Social media data analysis in a smart city context can represent an efficacious instrument to
inform decision making. The manuscript strives to leverage the power of Natural Language …

Smart city initiatives aim at leveraging human, collective, and technological capital to ensure
sustainable development and quality of life for their citizens. Offering efficient and …

This chapter highlights the key challenges of our ongoing project in developing an
information technology solution for emergency response and management in smart cities …

Digital societies could be characterized by their increasing desire to express themselves
and interact with others. This is being realized through digital platforms such as social media …

Twitter data are a valuable source of information for rescue and helping activities in case of
natural disasters and technical accidents. Several methods for disaster‐and event‐related …

Urban development and growth have a significant impact on the environment, contributing to
ongoing climate change and affecting the resilience of urban communities. However, cities …

Social networking platforms have been widely employed to detect and track physical events
in population-dense urban areas. They can be effective tools to understand what happens …

Road transportation is the backbone of modern economies despite costing annually millions
of human deaths and injuries and trillions of dollars. Twitter is a powerful information source …

In recent years, there has been increased interest in real-world event detection using
publicly accessible data made available through Internet technology such as Twitter …

Messages on social media can be an important source of information during crisis situations.
They can frequently provide details about developments much faster than traditional sources …