The case for smartphones as an urgent computing client platform

Procedia Computer Science

Volumn 9, Issue , 2012, Pages 1667-1676

  Palmer, Nicholas ^a   Kemp, Roelof ^a   Kielmann, Thilo ^a   Bal, Henri ^a  

^a VU UNIVERSITY AMSTERDAM   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Disaster management; Mobile; Smartphone; Urgent computing

Indexed keywords

EID: 84896688921     PISSN: 18770509     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1016/j.procs.2012.04.184     Document Type: Conference Paper

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