Early warning of impending oil crises using the predictive power of online news stories

Proceedings of the Annual Hawaii International Conference on System Sciences

Volumn , Issue , 2013, Pages 1512-1521

  Wex, Felix ^a   Widder, Natascha ^a   Liebmann, Michael ^a   Neumann, Dirk ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF FREIBURG   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CRUDE OIL MARKET; EARLY WARNING; EARLY WARNING SYSTEM; ECONOMIC CRISIS; EXTREME EVENTS; NATURAL DISASTERS; PREDICTIVE POWER; PRICE FLUCTUATION;

ALGORITHMS; ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE; COMMERCE; CRUDE OIL; DECISION SUPPORT SYSTEMS; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; SYSTEMS SCIENCE;

DATA MINING;

EID: 84875505289     PISSN: 15301605     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/HICSS.2013.186     Document Type: Conference Paper

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