A next generation technology victim location and low level assessment framework for occupational disasters caused by natural hazards

International Journal of Distributed Systems and Technologies

Volumn 2, Issue 1, 2011, Pages 43-53

  Bessis, Nik ^a   Asimakopoulou, Eleana ^b   Norrington, Peter ^b   Thomas, Suresh ^b   Varaganti, Ravi ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF DERBY   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF BEDFORDSHIRE   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Ad hoc mobile network; Collective computational intelligence; Disaster management; Next generation technologies; Occupational disaster; Web 2.0

Indexed keywords

AD-HOC MOBILE NETWORKS; ADVANCED INFORMATIONS; DISASTER MANAGEMENT; DISASTER REDUCTION; EMERGENCY MANAGEMENT; GENERATION TECHNOLOGIES; SERVICE ARCHITECTURE; WEB 2.0;

ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE; DISASTER PREVENTION; DISASTERS; INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY; RISK MANAGEMENT; WORLD WIDE WEB;

NEXT GENERATION NETWORKS;

EID: 84870717861     PISSN: 19473532     EISSN: 19473540     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.4018/jdst.2011010104     Document Type: Article

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