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Type Conference or Workshop Paper
Scope Discipline-based scholarship
Published in Proceedings Yes
Title Smog disaster forecasting using social web data and physical sensor data
Organization Unit
Authors
  • Jiaoyan Chen
  • Huajun Chen
  • Daning Hu
  • Jeff Z. Pan
  • Yalin Zhou
Presentation Type paper
Item Subtype Original Work
Refereed Yes
Status Published in final form
Language
  • English
ISBN 978-1-4799-9926-2
Page Range 991 - 998
Event Title 2015 IEEE International Conference on Big Data (Big Data)
Event Type conference
Event Location Santa Clara, CA, USA
Event Start Date November 29 - 2015
Event End Date December 1 - 2015
Publisher IEEE
Abstract Text Smog disaster is a type of air pollution event that negatively affects people's life and health. Forecasting smog disasters may largely reduce potential loss that they may cause. However, it is a great challenge since smog disasters are often caused by many complex factors. With the availability of huge amounts of data from the social web and physical sensors, covering information of air quality, meteorology, social event, human mobility, people's opinion, etc., it becomes possible to utilize such big data to forecast smog disasters. Especially, we can investigate the effect of social activities in smog disaster forecasting with the help of social web, which is ignored in traditional studies. In this paper, we propose a big data approach named B-Smog for smog disaster forecasting. It mainly has two components: 1) features extraction from multiple data sources to model the factors that indicate the appearance or disappearance of a smog disaster like traffic condition, human mobility, weather condition and air pollution transportation; 2) learning and predicting with heterogeneous features in multiple views. For the second component, we propose a prediction model based on an ensemble learning framework and artificial neural networks (ANNs), which achieves high accuracy in this application and can also be applied to other similar problems. We present the effectiveness of B-Smog through two cases studies in Beijing and Shanghai, and evaluate the accuracy of the prediction model through comparing it with some baselines. Moreover, the empirical findings of our study can also support decision making in smog disaster management.
Digital Object Identifier 10.1109/BigData.2015.7363850
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