Quantitative Vulnerability Assessment: An Approach to Reduce Biases in Disaster Vulnerability Assessment

An holistic approach to beach erosion vulnerability assessment.

Erosion is a major threat for coasts worldwide, beaches in particular, which constitute one of the most valuable coastal landforms. Vulnerability assessments related to beach erosion may contribute to planning measures to counteract erosion by identifying, quantifying and ranking vulnerability. Herein, we present a new index, the Beach Vulnerability Index (BVI), which combines simplicity in cal...

Vulnerability Assessment of Historical Land uses in Khansar Region and Their Prioritization in Rescue Operations with a Disaster Management Approach

Background and Objective. In recent decades, vulnerability assessment in urban land uses such as historic building in order to increase their resilience and resistance to various human and natural hazards has received more attention. Due to the special geographic condition and special topography of the region, Khansar historical land uses are exposed to all kind of disaster and damages and a co...

Network Vulnerability Assessment:

Adaptivity requires at least frequent, and ideally real-time, updates and also requires the ability to analyze, respond and reconfigure. Such network management flexibility requires several types of information and capabilities, which include response of the network to node failure, reachability of nodes, and boundary control. The first issue determines how the network will respond to a "proble...

Towards Automated Vulnerability Assessment

Vulnerability assessment (VA) is a well established method for determining security weaknesses within a system. The VA process is heavily reliant on expert knowledge, something that is attributed to being in short supply. This paper explores the possibility of automating VA and demonstrates an initial proof-of-concept involving decision-making skills comparable with a human-expert. This is achi...

VOMS Core Vulnerability Assessment