Applications of social networks and crowdsourcing for disaster management improvement

Proceedings - SocialCom/PASSAT/BigData/EconCom/BioMedCom 2013

Volumn , Issue , 2013, Pages 213-219

  Besaleva, Liliya I ^a   Weaver, Alfred C ^a  

^a University of Virginia   (United States)

Author keywords

Crowdsourcing; Ehealth; Emergency preparedness; Mobile technologies; Triage

Indexed keywords

CROWDSOURCING; EHEALTH; EMERGENCY PREPAREDNESS; MOBILE TECHNOLOGY; TRIAGE;

CIVIL DEFENSE; DISASTER PREVENTION; DISASTERS; HUMAN RESOURCE MANAGEMENT; PATIENT TREATMENT; RISK MANAGEMENT;

INFORMATION MANAGEMENT;

EID: 84893615820     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/SocialCom.2013.38     Document Type: Conference Paper

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