Smart city and crisis management: Lessons for the COVID-19 pandemic

M Hassankhani, M Alidadi, A Sharifi… - International Journal of …, 2021 - mdpi.com
COVID-19 shocked cities around the world and revealed the vulnerability of urban lives and
functions. Most cities experienced a catastrophic disturbance that has lasted for a long time …

[HTML][HTML] A critical review of digital technology innovations for early warning of water-related disease outbreaks associated with climatic hazards

CD Girotto, F Piadeh, V Bkhtiari, K Behzadian… - International Journal of …, 2024 - Elsevier
Water-related climatic disasters pose a significant threat to human health due to the potential
of disease outbreaks, which are exacerbated by climate change. Therefore, it is crucial to …

A systematic review of the use of topic models for short text social media analysis

CDP Laureate, W Buntine, H Linger - Artificial Intelligence Review, 2023 - Springer
Recently, research on short text topic models has addressed the challenges of social media
datasets. These models are typically evaluated using automated measures. However, recent …

[HTML][HTML] CasSeqGCN: Combining network structure and temporal sequence to predict information cascades

Y Wang, X Wang, Y Ran, R Michalski, T Jia - Expert Systems with …, 2022 - Elsevier
One important task in the study of information cascade is to predict the future recipients of a
message given its past spreading trajectory. While the network structure serves as the …

Improving crisis events detection using distilbert with hunger games search algorithm

H Adel, A Dahou, A Mabrouk, M Abd Elaziz, M Kayed… - Mathematics, 2022 - mdpi.com
This paper presents an alternative event detection model based on the integration between
the DistilBERT and a new meta-heuristic technique named the Hunger Games Search …

A building information modeling-based fire emergency evacuation simulation system for large infrastructures

Z Ding, S Xu, X Xie, K Zheng, D Wang, J Fan… - Reliability Engineering & …, 2024 - Elsevier
During fire emergencies, people in large infrastructures are difficult to comprehend real-time
fire dynamics and identify available evacuation routes, leading to lengthy evacuation time …

A social media event detection framework based on transformers and swarm optimization for public notification of crises and emergency management

A Dahou, A Mabrouk, AA Ewees, MA Gaheen… - … Forecasting and Social …, 2023 - Elsevier
Social media allows the spread of vital information regarding crises and emergencies. Thus,
emergency management systems can benefit from social media because they can be used …

Cross-platform analysis of public responses to the 2019 Ridgecrest earthquake sequence on Twitter and Reddit

T Ruan, Q Kong, SK McBride, A Sethjiwala, Q Lv - Scientific reports, 2022 - nature.com
Online social networks (OSNs) have become a powerful tool to study collective human
responses to extreme events such as earthquakes. Most previous research concentrated on …

A systematic review of natural language processing applications for hydrometeorological hazards assessment

A Tounsi, M Temimi - Natural hazards, 2023 - Springer
Natural language processing (NLP) is a promising tool for collecting data that are usually
hard to obtain during extreme weather, like community response and infrastructure …

Early warning response to rainstorm: designing a model with incentive and supervision mechanisms based on the principal-agent theory

R Ma, J Liu, S An - International Journal of Disaster Risk Reduction, 2024 - Elsevier
Owing to the increasing frequency of rainstorm disasters, strengthening the link between
meteorological warning and emergency response that is early warning response has …