Crowdsourcing tools for disaster management : a review of platforms and methods
Poblet, Marta (Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona. Institut de Dret i Tecnologia)
García-Cuesta, Esteban (ISOCO Plastics Technology)
Casanovas, Pompeu (Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona. Institut de Dret i Tecnologia)

Imprint:	Berlin Springer 2014
Abstract:	Recent advances on information technologies and communica-tions, coupled with the advent of the social media applications have fuelled a new landscape of emergency and disaster response systems by enabling affect-ed citizens to generate georeferenced real time information on critical events. The identification and analysis of such events is not straightforward and the ap-plication of crowdsourcing methods or automatic tools is needed for that pur-pose. Whereas crowdsourcing makes emphasis on the resources of people to produce, aggregate, or filter original data, automatic tools make use of infor-mation retrieval techniques to analyze publicly available information. This pa-per reviews a set of online tools and platforms implemented in recent years which are currently being applied in the area of emergency management and proposes a taxonomy for its categorization.
Grants:	Ministerio de Economía y Competitividad IPT-2012-0968-390000 Ministerio de Economía y Competitividad DER2012-39492-CO2-01
Rights:	Tots els drets reservats.
Language:	Anglès
Series:	Lecture notes in computer science. Lecture notes in artificial intelligence ; 4884
Document:	Capítol de llibre ; Versió acceptada per publicar
Subject:	Emergency management ; Disaster management ; Crowdsourcing ; Crowdsensing ; Micro-tasking ; Platforms ; Mobile apps
Published in:	AI Approaches to the Complexity of Legal Systems : AICOL 2013 InternationalWorkshops, AICOL-IV@IVR Belo Horizonte, Brazil, July 21-27, 2013 and AICOL-V@SINTELNET-JURIX Bologna, Italy, December 11, 2013 Revised Selected Papers, 2014, p. 261-274, ISBN 9783662459591

DOI: 10.1007/978-3-662-45960-7_19

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