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Flooding disaster resilience information framework for smart and connected communities

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This paper presents the research challenges of designing a combined physical sensor- and social sensor-based information framework to collect heterogeneous flooding disaster data, and then to fuse those data and generate actionable understandings. Our overall objective is to improve the response preparedness of critical infrastructures, contributing to the goal of smart and connected communities. We propose methods to model physical and social sensors, and open demographic data integration with regional knowledge, and to leverage these fused data for understanding impending events and conditions deleterious to lives and properties. In addition, the proposed system will predict the disaster events and provide knowledge-based recommendations to inform emergency management personnel to enable the resilience of the smart and connected communities. Preliminary experiments for the framework are promising. Further work is needed to validate the framework in collaboration with the local emergency managers.

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The work is partially supported by the National Science Foundation grant CNS-1763294. Authors would also like to acknowledge the support of Dr. Dong Wang, Dr. Brian Xu, and Mr. Ike Vayansky for their help in generating methodology diagram and experimental results. Authors would also like to thank Dr. Zhenlong Li for providing the social media data for analysis.

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  1. Department of Computing Sciences, Coastal Carolina University, Conway, SC, 29528, USA

    Sathish A. P. Kumar

  2. Department of Coastal and Marine System Sciences, Coastal Carolina University, Conway, SC, 29528, USA

    Shaowu Bao

  3. School of Communication, Rutgers University, New Brunswick, NJ, 08901, USA

    Vivek Singh

  4. College of Engineering and Computer Science, Florida Atlantic University, Boca Raton, FL, 33431, USA

    Jason Hallstrom

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Kumar, S.A.P., Bao, S., Singh, V. et al. Flooding disaster resilience information framework for smart and connected communities. J Reliable Intell Environ 5, 3–15 (2019). https://doi.org/10.1007/s40860-019-00073-2

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