Mobile Cloud Computing (MCC) leverages resourceful data centers that are distant (aka the
cloud) or closely located (aka edge servers) for computational offloading to overcome …

Unmanned ground vehicles (UGVs) and unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) are promising
assets to support rescue operations in natural or man-made disasters. Most UGVs and UAVs …

Reliable communication and emergency services are crucial for the success of crisis
response and management. However, today's emergency technologies used by rescuers …

Steady progress in ubiquitous technologies and machine learning facilitates ever-new and
better digital assistants. However, most of these emerging assistants rely on-partly similar …

Reliable communications are crucial for the success of emergency response and
management. However, today's technologies used by rescuers and civilians mainly rely on …

Responsive applications such as augmented reality require nearby computational offloading
units with low latency. The concept of cloudlets is one promising approach that satisfies …

Crowd sensing exploits users' smart devices and human mobility to collect information on a
large scale. To realize a crowd sensing campaign, sensing tasks with spatio-temporal …

This paper describes a general framework for modeling and analyzing ATM traffic control
using the stochastic high level Petri net (SHLPN). The reasons SHLPN is chosen are two …

Crowd sensing is an emerging paradigm that utilizes the power of the smart devices within
the crowd to collect information. In general, the collected information is aggregated in a …

In disaster situations, the coordination of rescue missions is a difficult task. The person in
charge makes decisions under pressure, which could lead to inappropriate instructions to …