Spatial computers for emergency management

Proceedings - 2011 5th IEEE Conference on Self-Adaptive and Self-Organizing Systems Workshops, SASOW 2011

Volumn , Issue , 2011, Pages 61-66

  Filippoupolitis, Avgoustinos ^a   Gorbil, Gokce ^a   Gelenbe, Erol ^a  

^a IMPERIAL COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Adaptive systems; Building evacuation; Disaster management; Emergency simulation; Opportunistic communications

Indexed keywords

BUILDING EVACUATION; COMMUNICATION RANGE; DISASTER MANAGEMENT; DISTRIBUTED COMPUTING SYSTEMS; DYNAMIC CONDITION; EMERGENCY MANAGEMENT; EMERGENCY SIMULATION; EMERGENCY SITUATION; FIRST SYSTEMS; INFORMATION EXCHANGES; LOCAL COMMUNICATIONS; MOBILE COMMUNICATIONS; MULTI AGENT SIMULATION; MULTISTOREY BUILDINGS; OPPORTUNISTIC COMMUNICATIONS; OPPORTUNISTIC NETWORKS; SPECIFIC LOCATION;

ADAPTIVE SYSTEMS; BUILDINGS; DISASTER PREVENTION; DISASTERS; HAZARDS; INFORMATION DISSEMINATION; RISK MANAGEMENT; SENSOR NODES;

INFORMATION MANAGEMENT;

EID: 84856611889     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/SASOW.2011.13     Document Type: Conference Paper

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