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Characterizing Geo-located Tweets in Brazilian Megacities
João Pereira, Arian Pasquali, Pedro Saleiro +2
This work presents a framework for collecting, processing and mining geo-located tweets in order to extract meaningful and actionable knowledge in the context of smart cities. We c…
Transportation in Social Media: an automatic classifier for travel-related tweets
João Pereira, Arian Pasquali, Pedro Saleiro +1
In the last years researchers in the field of intelligent transportation systems have made several efforts to extract valuable information from social media streams. However, colle…
Preliminary Experiments with EVA - Serious Games Virtual Fire Drill Simulator
José Fernando M. Silva, João Emílio Almeida, António Pereira +2
Fire keeps claiming a large number of victims in building fires. Although there are ways to minimize such events, fire drills are used to train the building occupants for emergency…
Using UWB for Human Trajectory Extraction
Gonçalo Vasconcelos, Marcelo Petry, João Emílio Almeida +2
In this paper we report on a methodology to model pedestrian behaviours whilst aggregate variables are concerned, with potential applications to different situations, such as evacu…
NetLogo Implementation of an Evacuation Scenario
João Emílio Almeida, Zafeiris Kokkinogenis, Rosaldo J. F. Rossetti
The problem of evacuating crowded closed spaces, such as discotheques, public exhibition pavilions or concert houses, has become increasingly important and gained attention both fr…
Crowd Simulation Modeling Applied to Emergency and Evacuation Simulations using Multi-Agent Systems
João E. Almeida, Rosaldo J. F. Rosseti, António Leça Coelho
In recent years crowd modeling has become increasingly important both in the computer games industry and in emergency simulation. This paper discusses some aspects of what has been…