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The paper was suggested by a brief note of the second author about the application of the Hubbert curve to predict decay of resource exploitation. A further suggestion came from the interpretation of the Hubbert curve in terms of a specific…

Populations and Evolution · Quantitative Biology 2022-09-07 Enrico Canuto , Daniele Mazza

The statistical properties of human mobility have been studied in the framework of complex systems physics. Taking advantage from the new datasets made available by the information and communication technologies, the distributions of…

Physics and Society · Physics 2024-10-03 Chiara Mizzi , Alessandro Fabbri , Giulio Colombini , Flavio Bertini , Armando Bazzani

Urban mobility models are essential tools for understanding and forecasting how people and goods move within cities, which is vital for transportation planning. The spatial scale at which urban mobility is analysed is a crucial determinant…

Physics and Society · Physics 2026-03-06 Rakhi Manohar Mepparambath , Hoai Nguyen Huynh

Assuming that the natural gauge group of gravity is given by the group of isometries of a given space, for a maximally symmetric space we derive a model in which gravity is essentially a gauge theory of translations. Starting from first…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2011-05-05 J. Julve , A. Tiemblo

The nature of gravity is fundamental to our understanding of our own solar system, the galaxy and the structure and evolution of the Universe. Einstein's general theory of relativity is the standard model that is used for almost ninety…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2007-05-23 Orfeu Bertolami , Jorge Paramos , Slava G. Turyshev

Accurate modeling of human mobility is critical for tackling urban planning and public health challenges. In undeveloped regions, the absence of comprehensive travel surveys necessitates reconstructing mobility networks from publicly…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2026-04-28 Jinming Yang , Shaoyu Huang , Zongyuan Huang , Yaohui Jin , Xiaokang Yang , Marta C. Gonzalez , Yanyan Xu

We introduce a simple and generic model that reproduces Zipf's law. By regarding the time evolution of the model as a random walk in the logarithmic scale, we explain theoretically why this model reproduces Zipf's law. The explanation shows…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2009-11-07 Kenji Kawamura , Naomichi Hatano

Many aspects of life are associated with places of human mobility patterns and nowadays we are facing an increase in the pervasiveness of mobile devices these individuals carry. Positioning technologies that serve these devices such as the…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2019-09-26 Thiago Andrade , Brais Cancela , João Gama

In this paper, we investigate the economic mobility in some money transfer models which have been applied into the research on wealth distribution. We demonstrate the mobility by recording the time series of agents' ranks and observing…

Physics and Society · Physics 2009-11-11 Ning Ding , Ning Xi , Yougui Wang

A unifying graph theoretic framework for the modelling of metro transportation networks is proposed. This is achieved by first introducing a basic graph framework for the modelling of the London underground system from a diffusion law point…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-05-12 Bruno Scalzo Dees , Yao Lei Xu , Anthony G. Constantinides , Danilo P. Mandic

This research introduces a mathematical framework to comprehending human mobility patterns, integrating mathematical modeling and economic analysis. The study focuses on latent-variable networks, investigating the dynamics of human mobility…

Physics and Society · Physics 2023-07-27 Fabio Vanni

A key question in evolution is how likely a mutant is to take over. This depends on natural selection and on stochastic fluctuations. Population spatial structure can impact mutant fixation probabilities. We introduce a model for structured…

Populations and Evolution · Quantitative Biology 2021-11-23 Loïc Marrec , Irene Lamberti , Anne-Florence Bitbol

We study a general mass transport model on an arbitrary graph consisting of $L$ nodes each carrying a continuous mass. The graph also has a set of directed links between pairs of nodes through which a stochastic portion of mass, chosen from…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2007-05-23 M. R. Evans , Satya N. Majumdar , R. K. P. Zia

High-quality human mobility data is crucial for applications such as urban planning, transportation management, and public health, yet its collection is often hindered by privacy concerns and data scarcity-particularly in less-developed…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2025-12-19 Yuan Yuan , Yuheng Zhang , Jingtao Ding , Yong Li

The rank-size plots of a large number of different physical and socio-economic systems are usually said to follow Zipf's law, but a unique framework for the comprehension of this ubiquitous scaling law is still lacking. Here we show that a…

Physics and Society · Physics 2021-02-03 Giordano De Marzo , Andrea Gabrielli , Andrea Zaccaria , Luciano Pietronero

Recently, with the availability of various traffic datasets, human mobility has been studied in different contexts. Researchers attempt to understand the collective behaviors of human movement with respect to the spatio-temporal…

Physics and Society · Physics 2016-06-06 Biao Leng , Yali Cui , Jianyuan Wang , Zhang Xiong , Shlomo Havlin , Daqing Li

Understanding human mobility from a microscopic point of view may represent a fundamental breakthrough for the development of a statistical physics for cognitive systems and it can shed light on the applicability of macroscopic statistical…

Physics and Society · Physics 2015-01-12 Riccardo Gallotti , Armando Bazzani , Mirko Degli Esposti , Sandro Rambaldi

We investigate a model for spatial epidemics explicitly taking into account bi-directional movements between base and destination locations on individual mobility networks. We provide a systematic analysis of generic dynamical features of…

Physics and Society · Physics 2012-03-07 Vitaly Belik , Theo Geisel , Dirk Brockmann

This paper investigates whether the gravity model (GM) can explain the statistical properties of the International Trade Network (ITN). We fit data on international-trade flows with a GM specification using alternative fitting techniques…

General Finance · Quantitative Finance 2011-12-14 Marco Duenas , Giorgio Fagiolo

For past several decades, research efforts in population modelling has proven its efficacy in understanding the basic information about residential and commercial areas, as well as for the purposes of planning, development and improvement…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2016-06-29 Gautam S. Thakur , Kevin A. Sparks , Robert N. Stewart , Marie L. Urban , Budhendra L. Bhaduri