Designing intelligent disaster prediction models and systems for debris-flow disasters in Taiwan

Rainfall thresholds for the occurrence of debris flows in the Jiangjia Gully, Yunnan Province, China

“…Numerous studies have analyzed the empirical relationship between rainfall and debris flow occurrences, proposing various critical thresholds and equations for different regions. For example, studies were A C C E P T E D M A N U S C R I P T ACCEPTED MANUSCRIPT 5 conducted near San Francisco, CA, USA (Baum and Godt 2010), wildfire-prone areas in the western USA (Cannon et al 2008), the Alps in Europe (Guzzetti et al 2007), Taiwan Shieh et al 2009;Kung et al 2012), Hong Kong (Chan et al 2003) and the Xiaojiang-Anning river basin in China (Tan and Duan 1995;Fei et al 2005;Cui et al 2008;Hu et al 2010). However, the agencies responsible for implementing safety protocols generally lack the necessary resources for the provision of continuous support or expansion of services to other areas due to variation in local geological conditions.…”

Mobile storage augmentation in mobile cloud computing: Taxonomy, approaches, and open issues

“…Mobile Network Operators (MNO), stationary computers in public places as well as authorized MNO dealers, computing kiosks, and mobile devices are among other resources that have a server role and offers storage services to storage-constrained mobile devices [16]. Amazon S3, 1 Amazon EBS, 2 HP Cloud Object Storage, 3 and HP Cloud Block Storage 4 are well-known instances of storage services offered via the public cloud. In peer-to-peer architecture, mobile devices are both a provider and consumer of services in a decentralized autonomous network of proximate non-stationary devices that form a mobile storage service.…”

“…Analysys Mason's report [1] forecasts 6.3 times growth of mobile data volume traffic amid 2013 and 2018. One reason, among the bevy of inducements is the exploitation of mobile devices in various critical domains of healthcare [2], disaster recovery [3], and education [4]. The voluminous and rapidly generated data in various modalities, which is known as big data [5], demands high capacity, flexible, and reliable storage infrastructure.…”

Identifying correctness data scheme for aggregating data in cluster heads of wireless sensor network based on naive Bayes classification

“…Wireless sensor network (WSN) refers to a set of spatially dispersed and dedicated sensors for recording and monitoring the physical conditions and organizing the data collected at a central location [1,2]. WSNs are a low-cost network that is widely used in numerous applications [3][4][5].…”