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A Methodology for enhancing Emergency Situational Awareness through Social Media

Authors:

Antonios Karteris,

Georgios Tzanos,

Lazaros Papadopoulos,

Konstantinos Demestichas,

Dimitrios Soudris,

Juliette Pauline Philibert,

Carlos López GómezAuthors Info & Claims

ARES '22: Proceedings of the 17th International Conference on Availability, Reliability and Security

Article No.: 130, Pages 1 - 7

https://doi.org/10.1145/3538969.3544418

Published: 23 August 2022 Publication History

Abstract

Social media are a valuable source of information during emergency situations. First responders and rescue teams can further improve their situation awareness and be able to act more effectively, when using information available in the form of social media posts made from the public. This work proposes a methodology supported by a toolflow, which combines machine learning techniques for identifying informative Twitter posts about ongoing incidents of various types, with a semi-automated way of dispatching information to first responders. Evaluation results show that the accuracy of detecting informative text and images posted on Twitter about ongoing emergency situations, exceeds 80%, while analysis performance is near real-time.

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A Methodology for enhancing Emergency Situational Awareness through Social Media
1. Computing methodologies
  1. Machine learning
2. Information systems
  1. Information systems applications

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Papadopoulos LDemestichas KMuñoz-Navarro EHernández-Montesinos JPaul SMuseux NKönig SSchauer SAlarcón ALlopis IStelkens-Kobsch THadjina TLevak J(2024)Protection of critical infrastructures from advanced combined cyber and physical threatsInternational Journal of Critical Infrastructure Protection10.1016/j.ijcip.2023.10065744:COnline publication date: 16-May-2024
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Schauer SHadjina TDamjanovic MMuñoz Navarro EHernandez Montesinos JHingant Gómez JPapadopoulos L(2023)Detecting a Complex Attack Scenario in an Airport: The PRAETORIAN FrameworkProceedings of the 18th International Conference on Availability, Reliability and Security10.1145/3600160.3605095(1-7)Online publication date: 29-Aug-2023
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