8 papers
DisastQA: A Comprehensive Benchmark for Evaluating Question Answering in Disaster Management
Zhitong Chen, Kai Yin, Xiangjue Dong +7
Accurate question answering (QA) in disaster management requires reasoning over uncertain and conflicting information, a setting poorly captured by existing benchmarks built on cle…
Quantifying Functional Criticality of Lifelines Through Mobility-Derived Population-Facility Dependence for Human-Centered Resilience
Junwei Ma, Bo Li, Xiangpeng Li +2
Lifeline infrastructure underpins the continuity of daily life, yet conventional criticality assessments remain largely asset-centric, inferring importance from physical capacity o…
Decoupling Urban Food Accessibility Resilience during Disasters through Time-Series Analysis of Human Mobility and Power Outages
Junwei Ma, Bo Li, Xiangpeng Li +1
Disaster-induced power outages create cascading disruptions across urban lifelines, yet the timed coupling between grid failure and essential service access remains poorly quantifi…
Disaster Management in the Era of Agentic AI Systems: A Vision for Collective Human-Machine Intelligence for Augmented Resilience
Bo Li, Junwei Ma, Kai Yin +3
The escalating frequency and severity of disasters routinely overwhelm traditional response capabilities, exposing critical vulnerability in disaster management. Current practices…
Quantifying the Social Costs of Power Outages and Restoration Disparities Across Four U.S. Hurricanes
Xiangpeng Li, Junwei Ma, Bo Li +1
The multifaceted nature of disaster impact shows that densely populated areas contribute more to aggregate burden, while sparsely populated but heavily affected regions suffer disp…
Estimating Deprivation Cost Functions for Power Outages During Disasters: A Discrete Choice Modeling Approach
Xiangpeng Li, Mona Ahmadiani, Richard Woodward +3
Systems for the generation and distribution of electrical power represents critical infrastructure and, when extreme weather events disrupt such systems, this imposes substantial c…