Hydrological models allow water levels to be predicted at critical spots when the problem of
flooding is being addressed. However, these models fall short in their attempts to provide …

Although floods cause millions of dollars in economic and social losses each year, many
people living in developing countries, such as Brazil, do not have access to a flooding alert …

The paper provides an overview of available Web services security vulnerability models and
proposes a classification of the potential grid and Web services attacks and vulnerabilities …

Software systems have become increasingly large and complex, often resulting from the
integration of several operationally independent systems, thus leading to a new class of …

Monitoring systems are ubiquitous in many environmental science fields due to the
technological advances in the last decades, which contributed to the migration from …

Systems-of-Systems (SoSs) are evolutionary developed from independent systems to
achieve missions through emergent behavior. As concrete systems which will actually …

Understanding hydrological processes in large, open areas, such as catchments, and further
modelling these processes are still open research questions. The system proposed in this …

This paper presents the essence of IoT (Internet of Things) works and design challenges,
discusses its principles of operation, and presents IoT development concepts. WSN …

Several adaptive systems have been proposed that are based on the concepts of smart
cities, which can be successfully adapted to natural disasters or other public safety …

Excitement about the potential usage of sensor data sourcing to provide near real-time
information has spread to the emergency management sector. Despite the advantages that …