Operational Flood Management Virtual Special Issue

Issues and Challenges in Flood Risk Management—Editorial for the Special Issue on Flood Risk Management

Recent flood-related disasters (Japan, Thailand, US, Australia) emphasize the need for an effective management of flood risks. As an introduction to this special issue, this editorial summarizes some of the key challenges in the field. Flood risk management needs to recognize the interconnections between infrastructures, economic systems and the role of human factors in assessing and managing t...

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Special issue: Barriers to Sustainable Management of Water Quantity and Quality Flood protection—sustainability Issues

There has been much recent emphasis on sustainable development of water resources in that the needs of the present generation are fulfilled without compromising future generations to meet their needs. Also, systems of flood protection and management are being increasingly considered in the context of sustainable development. Destructive floods have jeopardized settlements located near rivers si...

Special issue on operational research in project management: pragmatic solutions for real life problems

Operational research (OR) is an interdisciplinary branch of applied mathematics that uses advanced analytical methods such as mathematical modeling, statistical analysis, and optimization to arrive at optimal or near-optimal solutions to complex decision-making problems. It is often concerned with determining the maximum (of profit, performance, or yield) or minimum (of loss, risk, or cost) of ...

Special issue on Digital Information Management

Nowadays, most of the society activities and business models are driven by the unprecedented evolution of data acquisition technologies together with advances in computing and communications. This has resulted in an explosive growth in the number, size, diversity of potentially useful digital information sources of various types (image, audio, video, ...) in several application domains, such as...