There is a critical need to develop a mobile-based emergency response system (MERS) to
help reduce risks in emergency situations. Existing systems only provide short message …

This chapter reports on progress made in the development of techniques and tools to
formalize, describe, detect and understand movement patterns in spatiotemporal data. The …

Video surveillance is gaining popularity in numerous applications, including facility
management, traffic monitoring, crowd analysis, and urban security. Despite the increasing …

Data collection and analysis in the field is critical for operations in domains such as
environmental science and public safety. However, field workers currently face dataand …

Purpose–The purpose of this paper is to present an intelligent mobile based emergency
response system (MERS) framework, a text information extraction and aggregation algorithm …

The advent of modern smart phones and handheld devices has given analysts, decision-
makers, and even the general public the ability to rapidly ingest data and translate it into …

During emergency responses, public health leaders frequently serve in incident
management roles that differ from their routine job functions. Leaders' familiarity with …

Building emergencies, especially structure fires, are threats to the safety of both building
occupants and first responders. It is difficult and dangerous for first responders to perform …

Morteza's thesis investigated the opportunities in using BI technologies to make sense of a
business environment. The results of his research highlighted the need for creating and …

Mobile government (m-Government) is the next inevitable direction of evolution of e-
Government. A mobile-based emergency response system (MERS) is one of the important m …