Disasters, whether natural or human-made, leave a lasting impact on human lives and
require mitigation measures. In the past, millions of human beings lost their lives and …

Disasters affect human lives severely. Due to these disasters, hundreds and thousands of
human beings lost their lives and gracious properties. Government agencies …

There has been an exponential growth and availability of both structured and unstructured
data that can be leveraged to provide better emergency management in case of natural …

The Large-scale natural and man-made hazards and disasters sometimes triggered and/or
encouraged by regional conflicts, climate change, or migration are growing in intensity and …

This work aims to develop an ontological data model to support urban flood disaster
response. The preliminary studies of the existing flood ontologies revealed that the …

Massive amounts of open data related to a crisis aren't fully used to identify humanitarian
needs because most of the data exists in an unstructured format, thus hindering machines in …

Disaster information, such as information on earthquakes, tsunamis, floods, fire, hazard
chemicals, hurricanes, etc., is usually rapidly changeable, ambiguous, and huge. It often …

This book is an attempt to establish in the readers the importance of creating interoperable
data stores and writing rules for handling this data. It also covers extracts from a few project …

Disaster management requires extensive and various information. Semantic web offers a
large potential to be utilized in the applications for supporting disaster management with its …

Disasters, whether natural or human inflicted, have always affected mankind severely.
Information and Communication Technologies (ICT) solutions are best suited to solve …