The recent development of big data analytics (BDA) and the Internet of Things (IoT)
technologies create a huge opportunity for both disaster management systems and disaster …

Advancements in smart devices, wearable gadgets, sensors, and communication paradigm
have enabled the vision of smart cities, pervasive healthcare, augmented reality and …

Smart grid (SG) is an integration of traditional power grid with advanced information and
communication infrastructure for bidirectional energy flow between grid and end users. A …

In emergency evacuations, crowds often become congested and stampeded because of
extreme panic, resulting in injuries and fatalities. Safety officers can spread positive …

In recent years, different kinds of natural hazards or man-made disasters happened that
were diversified and difficult to control with heavy casualties. In this paper, we focus on the …

Temporary mobile social networks has been used at hotels, concerts, theme parks, and
sports arenas, where people form a mobile social group for a short time with a common …

In this study, we consider the purchase prediction problem in the context of e-tourism, an
emerging and prevailing application in e-commerce. Although a wide array of studies have …

Natural disasters and terrorist attacks pose a significant threat to human society, and have
stressed an urgent need for the development of comprehensive and efficient evacuation …

With deepening urbanization and Internet of Vehicles (IoV) applications, the number of
private cars has been increasing in recent years. However, because the surging number of …

Recent studies of social media have made a unanimous conclusion that public opinions can
be altered through systematic exploitation of social media using bot accounts. The existing …