Federation Based on MQTT for Urban Humanitarian Assistance and Disaster Recovery Operations

Multicriteria Cost Assessment and Logistics Modeling for Military Humanitarian Assistance and Disaster Relief Aerial Delivery Operations

Negotiation Issues in Multinational Humanitarian Assistance/Disaster Relief

Large scale Humanitarian Assistance/Disaster Relief (HA/DR) operations often require the intervention and aid of various agencies from all over the world. As a result, HA/DR operations involve many negotiation and coordination issues. Although a number of studies have emphasized computer assistance for negotiations, it remains unclear how such information and communication technology could be e...

Between war and peace: humanitarian assistance in violent urban settings.

Cities are fast becoming new territories of violence. The humanitarian consequences of many criminally violent urban settings are comparable to those of more traditional wars, yet despite the intensity of the needs, humanitarian aid to such settings is limited. The way in which humanitarian needs are typically defined, fails to address the problems of these contexts, the suffering they produce ...

Comparative study on inter-organizational cooperation in disaster situations and impact on humanitarian aid operations

Given the increased numbers of disasters and humanitarian crises which occur in the face of diminishing global resources, the contemporary disaster management and humanitarian fields face greater challenges to optimize cooperation and coordination processes among actors as well as in ensuring and increasing humanitarian aid delivery performance. This research, by using two case studies, will co...

GIS and agent-based models for humanitarian assistance