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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...
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...
In spite of the advances in today's technologies, most disasters are hard to predict and prevent. Disaster management to reduce damages and losses is particularly important. Computations to predict the effect of an impending or prevailing disaster, i.e. urgent computing, can support civil protection services to make informed decisions that can improve the efficiency of mitigation activities and reduce...
Information and Communication Technology (ICT) is increasingly becoming an important facilitator of effective and efficient delivery of services in higher education institutions (HEIs). The introduction of open, distance and e-learning (ODEL) mode of study has made it necessary for academic libraries to incorporate computer-based information systems (CBIS) in order to facilitate easier access to information...
Cloud computing is one of today's most exciting technologies because of its capacity to reduce cost associated with computing while increasing flexibility and scalability for computer processes. During the past few years, cloud computing has grown from being a promising business idea to one of the fastest growing sectors of the IT industry. But on the other hand, IT organizations have expressed concerns...
Workflow management systems are becoming increasingly flexible and thus open up new areas of application, such as the coordination of activities in disaster response management. However, for managing disaster events effectively, flexibility is seen as a necessary but not sufficient condition. Moreover, effective disaster management processes require comprehensive access to and the processing of public...
Effectively responding to a security incident that takes place inside a city, whether that is a routine road accident or a terrorist attack, is a complex and challenging task. Security forces and administrative bodies have to cooperate in order to share information, allocate resources and create the optimal response. In this paper we present a distributed simulation framework for studying security...
Machine to machine (M2M) communication has been gaining momentum in recent years as a key enabling technology for a wide range of applications including smart grid, e-health, home/industrial automation, and smart cities. However, with the current communication systems mainly optimized for human to human communications, there are important capabilities that need to be developed in M2M systems in order...
For several years, agencies and bodies around the world have been highlighting the increasing number and impact of disasters due to natural hazards and technological accidents. Unquestionably, these threats have raised levels of concern and challenged the sustainability of our communities at local, regional, national and international levels. In this paper, we describe these concerns and propose the...
This paper addresses the impacts of RFID (radio frequency identification) adoption on the performance of emergency management organizations. The research question queries: What are the impacts of RFID adoption on the performance of emergency management operations? In order to investigate the hypothesized impacts including reduced response time, efficient tagging and tracking, compatibility, reduced...
Many domains, such as physical infrastructure and cyber security monitoring, battlefield operations management, disaster response and crisis management, and homeland security, are characterized by dense realtime sensing, large numbers of distributed heterogeneous information sources, and a variety of distributed, communicating, and network-enabled actors and agents. In these domains there is the need...
The NASA EO-1 sensor Web enabled (SWE) data node is offering many Web services using standards developed under the auspices of the Open Geospatial Consortium (OGC). Some of these services have a restricted access (such as the Sensor Planning Service used to task the EO-1 satellite). Depending on the customer initiating the scene, access to some images may also be restricted. The EO-1 SWE is integrated...
This paper describes new considerations for security compliance, reliability and business continuity for electrical utilities. Within the last few years there have been several security and emergency response regulatory measures that require integration into the overall business management practices of the utilities. In 2005, the RUS released regulations requiring borrowers to certify that a Vulnerability...
The following topics are dealt with: security and disaster management; near earth space environment; space benefits and opportunities for emerging countries; space and security; aerospace materials and characterization; aerospace structures; space surveillance; space propulsion and launch; remote sensing; SAR; satellite design; space communication; navigation and control; social benefits and education;...
Nations, corporations and political organizations around the world today are forced to deal with an increasing number of security threats. As a result, various organizations must find ways to adequately equip and prepare themselves to handle numerous dangerous and life threatening circumstances. Virtual reality is an extremely important technology that can be used across a variety of different fields...
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