Dynamics of Disasters

1. Front Matter

   Pages i-xiv

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2. Drone Routing for Post-disaster Damage Assessment

   • Birce Adsanver, Elvin Coban, Burcu Balcik

   Pages 1-29

3. DEA for the Assessment of Regions’ Ability to Cope with Disasters

   • Fuad Aleskerov, Sergey Demin

   Pages 31-37

4. The Crisis Classification Component to Strengthen the Early Warning, Risk Assessment and Decision Support in Extreme Climate Events

   • Gerasimos Antzoulatos, Anastasios Karakostas, Stefanos Vrochidis, Ioannis Kompatsiaris

   Pages 39-66

5. Toward Decentralized Decision-Making for Interdependent Infrastructure Network Resilience

   • Buket Cilali, Nafiseh Ghorbani-Renani, Kash Barker, Andrés D. González

   Pages 67-92

6. Wavelets in Multi-Scale Time Series Analysis: An Application to Seismic Data

   • Stefania Corsaro, Pasquale Luigi De Angelis, Ugo Fiore, Zelda Marino, Francesca Perla, Mariafortuna Pietroluongo

   Pages 93-100

7. Effectiveness of Investments in Prevention of Geological Disasters

   • Ugo Fiore, Zelda Marino, Francesca Perla, Mariafortuna Pietroluongo, Salvatore Scognamiglio, and Paolo Zanetti

   Pages 101-108

8. Cyber Crises and Disaster Preparation in Austria: A Survey of Research Projects

   • Bernhard Garn, Klaus Kieseberg, Dominik Schreiber, Dimitris E. Simos

   Pages 109-121

9. Disaster Preparedness at the Municipality Level: A Scenario-Based Multistage Measurement Methodology

   • Mehdi Ghazanfari, Mohammadmehdi Hakimifar, Tina Wakolbinger, Fuminori Toyasaki

   Pages 123-145

10. Development of Flood Disaster Prevention Simulation Smartphone Application Using Gamification

    • Yutaka Matsuno, Futaba Fukanuma, Shigenobu Tsuruoka

    Pages 147-159

11. Natural Disasters and Their Impact on Business Units: The Greek Case

    • John A. Mpekiaris, George D. Tsiotras

    Pages 161-171

12. Perishable Food Supply Chain Networks with Labor in the Covid-19 Pandemic

    • Anna Nagurney

    Pages 173-193

13. Capacitated Human Migration Networks and Subsidization

    • Anna Nagurney, Patrizia Daniele, Giorgia Cappello

    Pages 195-217

14. Land Property Data Logging on Blockchain Ledger

    • Stamatis Papangelou, Zinos Alexios Charalampidis

    Pages 219-227

15. Universal Maximum Flow with Intermediate Storage for Evacuation Planning

    • Urmila Pyakurel, Stephan Dempe

    Pages 229-241

16. A General Framework and Control Theoretic Approach for Adaptive Interactive Learning Environments

    • Alexander Streicher, Rainer Schönbein, Stefan Wolfgang Pickl

    Pages 243-257

17. A Simulation Model for the Analysis of the Consequences of Extreme Weather Conditions to the Traffic Status of the City of Thessaloniki, Greece

    • Georgios Tsaples, Josep Maria Salanova Grau, Georgia Aifadopoulou, Panagiotis Tzenos

    Pages 259-272

Based on the “Fourth International Conference on Dynamics of Disasters” (Kalamata, Greece, July 2019), this volume includes contributions from experts who share their latest discoveries on natural and unnatural disasters. Authors provide overviews of the tactical points involved in disaster relief, outlines of hurdles from mitigation and preparedness to response and recovery, and uses for mathematical models to describe natural and man-made disasters. Topics covered include economics, optimization, machine learning, government, management, business, humanities, engineering, medicine, mathematics, computer science, behavioral studies, emergency services, and environmental studies will engage readers from a wide variety of fields and backgrounds.

• evacuation planning
• flood prevention
• gamification
• global resilience network
• severe weather conditions
• disaster coping
• traffic extreme weather conditions

• Department of Physics & Computer Science, Wilfrid Laurier University, Waterloo, Canada

  Ilias S. Kotsireas

• Isenberg School of Management, University of Massachusetts Amherst , Amherst, USA

  Anna Nagurney

• Department of Industrial and Systems Engineering, University of Florida, Gainesville, USA

  Panos M. Pardalos

• University of Florida, Gainesville, USA

  Arsenios Tsokas

Ilias S. Kotsireas serves as a full professor of Computer Science at Wilfrid Laurier University in Waterloo, Ontario, Canada. In 2002 he founded the CARGO Lab, and serves as its director for more than 15 years. He has over 150 refereed journal and conference publications, chapters in books, edited books and special issues of journals, in the research areas of Computational Algebra, Metaheuristics, High-Performance Computing, Dynamical Systems and Combinatorial Design Theory. He serves on the Editorial Board of 7 international journals. He serves as the Managing Editor of a Springer journal and as the Editor-in-Chief of a Springer journal and a Birkhauser book series. He has organized a very large number of international conferences in Europe, North America and Asia, often serving as a Program Committee Chair or General Chair. His research is and has been funded by NSERC, the European Union and the National Natural Science Foundation of China (NSFC). He served as Chair of the ACM Special Interest Group on Symbolic Computation (SIGSAM) on a 4-year term: July 2013 to July 2017. He is a co-chair of the Applications of Computer Algebra Working Group (ACA WG), a group of 45 internationally renowned researchers that oversee the organization of the ACA conference series. He has delivered more than 10 invited/plenary talks at conferences around the world.


Anna Nagurney is the John F. Smith Memorial Professor in the Department of Operations and Information Management at the Isenberg School of Management at the University of Massachusetts Amherst and is also the Founding Director of the Virtual Center for Supernetworks. Anna received her AB, ScB, ScM, and PhD degrees from Brown University in Providence, Rhode Island. She is the author/co-author of over 190 refereed journal articles and 14 books and has been recognized for her research with honors and awards, including being elected an INFORMS Fellow in 2013 and an RSAI Fellow in 2007.  She is the recipient of a 2016 INFORMS Volunteer Service Award for Distinguished Service,  the 2007 WORMS Award,  and the 2005 Moving Spirit Award of INFORMS. Anna has held a variety of visiting positions, including being a Science Fellow at the Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study at Harvard University,  a Visiting Fellow at All Souls College at Oxford University in the UK, a Visiting Professor at the University of Gothenburg and at the Royal Institute of Technology in Sweden. She has also been a Fulbrighter twice – in Austria and Italy and her research has received support from the National Science Foundation and the Rockefeller Foundation.



Panos M. Pardalos serves as distinguished professor of industrial and systems engineering at the University of Florida. Additionally, he is the Paul and Heidi Brown Preeminent Professor of industrial and systems engineering. Pardalos is also an affiliated faculty member of the computer and information science department, the Hellenic Studies Center, and the biomedical engineering program. Additionally, he serves as the director of the Center for Applied Optimization. Pardalos is a world leading expert in global and combinatorial optimization. His recent research interests include network design problems, optimization in telecommunications, e-commerce, data mining, biomedical applications, and massive computing. Pardalos is a prolific author who lectures all over the world. He is the recipient of a multitude of fellowships and awards, the most recent of which is the Humboldt Research Award (2018).

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