Social media as a source of sensing to study city dynamics and urban social behavior: Approaches, models, and opportunities

Lecture Notes in Computer Science (including subseries Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence and Lecture Notes in Bioinformatics)

Volumn 8329 LNAI, Issue , 2013, Pages 63-87

  Silva, Thiago H ^a   Vaz De Melo, Pedro Olmo S ^a   Almeida, Jussara M ^a   Loureiro, Antonio A F ^a  

^a FEDERAL UNIVERSITY OF MINAS GERAIS   (Brazil)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

HIGH COSTS; MARK WEISER; PARTICIPATORY SENSING; SOCIAL BEHAVIOR; SOCIAL MEDIA; SOCIAL MEDIA WEBSITES; WIRELESS SENSOR NETWORK (WSNS);

SENSORS; UBIQUITOUS COMPUTING; WIRELESS SENSOR NETWORKS;

DYNAMICS;

EID: 84893742837     PISSN: 03029743     EISSN: 16113349     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1007/978-3-642-45392-2_4     Document Type: Conference Paper

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