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Recent availability of geo-localized data capturing individual human activity together with the statistical data on international migration opened up unprecedented opportunities for a study on global mobility. In this paper we consider it…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2016-01-22 Alexander Belyi , Iva Bojic , Stanislav Sobolevsky , Izabela Sitko , Bartosz Hawelka , Lada Rudikova , Alexander Kurbatski , Carlo Ratti

The influence of commuting in socio-economic dynamics increases constantly. Analysing and modelling the networks formed by commuters to help decision-making regarding the land-use has become crucial. This paper presents a simple spatial…

Physics and Society · Physics 2020-03-10 Floriana Gargiulo , Maxime Lenormand , Sylvie Huet , Omar Baqueiro Espinosa

We introduce a general modeling framework to predict the outcomes, at the population level, of individual psychology and behavior. The framework prescribes that researchers build a cost function that embodies knowledge of what trait values…

Physics and Society · Physics 2007-05-23 Pierluigi Contucci , Stefano Ghirlanda

The steady growth of digitized historical information is continuously stimulating new different approaches to the fields of Digital Humanities and Computational Social Science. In this work, we use Natural Language Processing techniques to…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2019-12-17 Lorenzo Lucchini , Sara Tonelli , Bruno Lepri

In this paper we develop a methodology to analyze and compare multiple global networks. We focus our analysis on the relation between human migration and trade. First, we identify the subset of products for which the presence of a community…

Physics and Society · Physics 2015-02-24 Paolo Sgrignoli , Rodolfo Metulini , Stefano Schiavo , Massimo Riccaboni

High skill labour is an important factor underpinning the competitive advantage of modern economies. Therefore, attracting and retaining scientists has become a major concern for migration policy. In this work, we study the migration of…

Physics and Society · Physics 2022-02-15 Giacomo Vaccario , Luca Verginer , Frank Schweitzer

Modelling migration is complicated, as people move for many reasons. Some leave their country for the first time, others return to places they once called home, or move on to new destinations. However, most models focus only on who arrives,…

Physics and Society · Physics 2025-11-25 Carsten Källner , Ola Ali , Andrea Vismara , Guillermo Prieto-Viertel , Rafael Prieto-Curiel

Despite the popular narrative that the United States is a "land of mobility," the country may have become a "rooted America" after a decades-long decline in migration rates. This article interrogates the lingering question about the social…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2023-12-12 Peng Huang , Carter T. Butts

This study models cross-national attitudes towards immigrants in East and Southeast Asia as a signed and weighted bipartite network of countries and evaluative reactions to a variety of political issues, or determinants. This network is…

Physics and Society · Physics 2020-04-10 Rachael Kei Kawasaki , Yuichi Ikeda

We present results of the prisoner's dilemma game on complex networks that have population change. We introduce a death process with minimum requirements and show that it induces a highly cooperative society. We also study the effects of…

Physics and Society · Physics 2018-11-08 Wonhee Jeong , Unjong Yu

This paper deals into the long-term behavior of subordinated critical branching processes with migration. We focus on scenarios where emigration is the dominant factor and introduce additional randomness in timing through a subordination…

Probability · Mathematics 2025-09-16 George P. Yanev

Migration the main process shaping patterns of human settlement within and between countries. It is widely acknowledged to be integral to the process of human development as it plays a significant role in enhancing educational outcomes. At…

General Economics · Economics 2018-12-24 Aude Bernard , Martin Bell

Populations exhibiting partial migration consist of two groups of individuals: Those that mi- grate between habitats, and those that remain fixed in a single habitat. We propose several discrete-time population models to investigate the…

Dynamical Systems · Mathematics 2016-10-31 Anushaya Mohapatra , Haley A. Ohms , David A. Lytle , Patrick De Leenheer

Due to its significance in the recommendation system and community operations, user migration has garnered the interest of cyber-demography experts from numerous disciplines. However, contemporary research frequently overlooks the theory…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2023-08-04 FangYiKuang Ding , Yang Li

Most agent-based models include a social network that describes the structure of interactions within the artificial population. Because of the dramatic impact of this structure on the simulated dynamics, modelers create this network for it…

Physics and Society · Physics 2020-02-11 Samuel Thiriot

The complexity of human behaviour can lead to very unpredictable patterns in social activity and structure. Here we demonstrate the instability of a community network controlled by majority ruling, where an element adopts the most popular…

Cellular Automata and Lattice Gases · Physics 2016-05-17 V. F. Kusmartsev , F. V. Kusmartsev

The small-world phenomenon has been already the subject of a huge variety of papers, showing its appeareance in a variety of systems. However, some big holes still remain to be filled, as the commonly adopted mathematical formulation…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2009-11-07 Vito Latora , Massimo Marchiori

Social movements, neurons in the brain or even industrial suppliers are best described by agents evolving on networks with basic interaction rules. In these real systems, the connectivity between agents corresponds to the a critical state…

Physics and Society · Physics 2007-05-23 Philippe Curty

We propose a dynamical process for network evolution, aiming at explaining the emergence of the small world phenomenon, i.e., the statistical observation that any pair of individuals are linked by a short chain of acquaintances computable…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2008-03-04 Augustin Chaintreau , Pierre Fraigniaud , Emmanuelle Lebhar

The spatial organization of individuals and their interactions in communities are important factors known to preserve diversity in many complex systems. Inspired by metapopulation models from ecology, we study opinion formation using a…

Physics and Society · Physics 2026-05-19 Tim Mauch , Thilo Gross