Anwer Mustafa Hilal¹, Badria Sulaiman Alfurhood², Fahd N. Al-Wesabi^3,4, Manar Ahmed Hamza^1,*, Mesfer Al Duhayyim⁵, Huda G. Iskandar^4,6

CMC-Computers, Materials & Continua, Vol.71, No.1, pp. 143-157, 2022, DOI:10.32604/cmc.2022.021502

Abstract Smart city promotes the unification of conventional urban infrastructure and information technology (IT) to improve the quality of living and sustainable urban services in the city. To accomplish this, smart cities necessitate collaboration among the public as well as private sectors to install IT platforms to collect and examine massive quantities of data. At the same time, it is essential to design effective artificial intelligence (AI) based tools to handle healthcare crisis situations in smart cities. To offer proficient services to people during healthcare crisis time, the authorities need to look closer towards them. Sentiment analysis (SA) in social networking… More >

Fahd N. Al-Wesabi^1,2,*, Hadeel Alsolai³, Anwer Mustafa Hilal⁴, Manar Ahmed Hamza⁴, Mesfer Al Duhayyim⁵, Noha Negm^6,7

CMC-Computers, Materials & Continua, Vol.70, No.3, pp. 5803-5820, 2022, DOI:10.32604/cmc.2022.021195

Abstract Corona Virus Disease-2019 (COVID-19) was reported at first in Wuhan city, China by December 2019. World Health Organization (WHO) declared COVID-19 as a pandemic i.e., global health crisis on March 11, 2020. The outbreak of COVID-19 pandemic and subsequent lockdowns to curb the spread, not only affected the economic status of a number of countries, but it also resulted in increased levels of Depression, Anxiety, and Stress (DAS) among people. Therefore, there is a need exists to comprehend the relationship among psycho-social factors in a country that is hypothetically affected by high levels of stress and fear; with tremendously-limiting measures… More >

Shaheen Khatoon^1,*, Majed A. Alshamari¹, Amna Asif¹, Md Maruf Hasan¹, Sherif Abdou², Khaled Mostafa Elsayed³, Mohsen Rashwan⁴

CMC-Computers, Materials & Continua, Vol.68, No.3, pp. 3079-3100, 2021, DOI:10.32604/cmc.2021.017371

Abstract Social media platforms have proven to be effective for information gathering during emergency events caused by natural or human-made disasters. Emergency response authorities, law enforcement agencies, and the public can use this information to gain situational awareness and improve disaster response. In case of emergencies, rapid responses are needed to address victims’ requests for help. The research community has developed many social media platforms and used them effectively for emergency response and coordination in the past. However, most of the present deployments of platforms in crisis management are not automated, and their operational success largely depends on experts who analyze… More >