Improving Disaster Resilience and Mitigation - IT Means and Tools

Part I: Fundamentals and Modeling.- Survey of IC&T in disaster mitigation and disaster situation management.- Organizations under siege: innovative adaptive behaviors in work organizations.- Risk perception and communication.- Establishing social resilience with (public-private partnership)-based BCM (Business Continuity Management).- A model for the spatio-temporal distribution of population using country-wide statistical data and its application to the estimation of human exposure to disasters.- From noise to knowledge: smart city-responses to disruption.- Challenges of image-based crowd-sourcing for situation awareness in disaster management.-Foresight and forecast for prevention, mitigation and recovering after social, technical and environmental disasters.- Disaster early warning and relief: a human-centered approach.- Expert systems for assessing disaster impact on the environment.- Fuzzy logic and data mining in disaster mitigation.- Decision support to build in landslide prone areas.- Part II: Tools and Applications.- Mitigation using emergent technologies.- Geographic information for disaster management – An overview.- /The potential of cloud computing for analysis and finding solutions in disasters; M. Craus, C. Butincu.- How to improve the reactiveness and efficiency of embedded multi-core systems by use of probabilistic simulation and optimization techniques.- Design of safe systems.- Emergency-Sona Res: a system for ultrasound diagnostics support in extreme cases.- A decision support system for forest fire containment.- Vulnerability analysis and GIS based seismic risk assessment Georgia case.- Sensors for environmental control based on chaotic systems.- Wearable, assistive system for monitoring people in critical Environments.