Predicting disease transmission from geo-tagged micro-blog data

Proceedings of the National Conference on Artificial Intelligence

Volumn 1, Issue , 2012, Pages 136-142

  Sadilek, Adam ^a   Kautz, Henry ^a   Silenzio, Vincent ^b  

^a University of Rochester   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ROCHESTER SCHOOL OF MEDICINE AND DENTISTRY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AGGREGATE PROPERTIES; DISEASE TRANSMISSION; GENERAL DYNAMICS; GLOBAL EPIDEMIC; HIGH PRECISION; INCOMPLETE DATA; MICRO-BLOG; NON-COOPERATIVE; PROBABILISTIC MODELS; SOCIAL NETWORKS; SOCIAL TIES;

ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE; SOCIAL NETWORKING (ONLINE);

FORECASTING;

EID: 84868268429     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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