Detecting crisis events accurately is an important task, as it allows the relevant authorities to
implement necessary actions to mitigate damages. For this purpose, social media serve as a …

In extreme situations, the police have limited time to react when a threat or a situation arises
suddenly. Situation awareness has been identified as a key factor for success in how tactical …

Innovative technologies powered by Computer Vision algorithms can aid first responders,
increasing their situational awareness. However, adverse conditions, such as smoke, can …

Police officers' situational awareness during tactical intervention can be crucial for how they
act and whether they use the correct level of force in extreme situations. This paper presents …

The current management of higher education cannot be separated from an information
system, one of which is an academic information system. Along with the many accesses from …

The performance of distributed streaming systems relies on how even the workload is
distributed among their machines. However, data and query workloads are skewed and …

Advanced automated methods, such as deep learning models, provide great promise in
gleaning insight from big data. This chapter provides an overview of the research and …

Social media are rich information sources during and in the aftermath of crisis events such
as earthquakes and terrorist attacks. Despite myriad challenges, with the right tools …

Internet users can be classified based on their activities so that these activities can
determine their behavior. One of these classification methods can be done using the K …

Advanced situational awareness is a central element of today's crisis and disaster
management and the basis of improved decision-making. A prerequisite for optimised …