Social media tools are integrated in most parts of our daily lives, as citizens, netizens,
researchers or emergency responders. Lessons learnt from disasters and emergencies that …

Social media platforms provide active communication channels during mass convergence
and emergency events such as disasters caused by natural hazards. As a result, first …

Social media is an invaluable source of time-critical information during a crisis. However,
emergency response and humanitarian relief organizations that would like to use this …

Sentiment analysis techniques are increasingly used to grasp reactions from social media
users to unexpected and potentially stressful social events. This paper argues that …

Food crises imply responses that are not what people and organisations would normally do,
if one or more threats (health, economic, etc.) were not present. At an individual level, this …

Classification of evolving data streams is a challenging task, which is suitably tackled with
online learning approaches. Data is processed instantly requiring the learning machinery to …

Twitter has become the major source of data for the research community working on the
social computing domain. The microblogging site receives millions of tweets every day on its …

During disaster events such as floods, landslides, earthquakes, tsunamis, fire hazards, etc.,
social media platforms provide easy and timely access to information regarding the ongoing …

Abstract Information and Communication Technologies (ICTs) are nowadays an interactive
means through which humans respond to potentially stressful extreme events (eg, natural or …

The convergence of social networking and mobile media technology is shifting the way how
people communicate and gain or share information. People are using social media to a …