Statistically modeling the effectiveness of disaster information in social media

Proceedings - 2011 IEEE Global Humanitarian Technology Conference, GHTC 2011

Volumn , Issue , 2011, Pages 431-436

  Zhu, Jiang ^a   Xiong, Fei ^b   Piao, Dongzhen ^a   Liu, Yun ^b   Zhang, Ying ^a  

^a CARNEGIE MELLON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b BEIJING JIAOTONG UNIVERSITY   (China)

Author keywords

behavior modeling; emergency response; social media

Indexed keywords

BEHAVIOR MODELING; DISASTER INFORMATION; EMERGENCY ALERT SYSTEM; EMERGENCY RESPONSE; GENERAL PUBLICS; INFORMATION CHANNELS; INFORMATION DIFFUSION; INFORMATION PROPAGATION; LOGISTIC REGRESSIONS; NETWORK INFLUENCES; OPTIMAL STRATEGIES; PREDICTIVE MODELS; RECALL AND PRECISION; SOCIAL MEDIA; TIME DECAY;

COMPUTER SIMULATION; FORECASTING; OPTIMIZATION; SOCIAL NETWORKING (ONLINE);

BEHAVIORAL RESEARCH;

EID: 84862961176     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/GHTC.2011.48     Document Type: Conference Paper

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