Entropy Analysis of Social Unrest after Large Urban Infrastructure Accidents
Publication: ASCE Inspire 2023
ABSTRACT
The paper describes a new approach to quantifying social unrest that occurs after an accident or natural disaster associated with the loss of operation of urban life support infrastructure. This innovative framework based on social networks’ statistics: (1) allows real time monitoring of the relationship between the material and non-material parameters (between physical consequences of an STS accident and the behavior and mood of the society that uses the services provided by this STS); (2) provides tools for constructing dynamic probability density functions (PDFs) that permit description of the evolution of social differential entropy after the disaster; and (3) provides a correlation between measurable damage to cyber-physical infrastructure (CPI) and poorly measurable (intangible) social damage to the community. This work contributes to (1) accurate assessing the restoration of the resilience of a community exposed to hazards; and (2) competent socio-economic elimination of the consequences of urban accidents by the city decision-makers.
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ASCE Inspire 2023
Pages: 631 - 639
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Published online: Nov 14, 2023
ASCE Technical Topics:
- Accidents
- Business management
- Disaster risk management
- Disasters and hazards
- Engineering fundamentals
- Engineering mechanics
- Entropy methods
- Infrastructure
- Material mechanics
- Material properties
- Materials engineering
- Mathematics
- Parameters (statistics)
- Practice and Profession
- Public administration
- Public health and safety
- Social factors
- Statistics
- Thermodynamics
- Urban and regional development
- Urban areas
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