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This article is to investigate a Voronoi-based computational model for Geographic Knowledge Discovery (GKD) from Geo-reference Web 2.0 datasets to provide detailed emergency management analysis of various geospatial settings including various distance metrics; weights modeling different speeds, impacts, sizes, capacities of disasters; point, line and areas of influence representing disasters, obstacles blocking interactions such as political boundaries, rivers, and so on; higher order neighbors in case the first k-nearest neighbors are currently busy or not functioning; any combination of these settings. The framework is analyzed for efficiency and accuracy and tested in a variety of emergency life-cycle phases consisting of real datasets extracted from GeoWeb 2.0 technologies.
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Torpelund-Bruin, C., Lee, I. (2009). When Generalized Voronoi Diagrams Meet GeoWeb for Emergency Management. In: Chen, H., Yang, C.C., Chau, M., Li, SH. (eds) Intelligence and Security Informatics. PAISI 2009. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 5477. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-01393-5_8
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