Using Analytics and Social Media for Monitoring and Mitigation of Social Disasters

Procedia Engineering

Volumn 107, Issue , 2015, Pages 325-334

  Teodorescu, Horia Nicolai ^a,b  

^a ACADEMY OF ROMANIAN SCIENTISTS   (Romania)

^b GHEORGHE ASACHI TECHNICAL UNIVERSITY OF IASI   (Romania)

Author keywords

analytics; disaster relief; emergency management; emerging technologies; humanitarian engineering; media analysis; public safety; sentiment analysis; social media; text analytics

Indexed keywords

AUTOMATION; DISASTER PREVENTION; RISK MANAGEMENT; SAFETY ENGINEERING; SOCIAL NETWORKING (ONLINE);

ANALYTICS; DISASTER RELIEF; EMERGENCY MANAGEMENT; EMERGING TECHNOLOGIES; HUMANITARIAN ENGINEERING; MEDIA ANALYSIS; PUBLIC SAFETY; SENTIMENT ANALYSIS; SOCIAL MEDIA; TEXT ANALYTICS;

DISASTERS;

EID: 84946058797     PISSN: None     EISSN: 18777058     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1016/j.proeng.2015.06.088     Document Type: Conference Paper

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