Disaster management is a crucial and urgent research issue. Emergency communication
networks (ECNs) provide fundamental functions for disaster management, because …

Recent decades have seen a significant increase in the frequency, intensity, and impact of
natural disasters and other emergencies, forcing the governments around the world to make …

Natural hazards result in devastating losses in human life, environmental assets and
personal, and regional and national economies. The availability of different big data such as …

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 …

Traditional data collection methods such as remote sensing and field surveying often fail to
offer timely information during or immediately following disaster events. Social sensing …

Although various researches have demonstrated that Social Networks offer a great
opportunity to detect and manage emergencies and disasters in real life applications, in this …

Within the paradigm of smart cities, smart devices can be considered as a tool to enhance
safety. Edge sensing, Internet of Things (IoT), big data, social media analytics, edge …

Nowadays, we are witnessing a shift in the way emergencies are being managed. On the
one hand, the availability of big data and the evolution of geographical information systems …

Floods, earthquakes, storm surges and other natural disasters severely affect the
communication infrastructure and thus compromise the effectiveness of communications …

The construction method for chains of disasters or events is still one of the core scientific
questions in studying the common rules of disaster's evolution. Especially when dealing with …