Improving Disaster Resilience and Mitigation - IT Means and Tools

The focus of this volume is comprised of the fundamentals, models, and information technologies (IT) methods and tools for disaster prediction and mitigation. A more detailed list of topics includes mathematical and computational modeling of processes leading to or producing disasters, modeling of d...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor Corporativo: SpringerLink (Online service)
Otros Autores: Teodorescu, Horia-Nicolai (Editor ), Kirschenbaum, Alan (Editor ), Cojocaru, Svetlana (Editor ), Bruderlein, Claude (Editor )
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Dordrecht : Springer Netherlands : Imprint: Springer, 2014.
Edición:1st ed. 2014.
Colección:NATO Science for Peace and Security Series C: Environmental Security,
Temas:
Computer simulation.
Natural disasters.
Geographic information systems.
Application software.
Computer Modelling.
Natural Hazards.
Geographical Information System.
Computer and Information Systems Applications.
Acceso en línea:Texto Completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Part I: Fundamentals and Modeling
  • Survey of IC&T in disaster mitigation and disaster situation management
  • Organizations under siege: innovative adaptive behaviors in work organizations
  • Risk perception and communication
  • Establishing social resilience with (public-private partnership)-based BCM (Business Continuity Management)
  • A model for the spatio-temporal distribution of population using country-wide statistical data and its application to the estimation of human exposure to disasters
  • From noise to knowledge: smart city-responses to disruption
  • Challenges of image-based crowd-sourcing for situation awareness in disaster management.-Foresight and forecast for prevention, mitigation and recovering after social, technical and environmental disasters
  • Disaster early warning and relief: a human-centered approach
  • Expert systems for assessing disaster impact on the environment
  • Fuzzy logic and data mining in disaster mitigation
  • Decision support to build in landslide prone areas
  • Part II: Tools and Applications
  • Mitigation using emergent technologies
  • Geographic information for disaster management - An overview
  • /The potential of cloud computing for analysis and finding solutions in disasters; M. Craus, C. Butincu
  • How to improve the reactiveness and efficiency of embedded multi-core systems by use of probabilistic simulation and optimization techniques
  • Design of safe systems
  • Emergency-Sona Res: a system for ultrasound diagnostics support in extreme cases
  • A decision support system for forest fire containment
  • Vulnerability analysis and GIS based seismic risk assessment Georgia case
  • Sensors for environmental control based on chaotic systems
  • Wearable, assistive system for monitoring people in critical Environments.

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