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Social Networks in Emergency Response

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Collective response; Communication Network; Data mining; Disaster; Emergency; Event detection; Spatiotemporal analysis; Social networks.

Glossary

Emergency :

An unexpected and often dangerous situation, typically affecting multiple individuals and requiring immediate action

Social and Communication Networks :

Networks of people interacting with each other through web-based (e.g., Twitter) and mobile-based (e.g., mobile phone) technologies

Social Media :

Web-based tools that enable people to communicate and interact with each other in various media forms including text and multimedia. Examples of these tools include emails, instant messengers (IM), blogs, microblogs (e.g., Twitter), vlogs (e.g., YouTube), podcasts, forum, wikis, social news (e.g., Digg), social bookmarking (e.g., Delicious), and social networks (e.g., Facebook, MySpace, and LinkedIn)

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Modern datasets derived from telecommunication technologies such as online social media and mobile phone systems offer...

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Authors and Affiliations

  1. Kellogg School of Management, Northwestern University, Evanston, IL, 60208, USA

    Dashun Wang

  2. Northwestern Institute on Complex Systems (NICO), Northwestern University, Evanston, IL, 60208, USA

    Dashun Wang

  3. School of Information Sciences, University of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, PA, USA

    Yu-Ru Lin

  4. Mathematics and Statistics & Vermont Complex Systems Center, University of Vermont, Burlington, VT, USA

    James P. Bagrow

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  1. Computer Science, University of Calgary, Calgary, Alberta, Canada

    Reda Alhajj

  2. University of Calgary Computer Science, Calgary, Canada

    Jon Rokne

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  1. Universidad Politécnica de Madrid, Madrid, Spain

    Rosa M. Benito

  2. Universidad Politécnica de Madrid, Madrid, Spain

    Juan Carlos Losada

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Wang, D., Lin, YR., Bagrow, J.P. (2016). Social Networks in Emergency Response. In: Alhajj, R., Rokne, J. (eds) Encyclopedia of Social Network Analysis and Mining. Springer, New York, NY. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4614-7163-9_293-1

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