All Outputs (5)

A Review of the Disaster Risk Assessment Perspectives (2023)
Book Chapter
Munasinghe, D., Fernando, T., Keraminiyage, K., & Karunawardena, A. (2023). A Review of the Disaster Risk Assessment Perspectives. In Progress in Landslide Research and Technology, Volume 2 Issue 2, 2023 (323-340). Springer. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-44296-4_18

Researchers have explored different risk assessment approaches from the perspectives of different disciplines to capture urban risks, resulting in many risk assessment frameworks. In these frameworks, the risk environment is analysed using different... Read More about A Review of the Disaster Risk Assessment Perspectives.

Supporting risk assessment in building resilient cities (2017)
Book Chapter
Fernando, T., & Alzahmi, M. (2017). Supporting risk assessment in building resilient cities. In P. Brandon, P. Lombardi, & G. Shen (Eds.), Future Challenges in Evaluating and Managing Sustainable Development in the Built Environment (155-163). Wiley. https://doi.org/10.1002/9781119190691.ch9

In the past century, the occurrence of natural disasters and man‐made disasters has steadily increased with a significant loss of life, damage to infrastructure and property and destruction of the environment. Therefore creation of resilient cities i... Read More about Supporting risk assessment in building resilient cities.

Collaborative telepresence workspaces for space operation and science (2015)
Book Chapter
Roberts, D., Garcia Jimenez, A., Dodiya, J., Wolff, R., Fairchild, A., & Fernando, T. (2015). Collaborative telepresence workspaces for space operation and science. In T. Hollerer, V. Interrante, A. Lecuyer, & J. Swan (Eds.), 2015 IEEE VIRTUAL REALITY CONFERENCE (275-276). Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers. https://doi.org/10.1109/VR.2015.7223402

We introduce the collaborative telepresence workspaces for SPACE operation and science that are under development in the European research project CROSS DRIVE. The vision is to give space mission controllers and scientists the impression of “beaming... Read More about Collaborative telepresence workspaces for space operation and science.

IT Infrastructure for Supporting Multidisciplinary Urban Planning (2009)
Book Chapter
Fernando, T., Aouad, G., Fu, C., & Yao, J. (2009). IT Infrastructure for Supporting Multidisciplinary Urban Planning. In R. Cooper, G. Evans, & C. Boyko (Eds.), Designing Sustainable Cities (242-262). London: John Wiley and Sons Ltd

Urban planning is a complex and multidisciplinary decision-making process which concerns with the complex management of change within the built and natural environment that aims to plan the urban environment in terms of its physical, social, legal, e... Read More about IT Infrastructure for Supporting Multidisciplinary Urban Planning.

Analysis of knowledge creation, aggregation and sharing processes within communities of practice (2007)
Book Chapter
Mihindu, S., & Fernando, T. (2007). Analysis of knowledge creation, aggregation and sharing processes within communities of practice. In WorldComp2007 International Conference on Information and Knowledge Engineering (3-10). Monte Carlo Resort, Las Vegas, Nevada, USA: CSREA Press

Knowledge Management (KM) has been a widely received area for research and development for many decades. However combining the full Knowledge Management Cycle; knowledge capture, development, sharing and utilisation within the same infrastructure has... Read More about Analysis of knowledge creation, aggregation and sharing processes within communities of practice.