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During disasters people start using social media as a platform to share and disseminate real-time disaster information to wider audiences. In order to understand the type of information that is being shared during disasters and how communities are using the technologies to respond to the disasters, we analyze two-different case studies on natural disasters using Twitter as a platform for gathering...
Dramatic increases in forest fires in Europe as well as worldwide can be observed. Therefore, technical developments to support large scale forest firefighting strategies and management solutions are an international issue in the quest to protect human lives and resources as well as to reduce the negative environmental impact. This article describes an airborne based concept to enable an efficient...
High population growth, urbanization, and global climate change drive up the frequency of disasters, causing grave losses of people's lives and property worldwide. Additionally, globalization, technological development, and the changing roles of individuals in society will require entirely new approaches, tools, and capabilities to help inform decision making under uncertain conditions. However, the...
Disastrous events are cordially involved with the momentum of nature. As such mishaps have been showing off own mastery, situations have gone beyond the control of human resistive mechanisms far ago. Fortunately, several technologies are in service to gain affirmative knowledge and analysis of a disaster’s occurrence. Recently, Internet of Things (IoT) paradigm has opened a promising door toward catering...
The recent emergence of ubiquitous smart communication devices accelerate people to post the current trending topics in real time as micro blogs, tweets, posts and multimedia content on social media sites along with geographical location tags (geo-tags). Specifically, during recent floods in Tamilnadu 2015, the early warnings about flooded areas emerged to get posted in popular social media with geo-parsed...
Cloud computing and big data analysis are gaining lots of interest across a range of applications including disaster management. These two technologies together provide the capability of real-time data analysis not only to detect emergencies in disaster areas, but also to rescue the affected people. This paper presents a framework that supports emergency event detection and alert generation by analyzing...
Taiwan High Speed Rail Corporation (THSRC) operates in the western part of Taiwan where 90% of Taiwanese population lives. With the unique geographical location, travel characteristics and living environment, Taiwan encounters various types of natural hazards, such as earthquakes, typhoons, floods and landslides. Hence, it is critical for THSRC to ensure its ability and efficiency in emergency management...
The purpose of this study is to provide an understanding of how the Bangkok Metropolitan Administration (BMA) in Thailand has adopted Twitter to communicate with residents in its approach to flood management. Specifically, we examine 3,453 BMA tweet messages in terms of quantity, tweet content, reactions and engagement. Results indicate that BMA actively provides information of various types that...
In times of a crisis, disasters or extreme events, affected people use social media solutions to share information about the situation. Hence, the use of this information for supporting humanitarian operations is becoming a valuable source to develop a real time understanding about the situation even before they arrive at the ground. From a scholarly perspective, the use of social media management...
This paper outlines a framework for an info-symbiotic modelling system using cyber-physical sensors to assist in decision-making. Using a dynamic data-driven simulation approach, this system can help with the identification of target areas and resource allocation in emergency situations. Using different natural disasters as exemplars, we will show how cyber-physical sensors can enhance ground level...
Disaster response actors and decision makers need to perform several tasks and decisions in a short time. Handling such tasks requires access to sufficient, relevant and up-to-date datasets. Some of these datasets are static such as road network infrastructure and map of buildings. While several other kind of required information are dynamic and change during the occurrence of disaster. Such information...
Disasters are sudden and calamitous events that can cause severe and pervasive negative impacts on society and huge human losses. Governments and humanitarian organizations have been putting tremendous efforts to avoid and reduce the negative consequences due to disasters. In recent years, information technology and big data have played an important role in disaster management. While there has been...
The fundamental goal of education and training is to provide capabilities that can help humans improve performance and accelerate decision-making. Advances in mobile computing (e.g., sensor technology, context aware computing, and cloud computing) allow for the design of systems that goes beyond the traditional methods of simulation training to support adaptive learning. The focus of this paper will...
Medical evacuation is one of the most important modules in the emergency plans activated during disaster situations. It aims at evacuating victims to the most appropriate health-care facilities. Evacuation plans were for a long time performed approximatively and passively rather than optimally and proactively between the disposal site and the targeted hospital and they often lacked visibility on the...
There is an emerging focus on real-time data stream analysis on mobile devices. A wide range of data stream processing applications are targeted to run on mobile handheld devices with limited computational capabilities such as patient monitoring, driver monitoring, providing real-time analysis and visualization for emergency and disaster management, real-time optimization for courier pick-up and delivery...
The following topics are dealt with: distributed simulation; real time applications; disaster management; performance and interest management; virtual reality; interoperability; composibility; and high level architecture.
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