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  title info:
    title: Natural Disasters, When Will They Reach Me?
  name:
    name part: Wijesundera, Isuri.
    role:
      role term: creator
    role:
      role term: author.
  name:
    name part: Halgamuge, Malka N.
    role:
      role term: author.
  name:
    name part: Nanayakkara, Thrishantha.
    role:
      role term: author.
  name:
    name part: Nirmalathas, Thas.
    role:
      role term: author.
  name:
    name part: SpringerLink (Online service)
  type of resource: text
  origin info:
    place:
      place term: si
    date issued: 2016
    issuance: monographic
  language:
    language term: eng
  physical description:
    form: electronic
    form: electronic resource
    reformatting quality: access
    form: remote
    extent: XVIII, 128 p. 46 illus., 37 illus. in color. online resource.
  abstract: The expected time of impact, also known as the mean first passage time (MFPT) to reach failure, is a critical metric in the management of natural disasters. The complexity of the dynamics governing natural disasters lead to stochastic behaviour. This book shows that state transitions of many such systems translate into random walks on their respective state spaces, biased and shaped by environmental inhomogeneity. Thus the probabilistic treatment of those random walks gives valuable insights of expected behaviour. A comprehensive case study of predicting cyclone induced flood is followed by a discussion of generic methods that predict MFPT addressing directional bias. This is followed by discussing MFPT prediction methods in systems showing network inhomogeneity. All presented methods are illustrated using real datasets of natural disasters. The book ends with a short discussion of possible future research areas introducing the problem of predicting MFPT for bush-fire propagation.
  table of contents: The stochastic nature of disaster propagation -- Predicting Flood induced by cyclones -- How to forecast the spread of bushfires -- Propagation on a non-homogeneous media in the presence of bias -- Conclusion.
  note: by Isuri Wijesundera, Malka N. Halgamuge, Thrishantha Nanayakkara, Thas Nirmalathas.
  subject:
    topic: Earth sciences
  subject:
    topic: Natural disasters
  subject:
    topic: Computers
  subject:
    topic: Computer simulation
  subject:
    topic: Environmental sciences
  subject:
    topic: Earth Sciences
  subject:
    topic: Natural Hazards
  subject:
    topic: Simulation and Modeling
  subject:
    topic: Environmental Monitoring/Analysis
  subject:
    topic: Information Systems and Communication Service
  subject:
    topic: Math. Appl. in Environmental Science
  classification: GB5000-5030
  classification: 551
  related item:
    title info:
      title: Springer eBooks
  related item:
    title info:
      title: Springer Natural Hazards
  identifier: 9789811011139
  identifier: http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-981-10-1113-9
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    record creation date: 160516
    record change date: 20160523200106.0
    record identifier: 978-981-10-1113-9