3D geospatial information has always been a challenge due to a variety of data models,
resolutions and details, ways of representation (b-reps, voxel, SCG), etc. After 9/11 the …

Considering the continuous growth of optimization methods and its importance to
Emergency Management (EM) systems, this review paper introduces and discusses the …

Evacuation planning is critical for numerous important applications, eg disaster emergency
management and homeland defense preparation. Efficient tools are needed to produce …

D analysis in GIS is still one of the most challenging topics for research. With the goal being
to model possible movement within the built environment, this paper, therefore, proposes a …

In the p-center problem, it is assumed that the facility located at a node responds to
demands originating from the node. This assumption is suitable for emergency and health …

Evacuation planning and scheduling is a critical aspect of disaster management and
national security applications. This paper proposes a conflict-based path-generation …

In this paper, we present a public decision support system (DSS) distinguished from various
DSSs in the private business sector in terms of its ownership, data scarcity, and …

With an increasing number of large-scale natural and man-created disasters over the last
decade, there is growing focus on the application of operations research techniques for …

Efficient tools are needed to identify routes and schedules to evacuate affected populations
to safety in the event of natural disasters. Hurricane Rita and the recent tsunami revealed …

Since the 11 September 2001 attacks in the United States and the 7 July 2005 London
bombings, geospatial researchers have attempted to utilize GIScience technologies in …