Transformer, an attention-based encoder–decoder model, has already revolutionized the
field of natural language processing (NLP). Inspired by such significant achievements, some …

Critical infrastructures such as transportation, power, telecommunication, water supply, and
hospitals play a vital role in effectively managing post-disaster responses. The resilience of …

Seismic resilience is a concept to evaluate the postearthquake functionality of structures that
significantly play a critical role in postearthquake rescue and recovery. Indeed, the …

Fostering high-resolution disaster resilience assessment is essential for high-density cities
(HDCs) given their congested built environment. This study introduces and demonstrates a …

The COVID-19 pandemic, which lasted for three years, has had a great impact on the public
health system, society and economy of cities, revealing the insufficiency of urban resilience …

Earthquakes cause serious damage to structures, and seismic strengthening is an effective
solution to improving structural capacity. With the development of prefabricated technology …

Understanding human behavior and predicting evacuation processes subsequently to an
earthquake are critical aspects to provide valuable information to support disaster response …

The current urbanization and increase of intensity and likelihood of natural hazard events
underline that particular attention must be addressed to strengthening urban resilience to …

In the current stage, the risk-guided performance-based earthquake engineering (PBEE)
has become the main direction in the earthquake community. As an important part of risk …

The metro rail system has proven to be the most efficient high-capacity carriers. During the
unprecedented coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) challenge, non-pharmaceutical …