Undoubtedly, the age of big data has opened new options for natural disaster management,
primarily because of the varied possibilities it provides in visualizing, analyzing, and …

Abstract Maps and Geographic Information Systems (GIS) are widely used to better
understand and manage risks in modern cities. While methods for map** hazard …

Social media is an invaluable source of time-critical information during a crisis. However,
emergency response and humanitarian relief organizations that would like to use this …

Social media was underutilised in disaster management practices, as it was not seen as a
real-time ground level information harvesting tool during a disaster. In recent years, with the …

Current disaster management procedures to cope with human and economic losses and to
manage a disaster's aftermath suffer from a number of shortcomings like high temporal lags …

Disasters are natural catastrophic events that cause damage to property and loss of lives.
Highly-reliable in-situ location information is critical for rescue efforts during and after …

Business process management (BPM) drives corporate success through effective and
efficient processes. In recent decades, knowledge has been accumulated regarding the …

Digital social data are now practically ubiquitous, with increasingly large and interconnected
databases leading researchers, politicians, and the private sector to focus on how such 'big …

The interplay between smart urban technologies and city development is a relatively
uncharted territory. Technology and the City aims to fill that gap, exploring the growing …

Social media platforms have been contributing to disaster management during the past
several years. Text mining solutions using traditional machine learning techniques have …