Measuring the geological disaster-risked situation, is a typical non-deterministic decision-making issue in disaster prevention and emergency response science for military engineering. Based on the given geological disaster risk analysis mechanism, geological disaster risk monitoring matrix was established, and risk characters’ value was obtained by mining the hidden information in the monitori...

The concept of plate tectonics is generally accepted in earth science and seismology. The surface of the earth is divided into rigid tectonic plates that move on the earth surface at extremely slow speed. The islands of Japan sit on the North American and Eurasian plates. The Pacific plate moves westward and the Philippines plate moves to northwest direction; both plates sink under the islands ...

Successful development of software systems involves the efficient navigation of software artifacts. However, as artifacts are continuously produced and modified, engineers are typically plagued by challenging information landscapes. One stateof-practice approach to structure information is to establish trace links between artifacts; a practice that is also enforced by several development standa...

A framework design for the Chinese National Disaster Reduction System of Systems (CNDRSS) Deren Li a , Linglin Zeng a , Nengcheng Chen a , Jie Shan b c , Liangming Liu b , Yida Fan d & Wei Li b a State Key Laboratory of Information Engineering in Surveying, Mapping and Remote Sensing, Wuhan University, Wuhan, China b School of Remote Sensing and Information Engineering, Wuhan University, Wuhan,...

In general, earthquake disasters in urban areas can hardly be handled by the operable disaster response teams of the affected region. An efficient and integrated disaster management could support their activities and help to limit human losses. Based on EQSIM, a damage estimation tool developed within the German Collaborative Research Centre 461: “Strong Earthquakes, a Challenge for Geosciences...

A conventional approach to model the regional economic impacts of a catastrophic disaster has been to employ the results from an engineering model, such as lifeline network model, in an economic model, for example input-output framework or computable general equilibrium model. However, due to the differences in modeling scheme between economic and engineering models, this type of data feed crea...

Traditional computer applications in civil engineering are mainly for analysis, design and construction of buildings and other structures, which are basic components of social infrastructures. No doubt computer technology has been promoting productivities in the engineering aspect, but few successful efforts have been made in solving social and human related problems, such as disaster mitigatio...