Buildings and crowds: Forming smart cities for more effective disaster management

Proceedings - 2011 5th International Conference on Innovative Mobile and Internet Services in Ubiquitous Computing, IMIS 2011

Volumn , Issue , 2011, Pages 229-234

  Asimakopoulou, Eleana ^a   Bessis, Nik ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BEDFORDSHIRE   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF DERBY   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Crowd sourcing; e services; Integrated disaster management; Next generation technologies; Smart cities

Indexed keywords

CROWD SOURCING; E-SERVICES; GENERATION TECHNOLOGIES; INTEGRATED DISASTER MANAGEMENT; SMART CITIES;

COMPETITION; DISASTER PREVENTION; DISASTERS; ELECTRONIC COMMERCE; HUMAN COMPUTER INTERACTION; INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY; INTERNET; TELECOMMUNICATION NETWORKS; UBIQUITOUS COMPUTING; WEB SERVICES;

INFORMATION SERVICES;

EID: 80052385083     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/IMIS.2011.129     Document Type: Conference Paper

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