Personal Emergency Preparedness Plan (PEPP) Facebook App: Using cloud computing, mobile technology, and social networking services to decompress traditional channels of communication during emergencies and disasters

Proceedings - 2012 IEEE 9th International Conference on Services Computing, SCC 2012

Volumn , Issue , 2012, Pages 494-498

  Greer, Melvin B ^a   Ngo, John W ^a  

^a LOCKHEED MARTIN   (United States)

Author keywords

Cloud computing; Mobile; Social; Wireless

Indexed keywords

CLOUD COMPUTING; SOCIAL NETWORKING (ONLINE); SOCIAL SCIENCES COMPUTING; TELECOMMUNICATION EQUIPMENT;

CHANNELS OF COMMUNICATION; CLOUD-COMPUTING; EMERGENCY PREPAREDNESS PLANS; FACEBOOK; FACEBOOK APPLICATIONS; FACEBOOK APPS; MOBILE; MOBILE TECHNOLOGY; SOCIAL; SOCIAL NETWORKING SERVICES;

DISASTERS;

EID: 84867369437     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/SCC.2012.106     Document Type: Conference Paper

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