The impacts of disasters are increasing due to climate change and unplanned urbanization.
Big and open data offer considerable potential for analyzing and predicting human mobility …

Point-of-Interest (POI) recommendation is significant in location-based social networks to
help users discover new locations of interest. Previous studies on such recommendation …

Smart city (SC) technologies can provide appropriate services according to citizens'
demands. One of the key enablers in a SC is the Internet of Things (IoT) technology, which …

Abstract Internet of Things (IoT) applications introduce a set of stringent requirements (eg,
low latency, high bandwidth) to network and computing paradigm. 5G networks are faced …

With the development of software technology, some complex mobile and Internet-of-Things
(IoT) applications can be constituted by a set of microservices. At present, mobile edge …

For the industrial Internet of Things (IIoT), public-key encryption with keyword search (PEKS)
is a type of applicable and promising encryption technique to maintain the data stored in …

Recent decades have seen a significant increase in the frequency, intensity, and impact of
natural disasters and other emergencies, forcing the governments around the world to make …

Internet of Things (IoT) systems are characterized by highly automated operating
environments, which comprise several IoT end devices (IDs) that generate vast amounts of …

When a disaster occurs, a huge amount of inconsistent victim or damage information data is
received by many different sources. Disaster management systems achieve the completion …

Smart cities aim to provide smart governance with the emphasis on gaining high
transparency and trust in public services and enabling citizen participation in decision …