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the last few years with groups of patients who had to be admitted immediately. Several systems of tracking these patients were evaluated and the most simple and practical appiicable system was a bar-code system using the EAN (European Article Numbering) 128 symbol technique. This system is called the ABC (Automation Barcode and Chaos) system. Using this system, the team that is in charge of command and control has been able to maintain a continuous overview of the situation. Apart from patient identification and tracking, the system also includes in the registration process indicators of urgency and primary diagnoses. This system has been used during several accidents associated with the admission of multiple victims. The highest number of patients admitted using this system was 143 during the evacuation of another hospital because of the threat of a flood.It seems that less errors were made in comparison with manual registration while more information was stored. Pilot studies are being performed to evaluate this method by using it first in a prehospital environment.The ABC system already has attracted national and international attention. In principle, bar-codes can be used for regular care, replacing the existing hospital punch cards. In the Emergency Hospital, the system already has proven its value. Key Words: automatic data processing; bar-codes; disaster management and planning; patient registration; triage systems The Department of Multiple and Combined Trauma contains 75 beds in a city of 1.5 million population and has been functioning for five years. The team includes: 33 general surgeons, 2 orthopedic surgeons, and one neurosurgeon on-call 24 hours per day. The examination period which parallels the beginning of liquidation of severe disturbances of the cardiovascular system lasts 30 minutes. Examination includes: pleural puncture and drainage, peritoneal lavage, laparoscopy, ultrasound examination, echoencephalography, CT-scanning, X-ray and laboratory examinations. Videolaparscopy and videothoracoscopy are used widely in cases of superficial ruptures of abdominal solid organs, for stopping of hemorrhage from injured intercostal vessels, for sewing lung ruptures, and for liquification of curdled haemothorax, etc. There were 12,242 operations performed in the Department of Multiple and Combined Trauma during the five years. There were 6,393 patients with polytrauma treated, of which 49.8% were severe cases. The mortality rate decreased progressively from 37.2% in 1991 to 26.5% in 1996, due to the improvement of the organization of medical aid and the use of modern equipment. This presentation describes an organizational model of an information center developed by the Social Work Department of Tel Aviv Sourasky Medical Center based on our experience with mass disasters. The Information Center is designed to provide information upon the arrival of mass casualties at the hospital following terrorist attacks or other catastrophes. The Information Center is comprised of a number of inter-related units with...

The Scientific and Educational Center "Engineering of the Future", created on the basis of the Institute of Regional Development of the Samara Region, has formed a number of important sectoral and subject committees, in which it is planned to develop breakthrough technologies in high-tech industries. The Committee on Artificial Intelligence, organized within the framework of the SEC "Engineering of the Future", forms its development strategy. The article outlines the vision for the prospects of such a strategy of the project team, consisting of specialists from universities, academia, design organizations, commercial companies and startups. The key in the proposed strategy is emergent artificial intelligence - it is a spontaneously arising, under the influence of external events or from internal causes or motives, a chain of coordinated state changes by agents who find a solution to a new problem or increase the value of an existing solution. The authors believe that the construction of emergent artificial intelligence is based on multi-agent technologies and ontologies of subject areas. The article formulates the main tasks of the Committee for the coming years and presents a technological project. The project includes the creation of mass production of intelligent resource management systems, personalized by creating digital twins of enterprise management processes, knowledge bases and multi-agent technologies. The essence of the proposed project, reflecting the important priorities of industrial partners, is to create a line of intelligent products and services for all stages of the life cycle of complex high-tech products and build a "factory" of such systems in the form of an open instrumental platform that will allow these enterprises to reduce dependence on the solution provider and on their own develop and modernize such systems. The principles of the Committee's work were proposed, its first potential projects and planned cooperation on these projects to achieve the first practical results were considered.