• DocumentCode
    576570
  • Title

    Agent-based rumor spreading models for human geography applications

  • Author

    Zare, Alina ; Fields, Zachary ; Keller, James M. ; Horton, J.

  • fYear
    2012
  • fDate
    22-27 July 2012
  • Firstpage
    5394
  • Lastpage
    5397
  • Abstract
    Communication has a large impact on the outcome of a population´s response during disaster scenarios. The ability of a population to access news and disaster relief information as well as the population´s perception of the information they receive effects behavior during a disaster scenario. In this paper, two agent-based rumor (information) spreading models are developed to study the spread of information during disaster scenarios. The disaster scenario studied in this paper is the evacuation of an island population to shelters.
  • Keywords
    behavioural sciences; disasters; social sciences; agent-based rumor spreading model; disaster relief information access; disaster scenario; evacuation; human geography applications; information spreading model; island population; news access; population behavior; population perception; population response; shelter; Communities; Educational institutions; Humans; Roads; Social network services; Sociology; Statistics;
  • fLanguage
    English
  • Publisher
    ieee
  • Conference_Titel
    Geoscience and Remote Sensing Symposium (IGARSS), 2012 IEEE International
  • Conference_Location
    Munich
  • ISSN
    2153-6996
  • Print_ISBN
    978-1-4673-1160-1
  • Electronic_ISBN
    2153-6996
  • Type

    conf

  • DOI
    10.1109/IGARSS.2012.6352387
  • Filename
    6352387