Time plays an important role in some application domains, and can be quite difficult to deal with in diagrams. This is not only true for temporal uncertainty, but also for periodic events. We compare nine different representations that include a notion of time or that are mainly used for temporal information: Time Lines/LifeLines, AsbruView, Ganttand PERT-Charts, Shinkansen timetables, Temporal...

This paper presents a comprehensive model to quantify disaster resilience of systems that is defined as the capability to sustain functionality and recover from losses generated by extreme events. The model combines loss estimation and recovery models and can be applied to critical facilities (e.g. hospitals, military buildings, etc.), as well as utility lifelines (e.g. electric power systems, ...

This paper presents wireless systems for use in disaster recovery operations. The Great East Japan Earthquake of March 11, 2011 reinforced the importance of communications in, to, and between disaster areas as lifelines. It also revealed that conventional wireless systems used for disaster recovery need to be renovated to cope with technological changes and to provide their services with easier...

In recent years, disasters have an increasing impact on modern societies in terms of both economic and human losses. Following disasters, transportation networks act as key lifelines enabling access to the affected communities and supporting evacuation, emergency response, relief and recovery operations. In this context, this two-part survey offers a systematic review of papers related to trans...

We evaluate susceptibility to lava flows on Mt. Etna based on specially designed die-toss experiments using probabilities for type of activation, time and place culled from the volcano‟s 400-year recorded history and current studies on its known factures and fissures. The types of activations were forecast using a table of probabilities for events, typed by duration and volume of ejecta. Length...

In the past, research on agent-oriented software engineering had been widely lacking touch with the world of industrial software development. Recently, a cooperation has been established between the Foundation of Intelligent Physical Agents (FIPA) and the Object Management Group (OMG) aiming to increase acceptance of agent technology in industry by relating to de facto standards (object-oriente...

Current query systems for video databases rely heavily on structured schemas and often require user annotation of data. These systems need to be made more flexible and accessible to the diverse organizations that utilize them. By building on current work with lifelines, and incorporating new structures for organizing metadata, we can make great strides towards accomplishing this goal. This pape...

The integration of artificial intelligence into various aspects daily life is developing at a rapid pace in Japan. Discussions to govern applications the field social infrastructure are also critical and need match development. However, legal implications risks applying management lifelines such as drinking water supply wastewater treatment have not yet been fully explored. This paper reviews e...

The advent of location-based technologies deployed in protected areas provides both visitors and managers of such areas with new opportunities. In this paper we investigate the potential for mining individual tracks of visitors’ geospatial lifelines to both extract information describing aggregated patterns of group behaviour and characterise individual actions. Methods to spatio-temporally clu...

Water, energy, and food are lifelines for modern societies. The continuously rising world population, growing desires for higher living standards, and inextricable links among the three sectors make the water-energy-food (WEF) nexus a vibrant research pursuit. For the integrated delivery of WEF systems, quantifying WEF connections helps understand synergies and trade-offs across the water, ener...