Intelligent Disaster Management and Green Computing in the Big Data Era: Policies, Perspectives and Prospects

Abstract

Intelligent disaster management and green computing constitute rapidly expanding research areas spanning the fields of soft computing, environmental technologies, computer science, engineering and information management. The explosion of Open and Big Data have given rise to new opportunities for understanding and solving formerly intractable environmental and disaster management challenges. The use of Big Data has now been mainstraimed into all recent trends in computing and engineering as well different disciplinary fields such as computational biology, disaster response, healthcare, social networks, finance, transportation and telecommunications. This special issue provides a unique and powerful vehicle for disseminating the latest research dealing with intelligent disaster management and green computing research, development, applications and its intelligence. The rise of Big and Open Data-and the ease with which scientists, communities, thought leaders and decision makers can access it-redefining how governments, civil society and the private sector operate. References to Big and Open Data have grown exponentially over in the past several years, and examples of big data abound, giving rise to a new philosophy of 'open-source environmental governance and disaster management', that promotes a linkage between the principles of the disaster science, green computing and open-source and open-content movements. This set of distinguished eighteen papers strengthens interdisciplinary linkages between the fields of green computing and disaster science investigates current gaps in environmental technologies and and the opening of new research directions in the era of Big and Open Data era. Rather than separating the engineering technologies from its 'real world' impact, those contributing to this special issue have demonstrated attention to the issues of societal resilience, environmental governance and disaster risk reduction and that their work informs. Accordingly, this special issue helps 3C Tecnología. Glosas de innovación aplicadas a la pyme.