Mobile devices are rapidly evolving into multifunction devices that can access a broad range of services with location-aware features such as navigation services. These services require a mobile device to know the user’s ...

Many large infrastructure projects around the world significantly exceed their budgets and take longer than expected to complete. The cost overruns and delays in such projects cause significant economic and social challenges ...

Accidental and deliberate loads on civil and military structures continue to cause severe damage worldwide, along with catastrophic losses of human life. The significance of this problem is evidenced by high government ...

Rainfall-runoff models are useful tools in water resource planning under climate change. They are commonly used to quantify the impact of changes in climatic variables, such as rainfall, on water availability for human ...

Social networks now rank amongst the worlds most popular websites. Academics and industry alike recognise opportunities provided by the vast quantities of user-generated content. Opportunistically harvesting information ...

Innovation is at the heart of today’s competitive economy. The infrastructure industry of a nation plays a crucial role in its economic development and having understood innovation, and its impact is very important in the ...

Upon sudden occurrence of disasters such as fire, earthquakes, or floods, evacuation is the first and foremost needs to get people out of the disaster area. Context awareness and time awareness is of significant importance ...

The reliance on location and location based services in everyday life is undergoing tremendous growth as society progresses towards an increasingly connected world. Location awareness plays an important role in many ...

The short response time that obtains for rapid onset disasters (such as floods, storms and bushfires) necessitates the fast and coordinated actions of several actors. Numerous agencies that might or might not be established ...

As cities grapple with impacts of urban heat and heatwaves, exacerbated by climate change, integrating green spaces contributes to cooling cities, as well as providing many other benefits. These benefits include biophysical ...