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Collaborative approach to public sector innovation becomes increasingly popular in the public sector. This paper examines the role of innovation labs in facilitating multi-actor collaboration for the development of new online service in emergency ...

In recent years, the rapid advancement of technology has paved the way for innovative solutions aimed at enhancing personal safety and security. Among these, wearable Internet of Things (IoT) devices have emerged as a significant development, ...

Community gas pipeline accidents are sudden and rapid, and need to be efficiently and comprehensively carried out after the accident discovery report. In this paper, we pioneered the use of graph-structured accident case representation model to realise ...

Emergency response to large-scale disasters is often supported with multimedia from social media. However, while these features are common in everyday video calls, the complex needs of 911 and other systems make it difficult to directly incorporate these ...

Emergency response decision making is crucial in managing critical incidents; however, several studies have demonstrated the negative effects of decision inertia. Understanding the manifestation and impact of decision inertia, as well as utilising ...

In the context of emergency response applications, real-time situational awareness is vital. Unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) with imagers have emerged as crucial tools for providing timely information in such scenarios. Convolutional neural ...

Time of incident reporting is a critical aspect of emergency response. However, the conventional approaches to receiving incident reports have time delays. Non-traditional sources such as crowdsourced data present an opportunity to detect incidents ...

The research on network security in material support is aimed at ensuring the security and stable operation of the material supply chain. This article conducts research and summary on network security in material support. Firstly, the basic situation of ...

Various initiatives are in place worldwide to reduce the time from the occurrence of an out-of-hospital cardiac arrest to the start of cardiopulmonary resuscitation (CPR) and defibrillation using an Automated External Defibrillator (AED). In ...

• Investigate the potential of joint planning and dispatching of volunteers and AED delivering drones for out-of-hospital cardiac arrest.
• Optimization models are used to determine good locations for drones.
• The locations are ...

Recent disasters occurring as natural events, industrial incidents, and public health crises, impose unprecedented challenges to humans and communities. Increasing uncertainty and complexity of disasters require multidisciplinary research efforts ...

In emergency response scenarios, autonomous small Unmanned Aerial Systems (sUAS) must be configured and deployed quickly and safely to perform mission-specific tasks. In this paper, we present Drone Response, a Software Product Line ...

This paper compared simulation results from different SWMM model constructions after radiological contamination from a hypothetical dirty bomb. The model constructions included a utility-provided combined sewer model, a high-resolution ...

• Model structure impacts predicted radionuclide transport through stormwater system.

Disasters are inevitable for the coastal community due to their geographical closeness to the vast ocean. Sea-level rise, coastal floods, cyclones, hurricanes, tsunamis, and even high tides affect coastal communities across the globe. It leads to ...

• A novel attentive neural network is introduced into UOG emergency response system.

With the prosperous development of unconventional oil and gas (UOG) began in the mid-1990 s, the proliferation of digital textual compliance reports from the UOG production life-cycle makes it imperative for experts to develop ...

• Structurally describes the problem scenario of public health emergencies.
• ...

Infectious diseases are a global public health problem, which requires timely and effective responses. This study proposes a novel model that contributes to the development of such responses. First, the problem scenario features of ...

Space sector is considered to be one of those which are essential to maintain vital economic and social functions. Critical Infrastructures or Critical Entities that belong to these sectors are exposed to a wide range of natural and man-made ...

• A multimodal humanitarian information identification task that can adapt to label inconsistency caused by modality independence and maintain modality correlation is defined.
• A multimodal humanitarian information identification model ...

Information residing in multiple modalities (e.g., text, image) of social media posts can jointly provide more comprehensive and clearer insights into an ongoing emergency. To identify information valuable for humanitarian aid from noisy ...

• A GRASP metaheuristic is proposed and tested to solve the KPC-ARCP.
• The ...

Natural disasters such as earthquakes can severely impact road networks. Depending on the disaster intensity and the size of the affected area, the network may be divided into multiple disconnected parts. In a disaster response context,...

Smart city management is facing a new challenge from littered face masks during COVID-19 pandemic. Addressing the issues of detection and collection of this hazardous waste that is littered in public spaces and outside the controlled environments, ...