Social media offers participatory and collaborative structure and collective knowledge
building capacity to the public information and warning approaches. Therefore, the author …

Currently, we are experiencing a technological shift, which is expected to change the way
we program and interact with the world. Cloud computing and mobile computing are two …

Social media analytics has become prominent in natural disaster management. In spite of a
large variety of metadata fields in social media data, four dimensions (ie space, time, content …

The importance of timely, accurate and effective use of available information is essential to
the proper management of emergency situations. In recent years, emerging technologies …

The rapid urbanization process in the last century has deeply changed the way we live and
interact with each other. As most people now live in urban areas, cities are experiencing …

Evaluating and optimising human comfort within the built environment is challenging due to
the large number of physiological, psychological and environmental variables that affect …

Early event detection and response can significantly reduce the societal impact of floods.
Currently, early warning systems rely on gauges, radar data, models and informal local …

The notion that the human user is the weakest link in information security has been strongly,
and, we argue, rightly contested in recent years. Here, we take a step further showing that …

With the growth of smartphone usage the number of social media posts has significantly
increased and represents potentially valuable information for management, including of …

The involvement application and use of crisis and emergency management and
communication are increasing rapidly. This study conducts a systematic literature review to …