Introduction of ubiquitous technology is changing our daily living environment. Particularly, the new IT services applying the RFID and USN technology are used in wide ranging areas such as the weather, logistics, urban facility management and agriculture. However, information security of such new services closely related to our daily lives is very weak. This paper intends to evaluate the safet...

Random fluctuations in temperature and precipitation have substantial impacts on agricultural output. However, the contribution of these changing configurations in weather to total factor productivity (TFP) growth has not been addressed explicitly in econometric analyses. Thus, the key objective of this study is to quantify and to investigate the role of changing weather patterns in explaining ...

BACKGROUND Pro-active and effective control as well as quantitative assessment of impact of climate change on malaria requires identification of the major drivers of the epidemic. Malaria depends on vector abundance which, in turn, depends on a combination of weather variables. However, there remain several gaps in our understanding and assessment of malaria in a changing climate. Most of the s...

Climate sensitive urban planning and building design require detailed information on effects of a changing climate. To simulate thermal building performance appropriate data are required as “standardized weather files”. But as historic weather records cannot be used to model building performance for future climate, synthetic “future weather” data are necessary. Here we present the steps to deri...

Human-driven climatic changes will fundamentally influence patterns of human health, including infectious disease clusters and epidemics following extreme weather events. Extreme weather events are projected to increase further with the advance of human-driven climate change. Both recent and historical experiences indicate that infectious disease outbreaks very often follow extreme weather even...

This paper introduces predictive framework for asset management risk assessment that utilizes big data. It describes the data analytics required for integrating the big data in time and space. The proposed assets management framework is novel since it implements a dynamic proactive maintenance scheduling. The dynamic maintenance scheduling overpowers the conventional periodic scheduling, by tak...

This article analyses the profound and rapid climate changes that have taken place worldwide in the past two decades and their effects on modern enterprise. Reducing greenhouse gas emissions and developing strategies to adapt to and counterbalance future impacts of climate change sustainably are among the most pressing needs of the world today. Global temperatures are predicted to continue risi...