Elements of disaster

Cyber-Physical Elements of Disaster Prepared Smart Environment

Recent years have ushered in tremendous advances in information and communication technologies (ICT) and infrastructures for disaster management. Still, daily news on disasters has been telling us that even people in technologically advanced regions remain ill prepared. Smart and intelligent environments now offer us an increasingly broader spectrum of devices and services for comfort and conve...

Structure and Elements of Disaster Response Processes - A General Meta-Model

Executing effective, efficient disaster response processes (DRPs) in the immediate aftermath of disaster is crucial to minimizing any potential damages to life and assets. Existing approaches from the business process management background seem to promise to support the management of DRP with process-aware IT systems and tools. However, domain-specific challenges of disaster response management...

Ontology Structure of Elements for Web-Based Natural Disaster Management Systems

Recent natural disasters have brought forth the need for disaster preparedness, planning, and management. Hurricane Katrina demonstrated the usefulness of websites in dealing with a natural disaster. However, little is known about the necessary contents and structures of web-based information management for natural disaster preparation. In this paper, we focus on developing the ontology structu...

Ontology Structure of Elements for Web-based Natural Disaster Preparedness Systems

Recent natural disasters have brought forth the need for disaster preparedness, planning, and management. Hurricane Katrina demonstrated the usefulness of websites in dealing with a natural disaster. However, little is known about the necessary contents and structures of web-based information management for natural disaster preparation. In this paper, we focus on developing the ontology structu...

Emergency and disaster preparedness in the healthcare setting: elements of a viable response.