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During a productive week, insightful discussions took place in Amsterdam and Enschede.

On behalf of the members of our alliance, I would like to express our sorrow with deepest sympathy to the family, and friends.

World Alliance on Digitalization for Disaster & Emergency Management (WADDEM: waddem.com) is an alliance aiming at managing disasters and emergency conditions through digitization.

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Disasters can have devastating impacts on communities and economies, underscoring the urgent need for effective strategic disaster risk management (DRM).

ADOPTS: A New Paradigm in Disaster Management

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ADOPTS consists of six complementary phases:

Space Research and Technology Institute, Bulgarian Academy of Sciences is the applicant of the project, where the Composite Information Technologies BV (Akşit) is one of the 4 partner organizations. 

On October 12, 2023, at 17:30 o’clock, Mehmet Aksit gave a talk at the WEC 2023 Conference (https://www.wec2023.com/). The title of the talk was Disaster Management by Process Automation in Smart Cities. The conference was organized at the Prague Congress Centre.

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Current earthquake management procedures rely heavily on manual methods.

On October 12, 2023, at 17:00 o’clock, Prof. Miroslav Svítek gave a talk at the WEC 2023 Conference (https://www.wec2023.com/). The talk was Digital on Smart Cities. The conference was organized at the Prague Congress Centre.

The topic of the Project is addressing decision-making and advanced management problems  in urban transportation systems. Czech Technical University in Prague is the coordinator of the project. OSTIM Technical university is a partner university from Ankara. Prof. Akbar and Akşit are also involved in the project.

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Emergency management procedures are defined as healing actions to minimize the impact of damages. Various GIS systems have been introduced to provide the necessary facilities for systems that need topology support.

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The emergency instances which are obtained, for example from a dedicated IoT network, are first processed and converted into sets of tasks for aid activities.

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Efficient management of emergencies is crucial in preserving the integrity of critical infrastructures. In the literature, key performance indicators (KPIs) are introduced to measure and improve efficiency of business processes.

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The concept of situation awareness has been studied extensively and applied in several areas such as disaster management.

With a group of members of the academic staff of the University of Malaya, we visited Datuk Khairul Shahril Idrus, the Deputy Director General for post-disaster management, at the Prime Minister's Department.

The main topic of this visit was planning joint activities in developing research strategies, methods, and techniques on disaster management systems.

Mehmet. Akşit visited London: On the 22nd, as a panel member, and on the 23rd gave a seminar at UCL. 
The focus was on automating and optimizing disaster management procedures. Also, presentations were given by the researchers of the UCL.

The program:
21st of June, Bristol University at 11:00 a.m.
22nd of June: IRDR Annual Conference 2023 - Risk Without Borders, at 2:30 p.m.
23rd of June, University College London at 11 a.m.
26th of June British Telecom Research Centre, Martlesham Heath, time to be announced.

Today, with a group of professors from the Universidade Federal de São Carlos, we visited the Crisis Management Center of the Municipality.

Mehmet Akşit visited one of the leading universities the Universidade Federal de São Carlos Brazil, gave a seminar and met several research groups and students for cooperation.

We had the pleasure of welcoming Dr. Saman Ghaffarian from the Institute of Risk and Disaster Reduction, London. Dr.Ghaffarian gave a very interesting talk on ‘Artificial Intelligence and Remote Sensing for Disaster Risk Management’.

The talk was about 'Research Perspectives on Disaster Management Systems'. Akşit had the opportunity to interact with the PhD students and senior researchers.

Trends in Large-Scale Event-Driven System Architectures: An Example Case of Earthquake Management Systems.

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It is a known fact that software systems are playing an increasingly more important role in controlling large-scale processes in our daily life.

The proceeding of the workshop "Software and Earthquake Engineering in Seismic Risk Management (YDMC-2022)" is now available.

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To the best of our knowledge, this is the first academic meeting of its kind where earthquake engineering and software engineering disciplines came together.