Browsing by Subject "Disasters"
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A novel multi-hop body-To-body routing protocol for disaster and emergency networks
( Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers Inc. , 2016 , Conference Paper)In this paper, a new multi-hop routing protocol (called ORACE-Net) for disaster and emergency networks is proposed. The proposed hierarchical protocol creates an ad-hoc network through body-To-body (B2B) communication ... -
Are We Ready for this Disaster? Towards Location Mention Recognition from Crisis Tweets
( Association for Computational Linguistics (ACL) , 2020 , Conference Paper)The widespread usage of Twitter during emergencies has provided a new opportunity and timely resource to crisis responders for various disaster management tasks. Geolocation information of pertinent tweets is crucial for ... -
Exploring the experiences and preparedness of humanitarian pharmacists in responding to an emergency-response situation
( Elsevier , 2020 , Article)Background: Pharmacists are more frequently being deployed along with other members of the multi-disciplinary team in order to provide humanitarian aid. This team will need to work collaboratively to overcome challenges ... -
IDRISI-RA: The First Arabic Location Mention Recognition Dataset of Disaster Tweets
( Association for Computational Linguistics (ACL) , 2023 , Conference Paper)Extracting geolocation information from social media data enables effective disaster management, as it helps response authorities; for example, in locating incidents for planning rescue activities, and affected people for ... -
Planning post-disaster reconstruction efforts of damaged transportation networks
( American Society of Civil Engineers (ASCE) , 2009 , Conference Paper)Planning, Reconstruction Efforts, Transportation, Network Analysis. Planning the reconstruction efforts of damaged transportation networks in the aftermath of natural disasters is a challenging task due to the limited ... -
Structural health monitoring installation scheme using utility computing model
( Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers Inc. , 2018 , Conference Paper)In view of intensified disasters and fatalities caused by natural phenomena, there is a pressing need for an efficient environment logging that provides structural information to administrators for a better management and ...