Data-driven evacuation and rescue traffic optimization with rescue contraflow control
March 2024
In response to local sudden disasters, e.g., high-rise office or residential building fire disasters, road occupation can cause conflicts, and traffic directions may be opposite between evacuation vehicles...
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Exploring the correlation between temperature and crime: A case-crossover study of eight cities in America
March 2024
Recent years have seen increasing academic interest in exploring the correlation between temperature and crime. However, it is uncertain whether similar long-term trends or seasonality (rather than...
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Single image defogging via multi-exposure image fusion and detail enhancement
March 2024
Outdoor cameras play an important role in monitoring security and social governance. As a common weather phenomenon, haze can easily affect the quality of camera shooting, resulting in loss and distortion...
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Secure and resilient improved image steganography using hybrid fuzzy neural network with fuzzy logic
March 2024
The exponential growth in communication networks, data technology, advanced libraries, and mainly World Wide Web services has played a pivotal role in facilitating the retrieval of various types of...
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A social computing method for energy safety
March 2024
Information and communication technologies enable the transformation of traditional energy systems into cyber-physical energy systems (CPESs), but such systems have also become popular targets of cyberattacks....
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A model for aircraft cabin evacuation considering passenger type
March 2024
Pedestrian safety evacuation in aircraft cabins has been a challenging problem because of the aircraft's unique characteristics, such as the diversity of passengers and the restricted evacuation environment....
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Restimate: Recovery Estimation Tool for Resilience Planning
March 2024
The U.S. National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) published the Community Resilience Planning Guide in 2016. The NIST Guide advocates for a participatory process for developing a performance...
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E-voting system using cloud-based hybrid blockchain technology
March 2024
With the invention of Internet-enabled devices, cloud and blockchain-based technologies, an online voting system can smoothly carry out election processes. During pandemic situations, citizens tend...
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A probabilistic model based on the peak-over-threshold approach for risk assessment of airport controllers' performance
March 2024
Airport tower control plays an instrumental role in ensuring airport safety. However, obtaining objective, quantitative safety evaluations is challenging due to the unavailability of pertinent human...
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Dynamic risk assessment of gas pipeline operation process by fusing visual and olfactory monitoring
Available online 17 March 2024
•A dynamic risk assessment method by fusing visual and olfactory elements was proposed.•Visual-olfactory fused model has higher accuracy than single monitoring.•A visual risk model integrating visual...
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AI for Science: Predicting Infectious Diseases
Available online 15 March 2024
The global health landscape has been persistently challenged by the emergence and re-emergence of infectious diseases. Traditional epidemiological models, rooted in the early 20th century, have provided...
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Exploring Innovative Techniques for Damage Control During Natural Disasters
Available online 14 March 2024
The study critically examines the principles, mechanisms, and effectiveness of different damage control techniques in dealing with natural disasters, emphasizing their pivotal role in minimizing casualties...
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Unsupervised Intrusion Detection System for In-Vehicle Communication Networks
Available online 22 February 2024
In-vehicle communication has been optimized day to day to keep updated of the technologies. Control area network (CAN) is used as a standard communication method because of its efficient and reliable...
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TSE-Tran: Prediction method of telecommunication-network fraud crime based on time series representation and transformer
December 2023
Telecom network fraud has become the most common and concerning type of crime and is an important public security incident that threatens urban resilience. Therefore, preventing a continuous rise in...
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AIGC challenges and opportunities related to public safety: A case study of ChatGPT
December 2023
Artificial intelligence generated content (AIGC) is a production method based on artificial intelligence (AI) technology that finds rules through data and automatically generates content. In contrast...
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Civil gas energy accidents in China from 2012–2021
December 2023
•Time and location distribution characteristics of 6063 gas accidents were analysed.•Causes, types and their correlations of 2746 gas accidents were analysed.•Proposed grade classification method for...
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Data-driven sparse polynomial chaos expansion for models with dependent inputs
December 2023
Polynomial chaos expansions (PCEs) have been used in many real-world engineering applications to quantify how the uncertainty of an output is propagated from inputs by decomposing the output in terms...
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Underground storage tank blowout analysis: Stability prediction using an artificial neural network
December 2023
Most geotechnical stability research is linked to “active” failures, in which soil instability occurs due to soil self-weight and external surcharge applications. In contrast, research on passive failure...
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Resilience assessment model for urban public transportation systems based on structure and function
December 2023
Urbanization and the increasing frequency of extreme climates affect the sustainability of urban public transportation systems, and improving resilience is one of the primary directions for sustainable...
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Blockchain for public safety: A survey of techniques and applications
December 2023
As an emerging technology, blockchain provides a range of advantages, such as decentralized and transparent data storage, secure access control, and enhanced data traceability. However, it is rarely...
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Artificial intelligence empowering research on loneliness, depression and anxiety — Using Covid-19 as an opportunity
December 2023
The COVID-19 pandemic has had a profound impact on public mental health, leading to a surge in loneliness, depression, and anxiety. And these public psychological issues increasingly become a factor...
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Re-emergence of Ebola virus disease in Uganda: Should Southeast Asia countries be worried?
September 2023
An outbreak of Ebola virus disease (EVD) (Sudan virus) was first reported in the Republic of Uganda on September 20, 2022. As of November 17, 2022, 151 confirmed cases have been reported, including...
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A study on predicting crisis information dissemination in epidemic-level public health events
September 2023
Crisis information dissemination plays a key role in the development of emergency responses to epidemic-level public health events. Therefore, clarifying the causes of crisis information dissemination...
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Data-driven decision-making model for determining the number of volunteers required in typhoon disasters
September 2023
Volunteer teams provide valuable support after large-scale disasters. However, excessive volunteer participation poses challenges for formal operations. Therefore, an appropriate decision-making method...
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Readiness of financial resilience in start-ups
September 2023
Financial resilience refers to a start-up's capacity to anticipate, plan for, respond to, and adapt to gradual change and abrupt unforeseen shocks to survive and thrive by enacting appropriate economic...
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