Using multi-agent systems to solve food distribution problem in disaster area

Abstract

Disasters have been causing huge damages to infrastructure as well as human life from a long time. One of the key problems faced when disaster hits an area is efficient distribution of resources such as medicine, food, water etc. In this paper, we propose a solution particularly for distribution of food. We have proposed a solution in which a big disaster region is divided into smaller areas (regions) and multi-agent system are used to deliver food in these regions. Agents use shortest path algorithms and coordination to deliver food within their particular region efficiently. In the experiment section, we have performed different experiments to check how the proposed solution performs when one of the parameter is changed. Using multi-agents can be very useful approach for distribution problems especially in disaster region.