in the typical before-during-after scheme. Before-fire they can be used for monitoring of the vegetation and the estimation of hydric stress and risk index. UAVs can also be applied for forest-fire detection, confirmation, localisation and monitoring. Finally, the UAVs are also useful for the evaluation of the fire...