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The chapter is for solving different societal problems in distributed systems, naming typical ones and introducing a new trend in the field called Human Terrain which stems from military but may have important applications in civil areas too. Many problems can be investigated using social networks effectively represented and processed in SGL. The shown cases are influenced by theoretical tasks from the previous chapter; they also consider finding topological center of a community and regular checking physical distance between such centers of different communities, alarming if a certain threshold reached. Tracing movement of elderly people in large urban environments with emergency medical support, also distributed relief solutions after crises or disasters, including guided collective evacuation from a disaster zone, are exhibited too.
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Sapaty, P.S. (2017). Solving Societal Problems. In: Managing Distributed Dynamic Systems with Spatial Grasp Technology. Studies in Computational Intelligence, vol 690. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-50461-2_9
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