Spectral clustering for sensing urban land use using Twitter activity

Engineering Applications of Artificial Intelligence

Volumn 35, Issue , 2014, Pages 237-245

  Frias Martinez, Vanessa ^a   Frias Martinez, Enrique ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MARYLAND   (United States)

^b TELEFONICA RESEARCH   (Spain)

Author keywords

Crowd behavior; Land use detection; Spectral clustering; Urban computing

Indexed keywords

BEHAVIORAL RESEARCH; SOCIAL NETWORKING (ONLINE); URBAN PLANNING;

ACTIVITY PATTERNS; CROWD BEHAVIOR; MOBILE SOCIAL MEDIAS; PLANNING APPLICATIONS; SPECTRAL CLUSTERING; URBAN AREAS; URBAN COMPUTING; URBAN LAND USE;

LAND USE;

EID: 84906100197     PISSN: 09521976     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.engappai.2014.06.019     Document Type: Article

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