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| Current Research | |
| Major definite purpose of my research career is to reduce the chaos during the emergency situations. While my education up to masters degree followed by the professional research experience laid foundation for understanding of various environmental challenges, the current PhD program at DA-IICT, involves the coursework that provides the familiarity with basic tools and techniques in Information and communication technology (ICT) to "deal" with these challenges. Hence, my current research is amalgamation of technologies of multiple disciplines. Following is the brief account of my research interest in individual building blocks | |
| Disaster Management | |
| With
increased vulnerability, costs and multitudes of effects of disasters,
Disaster Management has become mandatory for any organization
body. While this process is becoming more refined, the recent
experiences suggest lots of issues remains to be unsolved. The
co-ordination between the respondents and victims is causing
challenges due to adverse impact of disasters. Management of
Resources, Co-ordination, communication, collaborative decision
making, emergency alters, command and control remains to be difficult
as disasters crosses the administrative boundaries.
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| Geographical information Systems | |
| GIS
is one of the most important technology being extensively deployed by
almost any type of organizations for managing their activities spanned
in spatial dimension. Analysis and Visualization provides grater
decision making capability to GIS by detecting spatial and
temporal changes in the database. The data being utilized
can be created, maintained and distributed by diverse organization for
various purposes. This introduces the challenge of interoperability of
amongst the spatial database.
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| Data Warehousing | |
| With
advancement in sensor technology, capability to record various
environmental parameters is now being enhanced. More and more
information is being electronically register with appropriate update
frequency. This has created challenge to management of data being
recorded by various sources for various purposes. Extract, Transform
and Load (ETL) covers set of techniques developed for management of
large datasets.
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| Emergency Communication | |
| Communicating
relevant information in timely fashion is essential underlying
requirement for any disaster management practice. Hence the emergency
communication technology is one of the major focus area for the
researchers. This involves the emergency alert systems, Risk
perception and visualization and the main and alternative
communication technology to carry the message to the targeted audiences.
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| Distributed Computing | |
| With
advent of mobile communication technology and miniaturization of
computing systems the user base has increased to a large number. This
situation has created a demand of all the possible applications on
a mobile hand-held instruments which were previously
possible only on a desktop. The client server architecture is soon
replaced by the n-tier architecture and now moving towards service
computing paradigm. In disaster management context, after the availability
navigation and mobile mapping on hand-held devices, the research focus
in now concentrated towards improving the geo-processing and
analytical capability on the resource constrained computing
environment.
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| Combination of above all | |
| All
the research areas listed above have remained isolated for a long
time, but now the boundaries amongst them is disappearing very
quickly. This sections provide information about research being
carried out with it's root in more then a single discipline listed
above.
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| Past Projects | |
| Publication | |
| Vikram Sorathia, Zakir Laliwala and Sanjay Chaudhary,"Towards Agricultural Marketing Reforms: Web Services Orchestration Approach" , IEEE International Conference on Services Computing (SCC 2005) to be held during July 12-15, 2005 at Orlando, Florida, USA | |
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