
## 5.0 Conclusion

Artificial intelligence techniques offer potentially powerful tools for the development of crisis response and management systems. The technologies of robotics, ontology and semantic web, and multi-agent systems can be useful to solve the problems of crisis response. This paper discusses the role of artificial intelligence technologies in crisis response. Robotics can be useful in urban search and rescue to bypass challenges faced by rescue workers and to expedite the search operations. Ontologies concepts and semantic web offers as many advantages in solving systems integration and interoperability problems. Ontologies are also used to collect, integrate and reason on heterogeneous information sources. Multi-agent systems features and methodologies is the core of crisis response systems. Crisis response systems take advantage of coordination and planning capabilities of multi-agent systems to handle response teams' coordination and interaction problems. 

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