The importance of timely, accurate and effective use of available information is essential to
the proper management of emergency situations. In recent years, emerging technologies …

The aim of this systematic review is to determine the current state of the art in the real-time
classification of user-generated content from social media. Focus is on the identification of …

Fake accounts are the primary means for misuse and abuse of social media platforms,
giving rise to coordinated inauthentic behaviors. Despite ongoing efforts to limit their …

Natural disasters are events that are difficult to avoid. There are several ways of reducing the
risks of natural disasters. One of them is implementing disaster reduction programs. There …

The advent of online social networks (OSNs) paired with the ubiquitous proliferation of
smartphones have enabled social sensing systems. In the last few years, the aptitude of …

Natural disasters are public emergencies characterized by suddenness, universality, and
nonconventionality. Realizing the early warning, monitoring, and intervention of natural …

Sinkholes are a widespread geological hazard, typical of karst lands, where they generally
originate as collapse features related to presence of underground voids. Nevertheless, other …

Recent disasters demonstrated the central role of social media during emergencies thus
motivating the exploitation of such data for crisis mapping. We propose a crisis mapping …

Situational awareness (SA) is critical to mobilizing a rapid, efficient, and effective response
to disasters. Limited by time and resources, response agencies must make decisions about …

Cyber-physical-social computing system integrates the interactions between cyber, physical,
and social spaces by fusing information from these spaces. The result of this fusion can be …