Improving situational awareness for humanitarian logistics through predictive modeling

2014 IEEE Systems and Information Engineering Design Symposium, SIEDS 2014

Volumn , Issue , 2014, Pages 334-339

  Racette, Mark P ^a   Smith, Christopher T ^a   Cunningham, Michael P ^a   Heekin, Thomas A ^a   Lemley, Joseph P ^a   Mathieu, Richard S ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF VIRGINIA   (United States)

Author keywords

GDELT; humanitarian; predictive models; statistical analysis

Indexed keywords

COMMUNICATION; DATABASE SYSTEMS; DECISION TREES; DISASTERS; MEAN SQUARE ERROR; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; STATISTICAL METHODS;

DAMAGED INFRASTRUCTURE; GDELT; HUMANITARIAN; HUMANITARIAN LOGISTICS; NATURAL AND MAN-MADE DISASTERS; PREDICTIVE MODELS; RECEIVER OPERATING CHARACTERISTIC CURVES; SITUATIONAL AWARENESS;

LOGISTICS;

EID: 84903699244     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/SIEDS.2014.6829918     Document Type: Conference Paper

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