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Akira Kodaka currently works at the Graduate School of System Design and Management, Keio University. Akira does research in Disaster Risk Reduction of Area-BCM, and Systems Engineering.
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Understanding of system requirements that satisfy end users’ needs is fundamental of system development, yet challenging when end users are unable to address their needs explicitly. Although a number of scholars have been designing and applying requirement elicitation techniques, there is a research gap in Spatial Decision Support System (SDSS) wit...
Various interventions were made by the Thai government to prevent the COVID-19 spread by controlling socioeconomic activities, but the effectiveness of these interventions and other factors have not yet been fully clarified. Thus, this study aims to provide further scientific evidence on those potential factors which affect the socioeconomic activi...
From August to October 2024, severe flooding in Northern Thailand, triggered by heavy rains and Typhoon Yagi, caused deaths, injuries, and extensive damage. This preliminary report outlines the disaster timeline, impact, and response actions, including the operations center establishment. The inundation areas are presented using satellite data and...
The 2011 flood in Thailand exposed significant vulnerabilities in industrial areas, highlighting the necessity for enhanced disaster risk management through Area-Business Continuity Management (Area-BCM). This preliminary study focuses on identifying how stakeholders rely on information from each other to improve disaster preparedness and response....
In the event of a crisis, companies in industrial complexes and surrounding regional organizations that share production bases and operating resources need to manage business continuity through coordinated mutual cooperation in public and private sectors, in addition to their individual business continuity plans (BCPs). This framework of collaborat...
การเดินทางท่องเที่ยวเป็นเรื่องสะดวกขึ้นเมื่อข้อมูลข่าวสารเข้ามาเป็นปัจจัยที่สำคัญในการส่งเสริม การตัดสินใจของผู้คน จึงไม่แปลกที่การเดินทางท่องเที่ยวกลายเป็นกิจกรรม หรืองานอดิเรกของผู้คน อย่างไรก็ดีด้วยวิกฤตสถานการณ์โรคระบาดโควิด-19 นั้นได้กระทบกับธุรกิจท่องเที่ยวโดยตรง และส่งผลกระทบเป็นวงกว้าง การเตรียมความพร้อมเพื่อการฟื้นฟูอุตสาหกรรมท่องเที่ยวจึง...
Literature exists on business continuity; however, little exists on the complied experience, especially flood risk. The research also does not cover industrial complex areas using integrated perspectives. Most studies on major business continuity disasters focus on event impacts and the short-term responses and recovery process of enterprises. Some...
Transportation is considered to be one of the main activities of daily life. The COVID-19 pandemic, which had its origin at the end of 2019, restricted the movement of the people due to its deadly impacts. Most governments also had a hand in limiting the mobility of the people through various measures and policies. Thailand was one of the first cou...
There is a growing need to introduce warning dissemination systems in disaster-prone regions to improve the coverage of information distribution. In this study, a warning dissemination system was designed in which disaster information transmitted by a global navigation satellite system (GNSS) is received by terrestrial infrastructure, such as siren...
The impacts of disasters are increasing due to climate change and unplanned urbanization. Big and open data offer considerable potential for analyzing and predicting human mobility during disaster events, including the COVID-19 pandemic, leading to better disaster risk reduction (DRR) planning. However, the value of human mobility data and analysis...
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The impacts of disasters are increasing due to climate change and urbanization. Big and open data offer considerable potential for analyzing and predicting human mobility during disaster events, including the COVID-19 pandemic, leading to be...
The effects of COVID-19 measures on the quantitative changes in atmospheric substances associated with economic activities have been explored in various studies. However, the specific relationship between the changes in economic activities due to government interventions and the associated changes in atmospheric substances remains unclear. This rel...
In the event of a large-scale disaster, the dissemination of audible disaster warning information via sirens is effective in ensuring a rapid response. Sirens can be installed not only on fixed towers, but also on public transport and other vehicles passing through residential areas, and at spots where residents congregate, to increase area coverag...
Alternative data is increasingly utilized for credit evaluation of financially excluded persons. However, requirements, such as reliability, which gain new importance when alternative data is employed for credit evaluation, have not been considered as part of the credit scoring process. This research proposes an approach for incorporating context-s...
Feature selection is crucial to the credit-scoring process, allowing for the removal of irrelevant variables with low predictive power. Conventional credit-scoring techniques treat this as a separate process wherein features are selected based on improving a single statistical measure, such as accuracy; however, recent research has focused on meani...
There has been a growing recognition that a systems thinking approach, which pays attention to the entire dynamic system, its constituent parts and the interactions among those parts, is an effective approach for tackling complex issues that exhibit nonlinear behaviour and involve multiple stakeholders. To understand a complex system, a systems thi...
Credit scoring of financially excluded persons is challenging for financial institutions because of a lack of financial data and long physical distances, which hamper data collection. The remote collection of alternative data has the potential to overcome these challenges, enabling credit access for such individuals. Whereas alternative data source...
The 2011 Thailand Floods heavily impacted 7 industrial complexes, in which 56.7% were Japanese companies. Many notable companies received severe damage until they had to cease their production. Area Business Continuity Management (Area-BCM) implemented in Thailand stems from this disaster which causes both private and public sectors to think about...
Area-Business Continuity Management (Area-BCM) is a new disaster management concept developed by the Japan International Cooperation Agency in 2013. One of the greatest challenges encountered in achieving a successful implementation of Area-BCM is the public–private partnership. Since stakeholder analysis is the key to understanding the complex rel...
Business Continuity Management (BCM) is commonly known as one of the most effective programs to use in the face of crisis, incident, and disaster, specifically for organizations to continue or resume their operations. Over time, the concept has gained popularity and has developed into one of the strategies in a resilience plan. The purpose of this...
The numbers of natural disaster events are continuously affecting human and the world economics. For coping with disaster, several sectors try to develop the frameworks, systems, technologies and so on. However, there are little researches focusing on the usage behavior of Information Technology (IT) for disaster risk management (DRM). Therefore, t...
Cross-sectional communication for data sharing among multiple stakeholders involved in disaster responses is one of the fundamental non-structural measures that directly influence the performance of disaster risk reduction. Taking the event of the 2008 Cyclone Nargis as the watershed experience, Myanmar has been developing a nationwide disaster ris...
In July-August 2015, massive floods caused extensive and severe damage throughout Myanmar. We investigated the disaster response of the Myanmar government, prevailing weather conditions, and river infrastructure function in the Bago River Basin. We found that disaster risk reduction was managed through the Emergency Operation Centre, provided for i...
One of the most highlighted benefits of using GIS in the field of disaster risk reduction is to visualize the disaster-related information. It helps citizens to understand the post-disaster situation, disaster prone areas, and so forth for better decision making and countermeasure actions. However, GIS has not been utilized yet to visualize efficie...
