Disaster management 2.0: A real-time disaster damage assessment model based on mobile social media data—A case study of Weibo (Chinese Twitter)

S Shan, F Zhao, Y Wei, M Liu - Safety science, 2019 - Elsevier
In the era of big data, could popularized social media platforms assist with urban damage
monitoring and assessment and aid disaster rescue? Before, during, and after such …

A universal opportunity model for human mobility

EJ Liu, XY Yan - Scientific reports, 2020 - nature.com
Predicting human mobility between locations has practical applications in transportation
science, spatial economics, sociology and many other fields. For more than 100 years, many …

How word-of-mouth transmission encouragement affects consumers' transmission decisions, receiver selection, and diffusion speed

AT Stephen, DR Lehmann - International Journal of Research in Marketing, 2016 - Elsevier
This research considers how marketers can encourage or “nudge” consumers to transmit
word of mouth (WOM), such as referrals or recommendations to friends, in a manner that …

Generalized radiation model for human migration

C Alis, EF Legara, C Monterola - Scientific reports, 2021 - nature.com
One of the main problems in the study of human migration is predicting how many people
will migrate from one place to another. An important model used for this problem is the …

Balancing quality and budget considerations in mobile crowdsourcing

C Miao, H Yu, Z Shen, C Leung - Decision Support Systems, 2016 - Elsevier
Mobile/spatial crowdsourcing is a class of crowdsourcing applications in which workers
travel to specific locations in order to perform tasks. As workers may possess different levels …

Mitigating herding in hierarchical crowdsourcing networks

H Yu, C Miao, C Leung, Y Chen, S Fauvel, VR Lesser… - Scientific reports, 2016 - nature.com
Hierarchical crowdsourcing networks (HCNs) provide a useful mechanism for social
mobilization. However, spontaneous evolution of the complex resource allocation dynamics …