VazaDengue: An information system for preventing and combating mosquito-borne diseases with social networks

Information Systems

Volumn 75, Issue , 2018, Pages 26-42

  Sousa, Leonardo ^a   de Mello, Rafael ^a   Cedrim, Diego ^a   Garcia, Alessandro ^a   Missier, Paolo ^b   Uchôa, Anderson ^a   Oliveira, Anderson ^a   Romanovsky, Alexander ^b  

^a PONTIFICAL CATHOLIC UNIVERSITY OF RIO DE JANEIRO   (Brazil)

^b NEWCASTLE UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Dengue; Mosquito; Social media; Surveillance; Tweets

Indexed keywords

HEALTH; MONITORING; SPACE SURVEILLANCE; VIRUSES;

DENGUE; MOSQUITO; MOSQUITO BREEDING; MOSQUITO-BORNE DISEASE; NATURAL LANGUAGE TEXT; SOCIAL MEDIA; SOCIAL MEDIA NETWORKS; TWEETS;

SOCIAL NETWORKING (ONLINE);

EID: 85042885613     PISSN: 03064379     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.is.2018.02.003     Document Type: Article

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