With the increasing trend of global warming, the frequent occurrences of natural disasters
have brought serious challenges to the sustainable development of the society. Therefore …

While occupants are evacuating from the fire scene, firefighters are entering life-threatening
environments, exposed to hot and toxic fire smoke and risks of structural failures or …

Disasters are large intractable problems that test the ability of communities and nations to
effectively protect their populations and infrastructure, to reduce both human and property …

Over the past 50 years, a wealth of applications has resulted from researchers turning their
attention to operations such as fire suppression, law enforcement and ambulance services …

This study summarizes results of a study of Technical Debt across 745 business applications
comprising 365 million lines of code collected from 160 companies in 10 industry segments …

The number and intensity of flood events have been on the rise in many regions of the world.
In some parts of the US, for example, almost all residential properties, transportation …

Flood risk management must rely on a proper and encompassing flood risk assessment,
which possibly reflects the individual characteristics of all elements at risk of being flooded …

As evidenced by Hurricane Katrina in August, 2005, disaster response efforts are hindered
by a lack of coordination, poor information flows, and the inability of disaster response …

To improve the work efficiency of each rescue team in case of emergency and increase the
responsiveness of emergency rescue work, a multi-objective optimization model of site …

An emergency response decision support system (ERDSS) needs to assist decision makers
to evaluate emergency plans and select an appropriate one during an emergency by …