Well-being is an important value for people's lives, and it could be considered as an index of
societal progress. Researchers have suggested two main approaches for the overall …

Social media offers participatory and collaborative structure and collective knowledge
building capacity to the public information and warning approaches. Therefore, the author …

Every year man-made and natural disasters impact the lives of millions of people. The
frequency of occurrence of such disasters is steadily increasing since the last 50 years, and …

A vast amount of location information exists in unstructured texts, such as social media
posts, news stories, scientific articles, web pages, travel blogs, and historical archives …

The recent development of big data analytics (BDA) and the Internet of Things (IoT)
technologies create a huge opportunity for both disaster management systems and disaster …

People increasingly use microblogging platforms such as Twitter during natural disasters
and emergencies. Research studies have revealed the usefulness of the data available on …

Social media posts incorporate real-time information that has, elsewhere, been exploited to
predict social trends. This paper considers whether such information can be useful in …

In recent years, Online Social Networks (OSNs) have received a great deal of attention for
their potential use in the spatial and temporal modeling of events owing to the information …

Introduction Public health is not only threatened by diseases, pandemics, or epidemics. It is
also challenged by deficits in the communication of health information. The current COVID …

Abstract Information extracted from social media has proven to be very useful in the domain
of emergency management. An important task in emergency management is rapid crisis …