In today's emergency management environments geoinformation technologies play a vital role, but their potential has not been fully exploited. Key decision makers usually do not have direct access to Geographic Information Systems and if they receive access, complex user interfaces often hinder performance for high pressure tasks. In order to provide decision makers with direct and easy access t...

The increasing number of victims from disasters in recent years results in several challenges for authorities aiming to protect and provide support to affected people. Humanitarian logistics represents one of the most important fields during preparedness and response in cases of disaster, seeking to provide relief, information and services to disaster victims. However, on top of the challenges ...

Robots with many degrees of freedom (e.g., humanoid robots andmobile manipulators) have increasingly been employed to accomplish realistic tasks in domains such as disaster relief, spacecraft logistics, and home caretaking. Finding feasible motions for these robots autonomously is essential for their operation. Sampling-basedmotion planning algorithms have been shown to be effective for these h...

• Signs are emerging that the PLA is becoming more confident about its position vis-à-vis Taiwan. At the same time, China believes that a changing international environment requires the Chinese armed forces to have more diversified capabilities. It is therefore placing relatively more emphasis on developing operational capabilities for missions other than against Taiwan (e.g., humanitarian assi...

At present, with the adjustment of the structure of the steel industry, the steel logistics industry is also engaged in integrating. Steel logistics resource integration is an important problem to be solved. Based on previous research on steel logistics resource integration, this paper proposes a new research perspective on steel logistics resources integration: supply-demand network of steel l...

The rapid development of mobile commerce (m-commerce) has profound influence on logistics industry. Firstly, through analysis that combines m-commerce and the logistics industry, the paper draws a conclusion that main m-commerce applications in logistics industry include cargo tracking, mobile inventory management, vehicle positioning and M2M (machine to machine) mobile services. Then, we think...

Alejandro Serrano MIT-Zaragoza International Logistics Program, Zaragoza Logistics Center, Zaragoza, Spain. [email protected] Rogelio Oliva Mays Business School, Texas A&M University, College Station, TX MIT-Zaragoza International Logistics Program, Zaragoza Logistics Center, Zaragoza, Spain. [email protected] Santiago Kraiselburd MIT-Zaragoza International Logistics Program, Zaragoza Logistics...

The management of humanitarian logistical operations was for many years the weak link in the relief chain. Within the advent of big data, this challenge has been changing life and the way of dealing in the humanitarian field. Data is increasing exponentially due to the growing digitization of modern life and the further evolution of data collection in combination with the digital technology. Mo...

There is an urgent demand for information systems to gather heterogeneous information about needs, donations and warehouse stocks to provide an integrated view for decision making in humanitarian logistics. The dynamic flow of information, due to the unpredicted events, requires adaptive features. The traditional relational data model is not suitable due to its schema rigidity. As an alternativ...

The COVID-19 pandemic and the related emergency have contributed to push for innovative solutions applied health care. In particular, robotics has shown huge potential contributing relief efforts improving people's quality of life in several scenarios. this article, a robotic system, characterized by interaction capabilities autonomous navigation, is developed be used health-care treatment cent...