Social Web mining and exploitation for serious applications: Technosocial Predictive Analytics and related technologies for public health, environmental and national security surveillance

Computer Methods and Programs in Biomedicine

Volumn 100, Issue 1, 2010, Pages 16-23

  Kamel Boulos, Maged N ^a   Sanfilippo, Antonio P ^b   Corley, Courtney D ^b   Wheeler, Steve ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PLYMOUTH   (United Kingdom)

^b PACIFIC NORTHWEST NATIONAL LABORATORY   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF PLYMOUTH   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Disease surveillance; Social Web; Technosocial Predictive Analytics; Web 2.0

Indexed keywords

BLOGGING; COHERENT REPRESENTATIONS; COMMONLY USED; DISEASE SURVEILLANCE; EXPONENTIAL GROWTH; GAIN INSIGHT; HEALTH PROFESSIONALS; HEALTH STATUS; MASHUPS; NATIONAL SECURITY; OPEN ARCHITECTURE; PREDICTIVE ANALYTICS; PUBLIC HEALTH; SOCIAL NETWORKING SITES; SOCIAL WEB; SOCIAL WEBS; WEB 2.0;

COMPUTER ARCHITECTURE; MONITORING; WORLD WIDE WEB;

HEALTH;

ARTICLE; BIOMEDICINE; CLIMATE CHANGE; COMPUTER SECURITY; ECONOMIC ASPECT; HEALTH SURVEY; INTERNET; POLICY; PUBLIC HEALTH; SOCIAL LIFE; WEB BROWSER;

BLOGGING; DATA MINING; GREAT BRITAIN; HUMANS; INTERNET; POPULATION SURVEILLANCE; PUBLIC HEALTH; SECURITY MEASURES; USER-COMPUTER INTERFACE;

EID: 77956012671     PISSN: 01692607     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.cmpb.2010.02.007     Document Type: Article

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