Exploring Bot Pervasiveness in Global Cities using Publicly Available Volunteered Geographic Information

Samuel Toepke

2019

Abstract

Effective crisis management and response heavily relies on up-to-date and trustworthy information. Near real-time, volunteered geographic information (VGI) has previously been shown to be instrumental during disaster response by helping direct resources, create communication channels between the affected, etc. Trustworthiness continues to be a challenge when leveraging crowd sourced data, as quality information directly impacts the effectiveness of response. Previous research has demonstrated cloud-based VGI collection, storage, presentation, and bot mitigation using open source technologies and freely available web services. Alas, the technology was deployed as a prototype for small urban areas in the United States. This research explores bot pervasiveness in several global cities that have previously suffered a catastrophic event and/or are at risk for a future crisis event. The existence of non-trustworthy information in social media data has always been a known issue, taking steps to quantify the presence of bots in Twitter data can allow an end-user to more holistically understand their dataset.

Paper Citation

in Harvard Style

Toepke S. (2019). Exploring Bot Pervasiveness in Global Cities using Publicly Available Volunteered Geographic Information.In Proceedings of the 5th International Conference on Geographical Information Systems Theory, Applications and Management - Volume 1: GISTAM, ISBN 978-989-758-371-1, pages 143-153. DOI: 10.5220/0007796701430153

in Bibtex Style

@conference{gistam19,
author={Samuel Toepke},
title={Exploring Bot Pervasiveness in Global Cities using Publicly Available Volunteered Geographic Information},
booktitle={Proceedings of the 5th International Conference on Geographical Information Systems Theory, Applications and Management - Volume 1: GISTAM,},
year={2019},
pages={143-153},
publisher={SciTePress},
organization={INSTICC},
doi={10.5220/0007796701430153},
isbn={978-989-758-371-1},
}

in EndNote Style

TY - CONF

JO - Proceedings of the 5th International Conference on Geographical Information Systems Theory, Applications and Management - Volume 1: GISTAM,
TI - Exploring Bot Pervasiveness in Global Cities using Publicly Available Volunteered Geographic Information
SN - 978-989-758-371-1
AU - Toepke S.
PY - 2019
SP - 143
EP - 153
DO - 10.5220/0007796701430153