Situation aware intelligent reasoning during disaster situation in smart cities

Kiran Saleem; Salwa Muhammad Akhtar; Makia Nazir; Ahmad S Almadhor; Yousaf Bin Zikria; Rana Zeeshan Ahmad; Sung Won Kim

doi:10.3389/fpsyg.2022.970789

Situation aware intelligent reasoning during disaster situation in smart cities

Front Psychol. 2022 Aug 8:13:970789. doi: 10.3389/fpsyg.2022.970789. eCollection 2022.

Authors

Kiran Saleem¹, Salwa Muhammad Akhtar¹, Makia Nazir¹, Ahmad S Almadhor², Yousaf Bin Zikria³, Rana Zeeshan Ahmad⁴, Sung Won Kim³

Affiliations

¹ Department of Software Engineering, University of Lahore, Lahore, Pakistan.
² College of Computer and Information Sciences, Jouf University, Sakakah, Saudi Arabia.
³ Department of Information and Communication Engineering, Yeungnam University, Gyeongsan, South Korea.
⁴ Information Technology Department, University of Sialkot, Sialkot, Pakistan.

Abstract

Investigating prior methodologies, it has come to our knowledge that in smart cities, a disaster management system needs an autonomous reasoning mechanism to efficiently enhance the situation awareness of disaster sites and reduce its after-effects. Disasters are unavoidable events that occur at anytime and anywhere. Timely response to hazardous situations can save countless lives. Therefore, this paper introduces a multi-agent system (MAS) with a situation-awareness method utilizing NB-IoT, cyan industrial Internet of things (IIOT), and edge intelligence to have efficient energy, optimistic planning, range flexibility, and handle the situation promptly. We introduce the belief-desire-intention (BDI) reasoning mechanism in a MAS to enhance the ability to have disaster information when an event occurs and perform an intelligent reasoning mechanism to act efficiently in a dynamic environment. Moreover, we illustrate the framework using a case study to determine the working of the proposed system. We develop ontology and a prototype model to demonstrate the scalability of our proposed system.

Keywords: BDI mechanism; disaster management system; edge intelligence; intelligent decision support system; multi-agent system; situation-awareness; smart cities.