AGORA: a geospatial open collaborative architecture for building resilience against disasters and climate change impacts in vulnerable communities

• Grant number: 12/18675-1
• Support Opportunities: Scholarships abroad - Research
• Start date: February 01, 2013
• End date: January 31, 2014
• Field of knowledge: Physical Sciences and Mathematics - Computer Science - Computing Methodologies and Techniques
• Principal Investigator: João Porto de Albuquerque
• Grantee: João Porto de Albuquerque
• Host Investigator: Alexander Zipf
• Host Institution: Instituto de Ciências Matemáticas e de Computação (ICMC). Universidade de São Paulo (USP). São Carlos , SP, Brazil
• Institution abroad: Heidelberg University, Germany
• Associated research grant: 08/58161-1 - Assessment of impacts and vulnerability to climate change in Brazil and strategies for adaptation option, AP.PFPMCG.TEM

Abstract

Recent years have seen increasing attention given to environmental hazards and their potential impact in terms of natural disasters, especially as the frequency of disasters has steadily grown. Furthermore, projected climate change is expected to accentuate this tendency even more. Consequently, it is increasingly important to develop community-based approaches to improve community resilience, i.e. to improve the capacity of communities to resist, change or adapt to get a new level of functioning or structure in the occurrence of disasters and extreme events. AGORA addresses this challenge by proposing an approach based on web-based collaborative software platforms for leveraging the local knowledge of citizens in environmental monitoring in order to build resilience against disasters and climate change effects. AGORA will provide a participative development methodology supported by a customizable software framework to build service-oriented software platforms that are able to manage different types of information: official information, real-time status of sensors, and citizen-generated Volunteer Geographic Information (VGI). (AU)

Scientific publications

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(References retrieved automatically from Web of Science and SciELO through information on FAPESP grants and their corresponding numbers as mentioned in the publications by the authors)

DE ALBUQUERQUE, JOAO PORTO; HERFORT, BENJAMIN; BRENNING, ALEXANDER; ZIPF, ALEXANDER. A geographic approach for combining social media and authoritative data towards identifying useful information for disaster management. INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF GEOGRAPHICAL INFORMATION SCIENCE, v. 29, n. 4, p. 667-689, APR 3 2015. (12/18675-1)

HORITA, FLAVIO E. A.; LINK, DANIEL; DE ALBUQUERQUE, JOAO PORTO; HELLINGRATH, BERND; BUI, TX; SPRAGUE, RH. oDMN: An Integrated Model to Connect Decision-Making Needs to Emerging Data Sources in Disaster Management. PROCEEDINGS OF THE 49TH ANNUAL HAWAII INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE ON SYSTEM SCIENCES (HICSS 2016), v. N/A, p. 10-pg., 2016-01-01. (12/18675-1)

DE ALBUQUERQUE, JOAO PORTO; CHRIST, MARCEL; SPRAGUE, RH. Business processes as sociomaterial networks: exploring the multiple dimensions of flexibility in process modeling. 2014 47TH HAWAII INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE ON SYSTEM SCIENCES (HICSS), v. N/A, p. 10-pg., 2014-01-01. (12/18675-1, 11/23274-3)

LINK, DANIEL; HORITA, FLAVIO E. A.; DE ALBUQUERQUE, JOAO PORTO; HELLINGRATH, BERND; GHASEMIVANDHONARYAR, SHABDIZ; ASSOC INFORMAT SYST. A Method Extracting Task-related Information from Social Media based on Structured Domain Knowledge. AMCIS 2015 PROCEEDINGS, v. N/A, p. 16-pg., 2015-01-01. (08/58161-1, 12/18675-1)

HORITA, FLAVIO E. A.; DE ALBUQUERQUE, JOAO PORTO; DEGROSSI, LIVIA C.; MENDIONDO, EDUARDO M.; UEYAMA, JO. Development of a spatial decision support system for flood risk management in Brazil that combines volunteered geographic information with wireless sensor networks. Computers & Geosciences, v. 80, p. 84-94, JUL 2015. (12/22550-0, 08/58161-1, 12/18675-1)

HORITA, FLAVIO E. A.; DEGROSSI, LIVIA C.; ASSIS, LUIZ F. F. G.; ZIPF, ALEXANDER; DE ALBUQUERQUE, JOAO PORTO; ASSOC INFORMAT SYST. The use of Volunteered Geographic Information and Crowdsourcing in Disaster Management: a Systematic Literature Review. AMCIS 2013 PROCEEDINGS, v. N/A, p. 10-pg., 2013-01-01. (12/18675-1, 11/23274-3)