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Mitigation using Emergent Technologies

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Improving Disaster Resilience and Mitigation - IT Means and Tools

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Mitigation is the effort to reduce loss of life and property by lessening the impact of disasters. In this paper we discuss a communication network for crisis situations based on smart phones. A special icon language enables users to report about their position and context situation and to receive information how to reach safe areas. Messages are ordered by the intensity of the emotional content. Users can be tracked by their GPS position and this information is used as input of a special dynamic routing algorithm based on ideas from Artificial Life, called Ant Based Control.

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  1. Intelligent Interaction, Delft University of Technology, Mekelweg 4, 2628 CD, Delft, The Netherlands

    Leon J. M. Rothkrantz

  2. SEWACO, The Netherlands Defence Academy, Het Nieuwe Diep 8, 1781 AC, Den Helder, The Netherlands

    Leon J. M. Rothkrantz

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  1. Institute of Computer Science and ‘Gheorghe Asachi’ Technical University of Iasi, Iasi, Romania

    Horia-Nicolai Teodorescu

  2. Faculty of Industrial Engineering and Management, Samuel Neaman Institute for Advanced Studies,Technion – Israel Institute of Technology, Haifa, Israel

    Alan Kirschenbaum

  3. Institute of Mathematics and Computer Science of the Academy of Sciences of Moldova, Chisinau, Moldova

    Svetlana Cojocaru

  4. Department of Global Health and Populati, Harvard University, Cambridge, Massachusetts, USA

    Claude Bruderlein

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Rothkrantz, L.J.M. (2014). Mitigation using Emergent Technologies. In: Teodorescu, HN., Kirschenbaum, A., Cojocaru, S., Bruderlein, C. (eds) Improving Disaster Resilience and Mitigation - IT Means and Tools. NATO Science for Peace and Security Series C: Environmental Security. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-017-9136-6_13

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